American Airlines, Inc.

US Airways, Inc.

Ilhan Ince

Lourdmareddy Gumireddy

Hakan Ergan

Bo Zhang

Noel Alfonso

A departure sequencing system models airport operations and provides suggested gate pushback times for aircraft. In various embodiments, a departure sequencing system includes an airport state analyzer, a taxi-out predictor, and a pushback optimizer. The departure sequencing system may utilize stochastic models, and resolve aircraft conflicts using a business rules engine. Via use of the departure sequencing system, taxi times may be reduced, taxi fuel burn may be reduced, and airport throughput may be increased.

Suggested gate pushback time

A misconnect management system models the movement of passengers, bags, and crew through flights and airports. In various embodiments, a misconnect management system identifies potential misconnected passengers and provides recommendations and input configured to support decision makers, such as ramp controllers and operations controller, in evaluating hold/no hold decisions for a flight. Via use of the misconnect management system and associated methods, misconnected passenger numbers may be reduced, expenses associated with missed connections may be reduced, and organizational efficiency may be improved.

Executing a graph network model to obtain a gate pushback time

Restricting airplane pushback based on gate hold times

Using a graph network model to determine a gate pushback time

Departure sequencing systems and methods

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Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Ilhan Ince