AD OPT Solutions Suite

More than 50,000 airline crew members, planners, and managers from around the world use AD OPT every day

AD OPT is a completely customized suite of airline crew planning, management, and optimization solutions that adapt to your operational processes. By evaluating your current business processes, our airline specialists work to simplify your business operations, maximize your productivity, and increase your efficiency.

Because they are built using a customer-centric philosophy, AD OPT solutions solve real-world problems for airlines and their employees. The AD OPT suite can help you:

  • Achieve more effective resource planning and higher returns
  • Reduce operational costs and improve profitability
  • Streamline the planning process
  • Attain an efficiently deployed crew

Automate and optimize for operational efficiency

The AD OPT solutions suite delivers enhanced operational flexibility and cost control. It enables you to automate and optimize your flight operations processes as they relate to strategic planning, fleet and flight planning, and manpower planning. From daily, seasonal, and monthly to yearly and long-term planning, AD OPT provides airlines of various sizes and organizational structures with solutions that:

  • Respond to the unique requirements of any airline
  • Handle complex scheduling, planning, and management processes
  • Provide crew members with the ability to express their on the job preferences
  • Offer planners and managers flexible tools that simplify their planning tasks
  • Improve planning, forecasting, and decision-making capabilities

A suite of solutions you can count on

The AD OPT suite is powered by an award-winning optimization engine that has set the industry standard for innovation. And every product we develop strives to deliver advanced functionality that is easy to use and deploy. Learn how each of our solutions can help you automate and optimize your flight operations.

Altitude Pairing™: Build the most cost-effective crew pairings possible and monitor compliance with company rules and regulations.

Altitude Rostering™: Ensures productive rosters that fairly distribute monthly and annual block hours, while supporting your operational requirements.

Altitude PBS™ (Preferential Bidding System): Satisfy crew member preferences while facilitating an automated scheduling process for the airlines.

Altitude Insight™ (Manpower Planning): Understand and strategically plan your activities thanks to integrated manpower requirements in a single view.

Altitude BLISS: Manage all aspects of the bidline process automatically while promoting crew member satisfaction and building high-quality lines.

Altitude VBS (Vacation Bidding System) Module: Automatically award annual crew member vacation time according to all applicable rules, eligibility and crew member bids.

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Award-winning optimization

Learn how the award winning AD OPT optimization engine streamlines your resource planning process

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"At SWISS we consider Kronos as a long-term partner. The AD OPT solutions continue to evolve with our business, delivering cost efficiencies while increasing crew member satisfaction. Quality products and personalized support sets Kronos apart."

Thomas Neuschwander
Senior Manager Cabin Crew Planning and Scheduling
Swiss International Air Lines

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