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Maximize Crew Productivity While Honoring Crewmember Preferences

Maximizing Crew Productivity While Minimizing CostsIf you are like most airlines, your crew-related expenses are second only to fuel costs. By utilizing the right crew-management technology you can help control these costs while also improving the working experience for your teams.

In today’s fiercely competitive environment, having a highly efficient workforce is an operational imperative. Scheduling effectively and efficiently to ensure maximum productivity while honoring crewmember preferences requires sophisticated tools.

Happy Crewmembers Are Productive Crewmembers When crewmember preferences are honored during the schedule-creation process, studies show that they will work more hours and be absent less. This creates a win–win scenario. With Sabre ® AirCentreTM Preferential Bid Manager, you can create customized schedules for each crewmember. With this solution, you can use individual preferences and avoid conflicts with pre-existing activities. This means you can reduce open flying and ensure trip coverage.

Sabre AirCentre Preferential Bid Manager

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Benefits

Reduce Costs

Airlines that switch from block or line-of-time scheduling to Preferential Bid Manager can expect the following cost-reduction benefits:

Reduce Crew Staffing Requirements Due to increased scheduling efficiency, overall crew labor cost can be reduced by 2 percent or more.

Reduce Sick Time When schedules are built using crewmember preferences, it reduces crew absences because they get more of the schedules they want. Sick time has been shown to decrease by up to 5 percent.

Reduce Open Time By 40 Percent Preferential Bid Manager eliminates schedule conflicts by building custom schedules for each crewmember, resulting in significant reduction in open time.

Reduce Overtime Flying By 24 Percent Open flying is actively managed during the award process, eliminating large stacks on holidays and weekends. This has a direct impact on the assignment of costly overtime assignments.

FeaturesPreferential Bid Manager is easy to implement and even easier for crewmembers to get the results they want.

• Full-featuredWebinterface,

• Exclusive“modelasyoubid”preferencesthat eliminate costly bidding mistakes,

• BidAwardDetailsthatexplainseveryaward in detail to each crewmember,

• Fastestawardtimeintheindustry,

• Transparentbiddingsystemthathonorscrewmember seniority.

Our Unique ExperienceAt Sabre Airline Solutions ®, our team of experts is ready to help power your progress by lowering your costs and generating more revenue for your airline. And with our comprehensive portfolio, you can market your experience, sell your product, serve your customers and operate efficiently across your entire airline.

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crewmembers bid.