Crew Pairings

• Crew efficiency, fatigue, operational robustness, crew satisfaction and

crew costs are critical objectives for any airline.

• A pairing is a sequence of connectable flight legs, within the same

fleet, that starts from and ends at the same crew base, where the
crew actually lives. A pairing is sometimes called an itinerary for the
crew assigned to this journey. It typically spans from one to five days.
To create tasks for crew members, the planners of an airline must
generate a set of pairings to cover as many flight legs in a planning
horizon as possible, with a cost as small as possible.