Aircraft diversion management

An aircraft diversion system, the system comprising

• at least one processor implemented in circuitry;
• and
• at least one memory couple the at least one processor that stores instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to:
• obtain a request to divert an aircraft in flight away from an original destination airport;
• obtain real-time aircraft state data from an onboard computing device through an aircraft data gateway that connects the aircraft to at least one ground-based cloud service executed on cloud computing resources;
• invoke at least one model configured as one of the at least one ground-based cloud service to identify one or more candidate airports and associated suitability scores from a plurality of alternate airports based on the real-time aircraft state data and information regarding the plurality of alternate airports from multiple data sources;
• and
• transmitting the one or more candidate airports, as one or more recommendations for aircraft diversion, to an avionics system of the aircraft for presentation to a pilot, wherein two or more of the candidate airports are ordered from most suitable to least suitable based on the associated suitability scores.

A computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed, cause one or more processors to:

• obtain a request to divert an aircraft in flight away from an original destination airport;
• obtain real-time aircraft state data from an onboard computing device through an aircraft data gateway that connects the aircraft to at least one ground-based cloud service executed on cloud computing resources;
• invoke at least one model configured as one of the at least one ground-based cloud service to identify one or more candidate airports and associated suitability scores from a plurality of alternate airports based on the real-time aircraft state data and information regarding the plurality of alternate airports from multiple data sources;
• and
• transmitting the one or more candidate airports, as one or more recommendations for aircraft diversion, to an avionics system of the aircraft for presentation to a pilot, wherein two or more of the candidate airports are ordered from most suitable to least suitable based on the associated suitability scores.