Flight Explorer and Metron Team on Tactical Rescheduling Tool

Flight Explorer is teaming with Metron Aviation to integrate Merton's ESM (enhanced substitution module) into Flight Explorer's FE Professional ASD (aircraft situation display).  Flight Explorer also will market Metron's ESM to its own commercial and business aviation customers as a VAR (value-added-reseller).

Metron developed ESM as an optional add-on to the FAA's FSM (flight schedule monitor) - which Metron also developed - for the agency's CDM (collaborative decision making) program.  FSM is used by FAA and Nav Canada traffic flow managers, along with participating CDM operators, to monitor the balance between airport capacity and demand, model various initiatives to manage traffic flow, and evaluate alternatives.

ESM automatically provides resource alerts, delay previews, and other tools to assist CDM participants to strategically cancel affected flights and make possible substitutions.  The tool also includes algorithms for automating repetitive tasks and for evaluating complex priority scenarios to choose preferred swaps.  In addition, it offers a messaging functionality for communicating changes both to the ETMS (enhanced traffic management system) and within an airline's operation center.

By integrating ESM with Flight Explorer, operators also will be able to receive real-time proactive alerts in their ASD application if their flights might be affected by an AFP or GDP (airspace flow or ground delay program).

The fully integrated solution is scheduled for launch in the 1st Quarter of 2008.  08-02-2007.

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