Seat allocation to passengers on an aircraft
AssigneeAmadeus S.A.S.
InventorsVincent Barillec, Anthony Debarge
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Abstract
A customer seating system for allocating seats to a group of customers, adapted to calculate a satisfaction value for each available seat, for each customer characterized in, that said system is further adapted to compute a global satisfaction value for each seat, said global satisfaction value is the sum of the previously calculated satisfaction values for the customers of the group, provide seating arrangements according to one of the predetermined geometrical shapes corresponding to the group, determine the group of seats matching said predetermined shape that gives the maximum average global satisfaction value, assign the corresponding seats to the group of customers.
Claims12
A customer seating system for allocating seats to a group of customers, adapted to
- calculate a satisfaction value for each available seat, for each customer
- characterized in, that said system is further adapted to
- compute a global satisfaction value for each seat, said global satisfaction value is the sum of the previously calculated satisfaction values for the customers of the group,
- provide seating arrangements according to one of the predetermined geometrical shapes corresponding to the group,
- determine the group of seats matching said predetermined shape that gives the maximum average global satisfaction value,
- assign the corresponding seats to the group of customers.
A method for allocating seats to a group of customer comprising the steps of:
- calculating a satisfaction value for each available seat, for each customer,
- computing a global satisfaction value for each seat, said global satisfaction value is the sum of the previously calculated satisfaction values for the customers of the group,
- providing seating arrangements according to one of the predetermined geometrical shapes corresponding to the group,
- determining the group of seats matching said predetermined shape that gives the maximum average global satisfaction value,
- assigning the corresponding seats to the group of customers.
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