Air Carrier Management & Operations

AAS staff offers extensive experience in Airline schedules analysis and scheduling concepts, practices, and development systems. Our process considers the marketing aspects of scheduling as well as the operational components such as defined capacities, congestion, ATC restrictions and delay forecasts. This unique knowledge affords the opportunity to perform an unbiased analysis of present and future schedules reliability, punctuality and associated impacts. Prior team experience in schedules analysis includes:

  • Schedule volume impact in constrained airspace (Capacity Vs. Demand)

  • Airline schedules development  analysis (Airport capacities Vs. Scheduled Demand)

  • Airline Operations Control schedule execution

  • Procedural change impact analysis (I.E. aircraft separation criteria changes and Land & Hold Short rule change)

AAS staff is experienced in both domestic and international commercial aviation planning and operations control congestion management.  The AAS team includes certificated airline dispatchers experienced in the following areas:

  •   All aspects of commercial aircraft dispatch

  •   Airline Operations Control (AOC) management and technology

  •   Air Traffic Control slot management and coordination

  •   Aircraft and crew routing and scheduling

  •   Weather and metrological technology

  •   Route development and communications

  •   Federal Aviation Regulation (FAR) and airline Operations Specification (OPSSPEC) compliance

  •   Airline schedules planning and analysis

  •   Air carrier flight monitoring, tracking, and tactical decision making

Reflecting on Airport and NAS demand versus constraints and congestion management, airline operations control (AOC) dispatcher roles and responsibilities are focused on balancing demand vs. capacities on an “on the day” tactical basis. Dispatchers and AOC managers routinely manage unique priorities such as FAA’s High Density Rule compliance for slot controlled airports and demand management / slot distribution for ground delay programs (GDPs) implemented by the FAA Command Center for constrained airports.

 Our team is experienced in managing GDP slot substitutions, rerouting in constrained airspace, and developing and executing Airspace Flow Programs (AFP). We have previously investigated and written several concept papers on Airline Programs such as Controlling Terminal Congestion through Slot Management and Airport Schedule Management through Collaborative Technology and Aviation Equity Credit Systems.