Raising the bar: Advancing FRM

Every schedule tells a story—not just of departure and arrival times—but of human performance, alertness, and safety. “Raising the Bar” sheds light on the evolving challenges of fatigue in airline operations and argues that relying solely on regulatory limits and traditional experience-based rules is no longer sufficient. As flight routes, roster variability, and operational pressures intensify, the risks to crew alertness—and ultimately, passenger safety—grow larger.

This paper from Jeppesen explores how airlines can go beyond minimum requirements to truly manage fatigue: embracing fatigue risk management systems, leveraging bio-mathematical fatigue models, collecting better data, and rethinking how rest, sleep and schedules are regulated and organized. Whether you’re with an airline, regulatory body, or crew union, there’s something here: strategies for reducing risk, tools for better decisions, and an urgent call to raise standards industry-wide. Enjoy.