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Airport Flow Tool

Overview
The Airport Flow Tool presents airport demand and capacity information in real-time through graphics and text, allowing airlines to analyze airport constraints and develop coping mechanisms. The tool displays specific flight information, airport arrival and departure rates, arrival and departure slots, and airport restrictions. Based on the display, users can determine whether a demand/capacity imbalance exists and take action to cancel, delay or substitute flights to maintain traffic flow. Prior to implementation, traffic management scenarios can be modeled and evaluated in a matter of seconds. The Airport Flow Tool provides common situational awareness by allowing users to view the same snapshot in time, thus facilitating collaboration and distributed decision making.

Product Features
  • Provides common situational awareness
  • Displays flight information
  • Demand/capacity decision support tool
  • Models airport and airspace constraints
  • Historical data analysis capability

Benefits
The Airport Flow Tool contains several rationing schemes that seek to maintain an efficient and equitable balance between capacity and demand. The tool provides a means of reassigning flights to slots in a manner that ensures scarce airport capacity is utilized effectively. Graphical Power Run functionality allows for quick examination of multiple strategies measured by various performance metrics. The Airport Flow Tool plug-in feature enables outside contractors to develop and fully integrate their own tools. Reduced arrival rates at airports can be modeled to generate airborne holding times for flights, thus allowing airline dispatchers to calculate optimum hold fuel to reduce diversions. The tool displays both live and historical data. Live data is used to monitor the current situation at an airport and display flight schedule demand. Historical data is used to analyze flight schedules and impact of airport restrictions to adjust for future markets.

AFT AFT Map AFT Timeline
Multi-window Monitor Mode

Map-based Airport Monitor

Timeline and Graph

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