Methods and systems for generating holistic airline schedule recovery solutions accounting for operations, crew, and passengers

US11893523B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• GE Aviation Systems Limited · GB

Inventors

• Srinivas Bollapragada · Niskayuna, US
• Nitish Umang · Schenectady, US
• Sanket Bhat · Bengaluru, IN
• Hocine Bouarab · Romsey, GB
• Marc Anthony Garbiras · Clifton Park, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 20, 2021
• Grant date: Feb 6, 2024
• Expiry date: Feb 4, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G08G5/00
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Methods and systems for generating a recovery scheduling solution in response to a scheduling disruption are disclosed. A method includes receiving a request to modify an original schedule operations solution based on disruptive events, computing a flight recovery solution to reschedule disrupted flights, generating a crew recovery solution using the flight recovery solution that includes covered and uncovered flights by assigning flight crews to rescheduled disrupted flights, iteratively generating recommendations to delay or cancel uncovered flights until a best recovery solution is obtained, the best recovery solution including a crew recovery solution with a least amount of uncovered flights, iteratively generating, by the processing device, subsequent flight and crew recovery solutions based on the recommendations, generating a passenger recovery solution based on the best recovery solution and re-assigning disrupted passengers to the rescheduled disrupted flights, and configuring the airline recovery scheduling solution.