DEFINITION:

Contains all sub-domains concerned with airlines/aircraft operators, their flight operations and their interactions with ATM.

(Source: ACARE Domain 710)

SUBDOMAINS:

1. Airline Operations: Airline Operations, Despatch, Fleet Scheduling, Crew Roistering and Scheduling, Aircraft Operations, Timetables, Flight Planning Process, AAC, AOC, Flight Efficiency, Flight Economics, Flight Time, Flight Duration, Fuel Burn, CDM (airlines part), Collaborative Flight Planning, Flight Schedules, Block Time.

Comments: Studies of the relevant ground operations and flight operations of commercial airlines and other aircraft operators, where relevant to ATM. Includes all forms of ATM-Airline interworking and collaborative decision-making as well as co-ordination of planning, operational policies, fleet scheduling, timetabling, route/service planning and flight planning processes, operational constraints, despatch, airline-aircraft (AOC) communications, airline commercial issues. In connection with flight operations, this sub-domain includes studies of flight economics and the impact of trajectory profiles and delays on fuel burn, flight time, flight efficiency etc

2. Freight Operations.