Enhanced Substitution ModuleAutomated flight substitution aid for airlinesThe Enhanced Substitution Module (ESM), Metron Aviation’s first commercial product, is an automated flight substitution aid for airline users. ESM is an optional add-on component to Flight Schedule Monitor (FSM) that provides resource alerts, delay previews and other tools to assist a user in strategically canceling and substituting flights controlled by Air Traffic Control (ATC) regulations. ESM also includes algorithms for automating repetitive tasks and evaluating complex priority scenarios to choose preferred swaps. Messaging functionality is supplied for communicating changes both to the Traffic Flow Management System (TFMS) and within an airline’s operation center. ESM’s customer-base includes over a dozen carriers of all sizes, encompassing the vast majority of airlines who use substitutions. ESM provides a reduction of ATC delays for an airline’s flights that translate directly into cost savings for the carrier. Daily savings for a hub carrier, at a single regulated airport, can easily reach dozens of hours and over one hundred thousand dollars. ESM is also used as an analysis tool to reenact historical scenarios and evaluate lessons learned. ESM is utilized to prototype new substitution procedures and is available to all Collaborative Decision Making (CDM) participants (including non-ESM customers) for trial in Human-In-The-Loop (HITL) tests, aiding rapid concept verification.
ESM provides resource alerts, delay previews and other tools to assist a user in strategically canceling and substituting flights controlled by Air Traffic Control (ATC) regulations. |
