Turnaround Time Management

Optimize aircraft turnaround performance by automatically linking arriving and departing flights, tracking turn times, and identifying operational delays and inefficiencies. Aerosimple gives airport and airline teams real-time visibility into every turnaround, helping them protect gate capacity, reduce delays, and improve on-time performance.

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Replace manual turnaround tracking with intelligent workflows that automatically match flight pairs using tail numbers, gates, and configurable rules. Monitor turn performance, manage exceptions such as gate changes and tail swaps, and turn operational data into actionable insights for faster, more efficient ground operations.

Key Features

• Automatic arrival-to-departure flight pairing using tail numbers, gates, and configurable rules

• Real-time turnaround time calculation based on live flight data

• Intelligent matching suggestions for unlinked arrivals and departures

• Configurable turnaround rules for recurring flight patterns

• Exception management for gate mismatches, aircraft tows, tail swaps, and route changes

• Overnight (RON) detection and configurable RON rules

• Gate-specific minimum turnaround buffers with violation alerts

• Turnaround milestone tracking for fueling, catering, cleaning, boarding, and other ground activities

• Stand and gate utilization analytics with flight and ground-time insights

• On-time performance reporting with drill-down into individual flights

• Historical turnaround analysis by airline, aircraft type, gate, and time period

Benefits

Improve gate utilization and aircraft turnaround efficiency by giving teams a real-time view of how long each aircraft spends at the gate. Automated flight pairing eliminates repetitive manual work while intelligent rules continuously learn recurring turnaround patterns and streamline future operations.

Identify delays, bottlenecks, and turnaround inefficiencies before they affect the wider operation. Gate-specific buffer monitoring and milestone tracking help teams understand where time is being lost and whether activities such as fueling, catering, cleaning, or boarding are impacting departure performance.

Use historical turnaround and on-time performance data to identify consistently underperforming gates, airlines, aircraft types, and operational periods. These insights support better gate planning, capacity management, resource allocation, and continuous improvement.

Integrations

The Turnaround Time Management module integrates with flight planning and airline operational systems to continuously synchronize flight schedules, aircraft information, gate assignments, and operational changes. Turnaround calculations update automatically as underlying flight or gate data changes.

The module also works with Gate & Stand Management, Resource Allocation & Planning, Stand Utilization, and On-Time Performance analytics to provide a connected view of aircraft movements, gate capacity, ground operations, and airport performance.