Originally Posted by
MaxReheat
a. Who are these 'schedulers'? In ye olde days the program was hacked out 'in house' ie on the squadron. Don't tell me the RAF now suffers from the same affliction the airlines do ie workloads and lifestyles determined by a spotty-faced clerk who knows all the rules but never has to live with the reality and the consequences of their output.
Airlines now use some very good optimisation software for aircraft and flight crew scheduling. The days of the 'spotty-faced clerk' as you put it are well past , Maybe ASCENT could take a leaf out of that book.