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The Airline Industry is one of the top financial sectors of India. India is expected to overtake China and the United States as the world's third-largest air passenger market in the next ten years, by 2030, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA). India is coming up as one of the fastest growing Aviation sectors in the world. The sector was adversely impacted during the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic and hasn't recovered since then. Thus, the importance of using Operational Research to minimize the cost and increase profits signifies even more. Despite all this in most airlines, crew costs are the second largest direct operation cost next to the fuel costs. But unlike the fuel costs, a considerable portion of the crew costs can be saved through optimized utilization of the internal resources of an airline company. And the saving is largely realized through solving the crew pairing problem. In this paper, we present a comprehensive problem definition for the airline crew scheduling problem by taking one of the airlines as a case study and try to get an optimal solution.