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Budapest Airport – Intelligent Flight Information Management

Two of the major concerns in flight scheduling at airports are topicality and completeness of all flight data required for smooth operations. To achieve the best-possible data supply, connections to external sources are of essential importance.

With topsystem’s AirportStar-FlightSeason and the data linkup to a wide array of flight data sources, Budapest Airport now has a state-of-the-art software solution at its disposal. Due to the highly versatile information brokerage module, AirportStar-MessageBroker, connections to a great variety of sources were easily established. This includes, for example, import and interpretation of seasonal and operational IATA messages, AFTN messages, METAR reports and a connection to the country’s air navigation service provider HungaroControl, just to name the most important.

However, import and interpretation are not all that’s required for an optimal system. Prioritisation of data sources in cases of contradictory data imports as well as plausibility checks to minimise errors are also must-haves here. Finally, selective exports to external systems like, for example, FIDS and commercial reporting and evaluation systems are also part of topsystem’s solution.

In the bottom line, flight operations can nowadays only be managed as good as the corresponding data allows. And in this respect, Budapest Airport now has one of the market-leading solutions available.