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Abstract

A computer program product, that allows an aviation system to temporally allocate aircraft slot times during a specified period for the flow of a plurality of aircraft toward a specified fix point, has, according to the present invention: (1) a means for collecting and storing specified data and criteria, (2) a means for processing, at a specified instant for which it is desired to allocate the slot times, the specified data applicable at that instant to each of the aircraft and associated resources so as to predict an arrival fix time for each of the aircraft at the specified fix point, (3) a means for accepting and storing a request by the operator of each of the aircraft for one of the slot times, (4) a means for accepting and storing a request by an operator of the present invention to create slack time in the specified period, (5) a means, utilizing the slot and slack time requests and the predicted arrival fix times for any of the plurality of aircraft for which a slot time request was not made, for predicting the demand for the slot times, (6) a means, based upon specified data that is applicable to the specified period and fix point, for predicting the availability of the slot times within the specified period, and (7) a means, based upon the operator requests, predicted demand for and availability of the slot times and slot time allocation criteria, for allocating the slot times.

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