Pairing Optimization

Course description

Audience
This course addresses expert users with Carmen Crew Pairing experience.

Prerequisites
Pairing I and six months of experience using Carmen Crew Pairing.

Duration
2 days

Course goals
This course gives you an understanding of:

• The pairing optimizer structure
• Column Generator
• how to analyze and change the behavior of the pairing optimizer

Course topics

• Pairing optimizer components
  • generator
  • connection table
  • matcher
  • IP solver
    
    
• General generation
  • search width
  • different optimizers
  • rules and costs
    
    
• Deadheads
  • deadhead handling
  • OAG deadheads
  • deadhead improve
    
    
• Column Generator
  • basic approach
  • disclaimers
  • parameters
  • relaxed duty network
    
    
• Costs
  • structure
  • refinements
  • warnings
    
    
• Base and global constraints
  
  
• Analyzing and tuning
  
  
• Optimizer status report

All exercises are done using a generic flight data and rule set (Carmen Airlines).