Speedier travel
A web-based technology from Passur Aerospace in Stamford is battling airport delays at a time when a single runway impasse can initiate domino delays coast to coast.
“This particular technology is part of our collaborative solutions, where we have platforms that bring together many different players in that aviation space,” said Ron Dunsky, vice president of new product development at Passur. “Airlines, airport, and government aviation agencies are some of the big ones. We bring them all together on a platform to make real time collaborative decisions.”
Passur is a provider of information and support technologies for the aviation industry.
Dunsky said the implications of the platform, called OPSnet, have significant financial and environmental impacts in such industry arenas as push-backs, cancellations, deicing, diversions and fuel burn through what the company terms “immediate, timely and automated dissemination of information.”
The airports involved include Westchester County Airport; Milwaukee’s General Mitchell International Airport; Denver International Airport; Boston’s Logan International Airport; Oakland International Airport; Washington’s Dulles International Airport; JFK International Airport; Newark Liberty International Airport, LaGuardia International Airport and Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
Dunsky said the platform provides more complete information than traditional field condition reporting. He said the system links all aviation organizations into a national network of airline and airport field condition report users, enabling conditions at any one facility to be made available to all.
Dunsky said one of the components of the suite has recently become exceedingly timely, with the new fines implemented during this holiday season for extended tarmac delays.
“There is module to the platform that helps to collaboratively manage those situations,” said Dunsky. “With different pieces of the collaborative pie, we can generate all kinds of intelligence, a lot of it in the predictive area. We can maximize efficiencies. What’s critical is that during day-to-day operations, particularly during congestion or severe weather, the status of the airfield changes a lot and can change how your managing your operation. Which in turn affects if you’ll be delayed or not.”
Dunsky said the system can help eliminate diversions, secondary de-icings and cancellations for carriers. The company reports savings of up to $12 million per airport annually.
“They can also get the full context of the info, the full picture, said Dunsky. “They can see not only the information but what the airport is intending to do, too. It can make a big difference.”
Dunsky said that in the past airport decisions, which can greatly affected rider impressions, were generally out of the hands of the airlines.
“Increasingly airlines are driving the adoption of this equipment,” said Dunsky. “They’re aware the efficiency to be gained greatly outweighs the costs of adopting the subscriptions of the service. All of it has huge financial or customer service applications.”
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