American Airlines — Fort Worth, TX, US
Intro
Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities, both at work and during your time off? Join our American Airlines family, and you’ll travel the world, grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you’ll tackle challenges with flexibility and grace, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life. Feel free to enrich both your personal and work life and hop on board!
Why you'll love this job
• The Crew Allocations Strategy Analyst is a critical contributor to the Crew Planning team, providing the analytical horsepower behind American’s next generation of crew planning tools. In this role, you will run scenario analyses, evaluate the operational and financial impact of sequence design adjustments, and support the development of AI driven models that balance cost and operability across the pilot and flight attendant operations. You will work closely with analysts, planners, and technology partners to transform how schedules are built, evaluated, and optimized.
• This position is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex operational problems, working cross functionally, and influencing decisions that materially improve cost, reliability, and crew experience.
What you'll do
As noted above, this list is intended to reflect the current job but there may be additional essential functions (and certainly non-essential job functions) that are not referenced. Management will modify the job or require other tasks be performed whenever it is deemed appropriate to do so, observing, of course, any legal obligations including any collective bargaining obligations.
• Derive meaningful and actionable insights from data that help improve the crew operation
• Perform large scale scenario analyses to evaluate breakage risk, trip desirability, reserve impacts, crew legalities, and sequence level cost tradeoffs
• Analyze current, past, and future schedules to provide insights to leadership and planning teams
• Support the development and validation of predictive models (breakage risk, crew behavior forecasting, dynamic buffers, crew basing, cost modeling) by supplying data, running test cases, and verifying outputs
• Conduct quality control checks on scenario results, ensuring compliance with contractual requirements, operational standards, and company policies
• Partner with strategy and technology teams to enhance technology and tools
• Prepare internal reports, presentations, and insights to communicate projected scenario outcomes, cost impacts, and operational benefits to leadership
• Work collaboratively with various teams across the crew and ops domains (Crew Scheduling, Crew Planning, Flight, Flight Service, IOC, etc.) to develop innovative and insightful solutions to improve operational excellence and fiscal sustainability
All you'll need for success
Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience
• 4 years of analytical experience, preferably in crew planning, aviation operations, workforce planning, or a similar environment
• Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative discipline such as Applied Statistics, Data Analytics, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Information Systems, Computer Science, or Business Analytics or additional equivalent experience/training
Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience
• Master's Degree in a quantitative discipline such as Applied Statistics, Data Analytics, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Information Systems, Computer Science, or Business Analytics
• Experience with crew planning systems, network operations, or airline scheduling tools
• Knowledge of crew legalities and contractual work rules
• Background in optimization, forecasting, simulation modeling, or scenario‑based decision support
• Experience working in S3RUS or similar scenario/simulation environments
• Exposure to Python, SQL, or tools used for model validation and data processing
• Experience in creating compelling dashboards
Skills, Licenses & Certification
• Highly proficient in use of Microsoft Office software, including Access, Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Excellent project management and organizational skills, with attention to detail and ability to manage multiple projects on an ongoing basis
• Excellent quantitative and analytical skills with an aptitude for problem solving
• Ability to work effectively, meet deadlines, and shift priorities appropriately in a fast paced, dynamic work environment with great attention to detail
• Knowledge of data processing/manipulation languages such SQL, R, Python in large database environments
What you'll get
Feel free to take advantage of all that American Airlines has to offer:
• Travel Perks: Ready to explore the world? You, your family and your friends can reach 365 destinations on more than 6,800 daily flights across our global network.
• Health Benefits: On day one, you’ll have access to your health, dental, prescription and vision benefits to help you stay well. And that’s just the start, we also offer virtual doctor visits, flexible spending accounts and more.
• Wellness Programs: We want you to be the best version of yourself – that’s why our wellness programs provide you with all the right tools, resources and support you need.
• 401(k) Program: Available upon hire and, depending on the workgroup, employer contributions to your 401(k) program are available after one year.
• Additional Benefits: Other great benefits include our Employee Assistance Program, pet insurance and discounts on hotels, cars, cruises and more
Feel free to be yourself at American
From the team members we hire to the customers we serve, inclusion and diversity are the foundation of the dynamic workforce at American Airlines. Our 20+ Team Member Business Resource Groups are focused on connecting our team members to our customers, suppliers, communities and shareholders, helping team members reach their full potential and creating an inclusive work environment to meet and exceed the needs of our diverse world.
Are you ready to feel a tremendous sense of pride and satisfaction as you do your part to keep the largest airline in the world running smoothly as we care for people on life’s journey? Feel free to be yourself at American.
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