Preferential Bidding taken to a new level in SmartPref™

By avoiding conflicts, SmartPref™ distributes the flying efficiently and reduces the peaks and valleys produced by the unpredictable monthly 'fallout' of the bid line system. No reassignments are required, significantly reducing the administrative cost incurred in other systems.

In addition, because of its amazing speed and accuracy, SmartPref™ has the ability to produce a 'complete' solution in short order allowing crewmember bid periods to be shortened. This gives companies more time to fine tune flight schedules and aircraft gauging.

And with SmartPref™ the crewmember GUI and SysAdmin interface can be completely customized to suit your existing processes, infrastructure or future goals.

SmartPref™ is both fair and efficient

Today's economic environment requires all airlines to operate as efficiently as possible. Preferential Bidding Systems provide that efficiency. PBS uses a pairing allocation system that replaces the bid line and bid award processes of the past. This process is becoming increasingly relied upon by airlines.

PBS uses an individualized pairing allocation approach that awards trips and days off to crewmembers in seniority order, according to their preferences, their legality and availability to fly the requested trips. All while respecting system parameters. This ensures that the distribution of any open time throughout the scheduling period and crewmembers’ lines, meet minimum and maximum block and credit values.

SmartPref™ offers total bid awareness during the bidding process.

SmartPref's™ business process is so unique that it's patented. There's no other application that can provide the speed and accuracy of SmartPref™. We leverage the latest Internet technology, and use advanced mathematical modeling to move far beyond any other PBS available today.

To the crewmember, this means online bidding with visible available inventory of trips at his seniority. This equals Bid Satisfaction. Throughout the bidding process, the application updates its files from the latest entries made by all crewmembers and produces visible results that are immediately displayed. Crewmembers can view their line at any time throughout the bidding process to see if changes have occurred and if they need to adjust their bidding accordingly. The result of this approach is high crewmember satisfaction due to transparency and awareness of the results.