The personnel tour-scheduling problems commonly encountered in the services industry involve the determination of work and nonwork days during the week and the efficient distribution of workdays and daily shift schedules to employees across a weekly planning period. These problems are especially difficult in airline companies, which are actively pursuing measures to boost their productivity and profitability. Two modules are developed for enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of personnel tour scheduling under environmental conditions existing in airline ground stations. The other module is a local search heuristic based on simulated annealing that is designed to improve initial tour-scheduling solutions. In any company there are problems that occur.
Scheduling seems to be one of the one listed at the top.
No matter what system you are using there is always a better, fast, and more efficient way to do it. If the contract is ratified, the system will probably be adjusted to make its guidelines less strict and make more practical and feasible schedules for the pilots. As Opt Technologies in May of 1998, it though the pilots would welcome it the same way fliers at Trans World Airlines, Delta Airlines and Air Canada had. The system ended up sending pilots on circuitous and head-spinning routes that they found physically exhausting. If the union contract is approved, a new Scheduling Improvement Group will be set up with two pilot and two company representatives who will meet each month to work out final adjustments to the scheduling, said Bob Clement, a union spokesman.