System and method for estimating aircraft flight delay
AssigneeRLM Software, Inc.
InventorsLorraine Flynn, Mary Flynn, James Steinberg
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Abstract
A method and system estimate, in real time, the amount of any delay in departure of an aircraft flight from an airport. Various embodiments include receiving in a first computer process a conditions input that includes at least one member of a set including departure airport conditions, arrival airport conditions, and fleet conditions; and estimating in a second computer process the amount of delay based on the conditions input. User interfaces and data structures are also provided.
Claims5
A method of deriving, as a function of weather, the capacity of an airport to handle aircraft departures and aircraft arrivals, the method comprising:
- providing historical flight data for airport, over a plurality of specified time intervals, including actual departures and actual arrivals, weather conditions, and demand for departures and demand for arrivals;
- selecting occasions in such intervals when demand for departures and demand for such arrivals exceeds actual arrivals and actual departures;
- quantizing weather conditions for such occasions to produce quantized data identifying weather conditions for each such occasion;
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- utilizing statistical analysis of the historical data by identifying weather variables having a statistically significant relationship to numbers of departures or arrivals in such intervals to determine capacity of the airport to handle aircraft departures and aircraft arrivals as a function of quantized weather values.
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