🛫 Aviation · Gantt
Airline Crew Scheduling Timeline
A monthly crew planning cycle for an airline: pairing construction, bidding, roster publishing and day-of-operations changes.
Drawing diagram…
What this diagram shows
- Pairings are built from the flight schedule first
- Crew bid on preferences before rosters are optimised
- Rosters are published before the month starts
Prompt used
Gantt chart of a monthly crew scheduling cycle: schedule freeze, pairing (trip) construction, legality checks against duty-time rules, crew bidding window, roster optimisation, roster review and publishing, crew swaps and trades, then day-of-operations crew tracking during the month.
Mermaid code
gantt title Crew Scheduling Cycle for November dateFormat YYYY-MM-DD axisFormat %d %b section Planning Schedule freeze :a1, 2026-10-01, 3d Pairing construction :a2, after a1, 7d Duty-time legality checks :a3, after a2, 3d section Rostering Crew bidding window :b1, after a3, 5d Roster optimisation :b2, after b1, 3d Review and publish rosters :b3, after b2, 2d Swaps and trades :b4, after b3, 7d section Operations Day-of-ops crew tracking :c1, 2026-11-01, 30d
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