Crew Portal Bid, TtT

Course Description

Audience
This course is for anyone who will train crew in Crew Portal Bid or act as an Crew Portal Bid contact for crew. For example pilots, cabin crew, union representatives, rostering planners, planning managers and trainers.

Prerequisites
None

Duration
Approximately 14-18 hours, divided on set up time and 3 different course sessions:

• Session I is prior to first bidding, covering the Bid GUI, the Bid model and Roster Reasoning
• Session II after first publication, discussing feedback after bidding, covering Roster Reasoning
• Session II a few months after production start, Roster Reasoning continued… & lessons learned Crew reaction on Bid & Bid training

Course goals
This course gives you a deep understanding of Crew Portal Bid, the bid types and the bidding rules, as well as a basic understanding of rosters and max roster construction. The course addresses the change involved in introducing a new bidding system.

The first session is held before trainers need to go out and train crew. Session II is held after first mock bids to follow up the results of the first bidding with the trainers to ensure that crew questions can be handled and session III is held 2-6 months after the system has been take in production.

Course topics

• Planning process
  
  
• Basic bidding
  
  
• PBS–model
  
  
• Crew Portal Bid – the crew interface
  
  
• Optimization
  
  
• Bid ratio concept
  
  
• Bid tactics
  
  
• Discuss best use of training for example how to meet crews questions or do we need to put more time in explaining the system