US Airways Expanding Use of PASSUR Tools in Ops Control Center

US Airways is expanding its use of Megadata Corporation's PASSUR by contracting for its analytical and decision support tools designed to improve airspace utilization, fuel management, and diversion management.

The new PASSUR FlightPerform software will be deployed at US Airways' operations control center in Pittsburgh, where it will be used to get more accurate predictions of aircraft hold times, real-time decision support to mitigate diversions, and continuing real-time evaluation of airport and airspace utilization.

Megadata says some of these benefits are possible because of US Airways' access to the PASSUR international network of proprietary radar installations, and PASSUR's unique high resolution True Tracking application, with its 4.6 second update rate.  But FlightPerform's comprehensive view of the airspace activity, including arrival and departure rates, real-time runway configurations, vectors, and miles-in-trail, as well as its ability to analyze airborne holds in real time, are also significant contributors.  10-13-2007.

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