Looking at an example of Operational Awareness at Southwest Airlines, presented at a TIBCO user conference in 2008 or 2009
Southwest Airlines is venturing into the rules development space with the Early Alert System. EAS enables SWA to have a real-time model of its entire aircraft fleet, tracking such activities as taxi in, taxi out, and in gate turn. It does this by maintaining a data structure representing physical assets and the activities they perform. Incoming data from those assets update the data structure, and rules react to the changes. We hope to use this paradigm going forward to use rules to monitor other aspects of the enterprise, enabling a more agile and efficient response to the airline's daily operating challenges. Our main points will be the Overview, Feature Review, Design, Other Uses of Rules at present by SWA and the future of rules at SWA.Greg Barton: Southwest Airlines, Senior Software Engineer
FlightExplorer was offering situational and operational awareness to airlines and airports back in 2002.
- real-time flight tracking information
- keeping the operations staff abreast of pending arrivals and departures
- delivering improved airfield safety and efficiency, as well as supporting billing
Kansas City, Dayton and Grand Rapids - Ford International Airports Take Off With Flight Explorer® to Track Aircraft and Provide Higher Level of Customer Service (Flight Explorer, 16 May 2002)
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