TradeWing monitors open time, routes trip trades, and enforces legal compliance automatically. No phone calls. No spreadsheets. No scheduling department burning out at 5am.
Open time management still runs through email threads and Excel. When someone calls in sick, your schedulers scramble manually — and hope nothing falls through the cracks.
Jeppesen, NetLine/Crew, iFlight — the enterprise tools cost more than your entire operations budget. Regional carriers with 50 to 300 crew get nothing that fits.
FAA duty limits don't care if your scheduler was up all night. Every illegal assignment is a safety risk and a six-figure fine waiting to happen.
20–30% annual turnover in regional ops means your scheduling team is constantly retraining on a system that was never designed to be intuitive.
"Every airline's crew scheduling department uses a different kind of black magic. TradeWing makes that magic systematic."— What a senior United FA told us about trip trading
Agent watches your open time 24/7. When a trip drops, it immediately identifies eligible crew, checks legality, and routes the assignment — before a human scheduler even sees it.
When crew request a swap, TradeWing validates the trade against your rules, checks both crew members' legality, notifies the scheduler if needed, and closes the loop automatically.
Every assignment runs through FAA duty limits, minimum rest requirements, and your airline's specific rules before it lands. No violations. No surprises at 3am.
TradeWing learns what your crew prefer over time — routes, bases, schedule patterns. It starts routing open time toward crew who actually want it.
Every decision logged, every legality check timestamped, every trade documented. When the union asks why a trade was approved, you have the answer in three clicks.
Flight attendants and pilots view their schedule, submit trade requests, and receive push notifications — all from their phone. No phone tree. No calling crew scheduling.
A crew member calls in sick. A trip goes into open time. TradeWing detects it automatically — no manual entry required.
Agent filters the eligible crew pool by qualifications, current duty status, rest windows, and union rules. Crew with expired certifications are auto-excluded.
Trip is routed to the best-fit crew member. Push notification sent. If it's above your threshold, a message goes to crew scheduling for review — otherwise it's done.
Every step in the decision chain is logged with timestamps and reasoning. Full audit trail for compliance and dispute resolution.
The regional airline industry runs on people who care deeply about getting it right — and software built for people who don't.
We built TradeWing for the scheduler who's been patching holes with phone calls at midnight. For the crew member who's been waiting three hours for a callback on a trade. For the operation that can't afford half a million dollars of enterprise software but can't afford the fines either.
Crew scheduling is a $3.2 billion problem. It doesn't have to be.
You've worked inside the scheduling department. You know what a mess it is. You also know the fix — it just hasn't existed until now.
TradeWing doesn't replace your scheduling team. It removes the part of the job that makes them want to quit: the manual grind, the 3am scramble, the spreadsheet they pray is right.
They get to do the hard part — the judgment calls, the exception handling, the crew relationships. The rest runs itself.