December 6, 2017 at 1:21 pm
Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Wednesday, December 6, 2017 12:04 PMPerhaps, but we as humans have come to depend on the systems to show us errors or potential issues. As pointed out, the scheduling problem is far too vast for a human to comprehend. Also think that there are likely other managers, so any individual would assume others haven't approved vacation for too many pilots.There are business issues, but this certainly is a software issue somewhere in development that it could happen.
Sort of along the lines of my earlier comment, we need a separate program, unrelated to the planning algorithms, which just does a continuing sanity check on the big numbers (staffing, planes, etc). Anything outside the overall boundaries should flag management attention.
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