Airline crew scheduling automatic system

Crew scheduling is one of the most common tasks in air transportation. There is a list of specific requirements for crew planning. Crew should be balanced between load and rest periods during flight duty period and duration of recovery time. Human action is limited by its performance. Increased load of a person without a required period of recovery will increase multiple risks associated with human factor in civil aviation. Therefore, after each flight which is associated with flight duty period, crew have to spend some time for recovery (which includes acclimatization and rest periods). International aviation community developed a list of specific requirements for the duration of flight duty period and required time for crew recovery. Airlines have to follow all these requirements to provide safe air transportation services. In the paper, we propose an algorithm for an automatic crew scheduling system based on effective time distribution. A history of flight duty periods assigned to a particular crew member has been accumulated and used as input data. The algorithm provides effective crew planning of airlines based on normative regulations provided in different countries. Specific software has been developed to verify proposed model of airline crew planning tasks.