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Guides for crew planners
Regulation, rostering methods and day-to-day operations: the questions crew planners actually ask, answered without the sales pitch.
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Regulations
FAA Part 117 vs EASA ORO.FTL: flight time limitations compared
Scope, FDP tables, rest, weekly rhythm and extensions: the two regimes side by side, checked against the rule text, and what each means for rostering.
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Operations
Rostering crews across multiple ACMI contracts
One crew pool, several coverage commitments: six principles for rostering ACMI contracts in parallel without duplicating headcount.
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Operations
Block hours and crew utilisation in ACMI: making the guarantee pay
Why crew, not the aircraft, caps ACMI output, the three gaps between theoretical and real capacity, and how to improve utilisation.
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Operations
Cutting delays with a resilient crew roster
Tight turnarounds, duty limits, aircraft-crew coupling: how a roster propagates delay, and where slack actually earns its keep.
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Regulations
FRMS and fatigue risk management: beyond the FTL limits
What ORO.FTL actually requires on fatigue, how models and scales measure it, and how to build fatigue rules into roster generation.
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Research
Firefighting: why 88% of operators react instead of plan
Disruption frequency does not separate operators; what their roster absorbs does. The 2026 benchmark figures, and four indicators to track.
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Operations
The business aviation pilot shortage: rostering before hiring
The global shortage has eased, the strain on operators has not: how rostering frees hidden capacity and keeps the pilots you have.
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Reference
Crew pairing vs crew rostering
One builds anonymous trips from the flight schedule, the other puts names on them. Two optimisation problems, and why not every operator needs both.
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Operations
Roster optimisation for regional airlines
Many sectors, several bases, rotations that must close and knock-on delay: the levers that make a regional roster hold up in operation.
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Operations
Crew disruption management: recover a roster in minutes
How one sick call spreads through a roster, the recovery levers and what they really cost, and the four conditions for recovering in minutes.
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Operations
Medevac crew scheduling: 24/7 cover without burnout
Standby shifts, night missions, flight and medical crews to pair, and a regulatory regime moving to Subpart FTL (B) in 2028.
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Operations
Charter crew rostering: planning without a schedule
ON/OFF patterns, computed availability, optimised assignment and fast re-generation, plus the FTL line between charter and air taxi.
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Regulations
EASA FTL rules (ORO.FTL): a crew planner's guide
The cumulative limits, the FDP table, extensions and rest requirements, read from the seat of the person who builds the roster.
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Research
The 2026 crew management benchmark: 10 key findings
What 30 business aviation operators say about crewing headcount, rostering models, freelance reliance and preference handling, in ten figures.
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Comparison
Optimization add-on vs all-in-one suite: which to choose?
Scope, optimization depth, lead time, project risk and vendor count: the two models compared, and where each one wins.
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Comparison
Excel vs crew scheduling software: when to make the switch
What a spreadsheet still does well, where it breaks, and the seven signs that the file has become more expensive than a scheduling tool.
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Operations
AI crew roster optimization: an operations leader's guide
What the technology actually does, what it optimizes beyond feasibility, the results to expect, and the five questions to ask a vendor.
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Operations
ACMI vs wet, dry and damp lease: what's the difference?
Who provides the aircraft, the crew and the AOC in each arrangement, who pays for what, and what it changes for the roster.
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Reference
Airline crew planning glossary: 45 terms
From FDP to ACMI, the working vocabulary of crew planning: each term defined, sourced and linked to the ones around it.
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