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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2017
American Airlines, Inc., Fort Worth, TX (US);
Timothy L. Jacobs, Tempe, AZ (US);
Hadi W. Purnomo, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Owen D. Perrine, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Craig Endres, Goodyear, AZ (US);
Richard Till, Phoenix, AZ (US);
AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC., Fort Worth, TX (US);
Abstract
A system and method of generating an transparent optimized shift schedule for a plurality of crew members that includes receiving a plurality of shift bids from the plurality of crew members, with each of the shift bids to be either classified as awarded or rejected, optimizing the transparent optimized shift schedule; and presenting, to each crewmember from the plurality of crewmembers who submitted a shift bid classified as a rejected shift bid, the reason code associated with his or her rejected shift bid; wherein presenting, to each crewmember from the plurality of crewmembers who submitted a shift bid classified as a rejected shift bid, his or her shift assignment from the optimized shift schedule and a reason code associated with his or her rejected shift bid provides transparency as to why each rejected shift bid was rejected.