The agony of manually allocating vacation periods is a thing of the past! Altitude Vacation Bidding System (VBS) automatically awards annual crewmember vacation time according to contract rules, seniority, crewmember vacation eligibility, crewmember vacation bids, and vacation period availability. A completely automated system, the Altitude VBS module provides crewmembers with the ability to bid on prime vacation slots and greatly assists planners in the awarding of crew vacations.

Global Impact

Crewmember Quality of Life
Altitude VBS provides crewmembers with the ability to express their vacation preferences - enhancing their influence on the vacation time awarded to them. Crewmembers can express the degree to which they prefer certain vacation periods through Altitude's web based crewmember interface accessible from anywhere. Because Altitude VBS also supports (when applicable) monthly re-bids for awarding vacation periods that have been freed up due to crewmembers changing categories for example, crewmembers have another opportunity to bid for prime vacation slots!

Planners become planners again
With improved vacation planning capabilities, planners can define availabilities more accurately. When used in collaboration with Altitude MPP, planners can create pre-awards that help them decide which vacation periods in accordance with contract rules should be made available. Using historical data or current data to simulate awards, planners can evaluate what availability vacation plan works best. Planners can even compare pre-awards and measure the affects of making certain availability changes.

A More Efficient Airline
With more satisfied crewmembers and more productive planners, airlines benefit from an automated and optimized vacation bidding process.

Altitude VBS is a module of:

Altitude PBS
Creates comprehensive crewmember schedules by taking crewmember preferences and all company rules into account

Altitude Manpower Planning
All manpower requirements are dynamically integrated within a single view, allowing planners to easily understand and strategically plan activities

Altitude VBS can be integrated with:

Altitude Pairing
Dynamic and flexible operations management solution that automates the development of crew pairings Automatically manages all aspects of the North American bidline process while promoting crewmember satisfaction and building the highest quality of lines

Altitude Magellan
A real-time, all encompassing crew management solution focused on day of operations.