Method for automatically mapping cabin and travel class structures of airline disrupted flights into replacement flights

A method for automatically mapping a cabin and travel class structure of an airline disrupted flight into the cabin and travel class structure of one or more replacement flights, the method comprising:

• retrieving (207) the cabin and travel class structure of the airline disrupted flight;
• for each passenger impacted by the disruption,
• determining (208), out of a passenger itinerary, a base disrupted flight;
• for the whole disruption period,
• splitting (209) in disruption sub-periods the cabin and travel class structure of the one or more replacement flights,
• for each disruption sub-period,
• initializing (210) the mapping by first establishing a direct match between the cabin and travel class structure of the base disrupted flight and the cabin and class structure of the one or more replacement flights;
• validating (211) the direct match against the actual cabin and travel class structure of the one or more replacement flights, the validating step including the further step of pinpointing all found discrepancies;
• retrieving (212) from a repository of rules (250) class matching tables (CMTs) that apply to the disrupted flight for the disruption period considered;
• further splitting (213) in sub-periods the cabin and travel class structure of the one or more replacement flights to imbed the actual validity periods of the retrieved CMTs;
• applying rules of the retrieved CMTs (214) to resolve all found discrepancies;
• thereby, achieving a fully automatic mapping between the cabin and travel class structure of the airline disrupted flight and the cabin and travel class structure of the one or more replacement flights.