Product Profile

Automated Trip Trading Integrated with Sabre AirCentre Crew Management Solutions

The Trip Trading Features Your Crewmembers Want — Without The HassleAs airlines struggle to reduce costs, crewmembers are demanding automated trip trading to increase schedule flexibility and quality of life. Allowing your crewmembers to trip trade, when done right, can provide all of the features that your crewmembers desire and reduce costs at the same time.

Thousands of Requests Versus Precious Few SchedulersCrewmembers can submit thousands of requests in just a few minutes when trip trading begins, overwhelming the ability of crew scheduling to process such an avalanche of requests. This stretches the capabilities of even the best run SOCs.

Sabre AirCentre Open Time Manager

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Benefits

Reduce Costs

By leveraging the automated trip trading capability in Sabre ® AirCentreTM Open Time Manager, your airline can realize the following cost reduction benefits:

Reduce Open Trips Open Time Manager can reduce the inventory of open trips where you need it most; on the day of the least reserve coverage. By constantly monitoring the balance between available reserves and open trips Open Time Manager can assign these trips to the crewmembers who want to fly them.

Reduce Reserve Head Count Trip Trading with Open Time Manager allows crewmembers to add trips to their schedules when they most desire. This overall increase in productivity reduces the need for reserve staffing, which has a direct impact on the airline’s labor costs.

Reduce Scheduling Overhead Open Time Manager eliminates wasteful manual processes by automatically handling large numbers of schedule change requests.

Increase Crewmember Satisfaction Happy crewmembers are productive crewmembers and the automated process utilized through Open Time Manager allows them to adjust

their schedule efficiently and within the established rules. When crewmembers are given a choice, they fly more and are absent less.

FeaturesFully Automated Request Processing Eliminate time-consuming and inefficient manual processing of requests with Open Time Management. This online, Web-based interface enables you to control the the entire trip-trading process. You can configure:

• Biddingopenandclosingtimes,

• Eligible-to-bidlistsincludingqualifications,

• Typesofrequestsallowed,

• Awardprocessingorder(seniorityversusfirst-come, first-served),

• Specialhandlingoptionsandmuchmore.

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.

Figure 1 Sabre AirCentre Open Time

Manager when paired with a Sabre

Airline Solutions crew management

system allows crewmember trip trading

without scheduler intervention.

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Crew Schedulers Crewmembers

Open Time ManagerCrew Management System

Trip Trade Requests

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