ARINC Direct Has New Delay Notification Service for U.S. and European Flights

ARINC Direct has enhanced its portfolio of flight planning services with a system that will advise business aircraft operators when the FAA or Eurocontrol issues a delay notice for their planned departure time.

Air traffic control often issues delay notices hours before planned departure times, usually in the case of adverse weather or anticipated traffic congestion.  In the U.S. these are called EDCTs (expected departure clearance times) and CTOTs (calculated take-off times) in Europe. Frequently, these delays are unknown to aircraft operators until just before they expect to depart.  ARINC Direct's delay notification service will keep operators informed of these changes, in ways never before possible, and in many cases well before arriving at their aircraft.

Steve Corfman, ARINC Direct's manager of flight planning, said the service isn't available from any other business aviation provider.

The first phase of the service will be introduced in June.  ARINC Direct customers will be able to track their departure clearance times by logging onto the ARINC Direct Website, and checking for delay information that will be updated and integrated with the flight plan information already available.  Later in the summer, a second phase of the program will send automated alerts to a customer's choice of email, fax or cell phone - even by datalinked messages right to the aircraft - whenever their planned departure times are delayed.

ARINC Direct has access to U.S. delay data because of its partnership in the FAA's CDM (collaborative decision making) process.  It monitors the FAA's ETMS (enhanced traffic management system) and extracts data relevant to its customer's aircraft. The partnership can also earn ARINC customers better clearance times when their departures are rescheduled.  05-24-2007.

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