Abstract: Provided herein are systems, methods and machine-readable media for interfacing with computer flight systems. For example, one embodiment is described wherein an unknown and/or changing inventory of aircraft, potentially including aircraft owned or operated by third parties, is managed to provide flight schedules, fare structures, and reservation inventories to computer flight systems. Another embodiment is described wherein aircraft inventory is allocated dynamically and/or adjusted in real-time in response to bookings of seats on aircraft flights in the flight schedule. Another embodiment is described wherein aircraft inventory may be changed by suppliers of aircraft, including changes to costs for using a portion of the inventory (e.g., using an aircraft for a day), and a management system may modify booking class inventories on one or more flights in the flight schedule in response.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 29, 2011
Date of Patent:
November 19, 2013
Assignee:
Primair, Inc.
Inventors:
Matthew R. Maguire, Barry C. Smith, Ronald J. Dwyer
Abstract: Provided herein are systems, methods and machine-readable media for interfacing with computer flight systems. For example, in one embodiment, a method includes: maintaining, via a data processing system, a pool of provisional flights; receiving a bid or a booking; and in response to receiving the bid or the booking, modifying at least one booking class inventory for at least one flight in the pool of provisional flights.
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 19, 2013
Publication date:
September 12, 2013
Applicant:
Primair, Inc.
Inventors:
Matthew R. Maguire, Barry C. Smith, Ronald J. Dwyer
Abstract: Provided herein are systems, methods and machine-readable media for interfacing with computer flight systems. For example, one embodiment is described wherein an unknown and/or changing inventory of aircraft, potentially including aircraft owned or operated by third parties, is managed to provide flight schedules, fare structures, and reservation inventories to computer flight systems. Another embodiment is described wherein aircraft inventory is allocated dynamically and/or adjusted in real-time in response to bookings of seats on aircraft flights in the flight schedule. Another embodiment is described wherein aircraft inventory may be changed by suppliers of aircraft, including changes to costs for using a portion of the inventory (e.g., using an aircraft for a day), and a management system may modify booking class inventories on one or more flights in the flight schedule in response.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 29, 2011
Date of Patent:
May 28, 2013
Assignee:
Primair, Inc.
Inventors:
Matthew R. Maguire, Barry C. Smith, Ronald J. Dwyer
Abstract: Provided herein are systems, methods and machine-readable media for interfacing with computer flight systems. For example, one embodiment is described wherein an unknown and/or changing inventory of aircraft, potentially including aircraft owned or operated by third parties, is managed to provide flight schedules, fare structures, and reservation inventories to computer flight systems. Another embodiment is described wherein aircraft inventory is allocated dynamically and/or adjusted in real-time in response to bookings of seats on aircraft flights in the flight schedule. Another embodiment is described wherein aircraft inventory may be changed by suppliers of aircraft, including changes to costs for using a portion of the inventory (e.g., using an aircraft for a day), and a management system may modify booking class inventories on one or more flights in the flight schedule in response.
Type:
Application
Filed:
September 29, 2011
Publication date:
February 9, 2012
Applicant:
Primair, Inc.
Inventors:
Matthew R. Maguire, Barry C. Smith, Ronald J. Dwyer
Abstract: Provided herein are systems, methods and machine-readable media for interfacing with computer flight systems. For example, one embodiment is described wherein an unknown and/or changing inventory of aircraft, potentially including aircraft owned or operated by third parties, is managed to provide flight schedules, fare structures, and reservation inventories to computer flight systems. Another embodiment is described wherein aircraft inventory is allocated dynamically and/or adjusted in real-time in response to bookings of seats on aircraft flights in the flight schedule. Another embodiment is described wherein aircraft inventory may be changed by suppliers of aircraft, including changes to costs for using a portion of the inventory (e.g., using an aircraft for a day), and a management system may modify booking class inventories on one or more flights in the flight schedule in response.
Type:
Application
Filed:
September 29, 2011
Publication date:
February 9, 2012
Applicant:
Primair, Inc.
Inventors:
Matthew R. Maguire, Barry C. Smith, Ronald J. Dwyer