Anton Perera

Experience

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  SriLankan Airlines Official

  Apr 2010 - Mar 2024

  • Direct crew planning/tracking staff in both flight and cabin crew, legally qualified and most cost-effective crew operation by ensuring safety and proactively addressing fatigue.• Organize effective performance management, to ensure that desired goals and objectives are achieved, and knowledge of the staff is developed through appropriate training.• Manage, guide, and supervise the production and publishing duty/training rosters of all crew members.• Supervise Crew Scheduling personnel and ensure that the appropriate guidance is provided to carry out the individual jobs efficiently and safely, adhering to the Company and regulatory manuals.• Optimize crew utilization and ensure that the crew composition of all flights is according to the Company policy.• Provide the feasibility and crew cadre information involved with the planning of new routes and ADHOC operations.• Monitor crew fatigue and proactively address crew fatigue in coordination with the Fatigue Safety Action Group (FSAG).• Analyse and forecast resource functions of crew scheduling systems to meet immediate and future systems demands; also monitor the access facilities of crew scheduling systems.• Project the crew resources capacity for strategic planning and formulate the crew cost management strategy Show less • Prepare balanced and fair rosters for both Flight and Cabin crew according to company requirements and rules and legal limitations mentioned in SLCAP 4210 document prepared by Civil Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka.• Assist Crew Scheduling Executive /Planning Executive/Duty Manager to accommodate crew for Schedules Planning proposals, such as upgrading, downgrading, re-routing of flights, and ad-hoc flights.• Administrate & supervise other planning and tracking staff to achieve departmental objectives.• Monitor operational changes of flights and advise relevant crew to sustain smooth operations.• Ensure the planning/tracking process of both flight and cabin crew legally, suitably qualified, and most cost-effectively by ensuring safety and proactively addressing fatigue.• Publish Flight & Cabin crew rosters and monitor equal distribution of hours, and allowances to the crew according to company regulations in an unbiased manner/ fully conversant with crew scheduling legalities to ensure legal rosters and to be in a position to make decisions at times of crew scheduling disruptions. Show less • Provide equal distribution of hours, and allowances to the crew according to CAASL & company regulations in an unbiased manner.• Monitor that all Sri Lankan flights are crewed according to the regulatory and company requirements.• Coordinate with the Training Division to incorporate training needs to ensure training requirements are met with uninterrupted crew rosters.• Inform online stations about standard patterns, allowances payable, positioning requirements, hotel accommodation, and changes to standard patterns and crew movements, to ensure that tech crew is available for service at respective stations. Show less • Greeting passengers and checking their tickets and passports against the passenger list using computerized systems.• Asking security questions, allocating seats, and giving out boarding cards and luggage labels.• Weighing luggage and charging the passenger extra if the luggage is overweight.• Directing passengers through security and departures.• Giving flight information and directing passengers to departure gates.• Dealing with issues from delayed, cancelled, or missed flights.• Checking boarding passes at the departure gate.• Escorting people who require assistance and unaccompanied children.• Making announcements on the public address system. Show less

  • Duty Manager Crew Planning & Resource Management

    Jun 2021 - Mar 2024

  • Crew Scheduling Supervisor

    Apr 2018 - Jun 2021

  • Crew Scheduling Officer

    Feb 2013 - Apr 2018

  • Airport Service Agent

    Apr 2010 - Feb 2013