A Trusted Partner to Airports of All Sizes
PASSUR has been a trusted partner to airports across the globe, delivering aviation intelligence that directly impacts overall airport performance. Our team consists of experts in airport operations, air traffic, noise management, and data engineering who are skilled at handling complex airside environments.
PASSUR’s airport clients range from large hub airports managing hundreds of daily operations to regional facilities optimizing limited ramp and gate resources. Across all of them, the ARiVA solutions deliver a common operating picture that connects airborne surveillance, surface movement data, and predictive analytics into a single, actionable intelligence layer for airport operations centers, airside managers, ramp controllers, noise officers, finance administrators and airline station coordinators.
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Key Challenges
Airports sit at the center of a highly interdependent aviation ecosystem — coordinating airlines, ground handlers, ATC, cargo operators, and passengers simultaneously. Without accurate, real-time data flowing across all of these stakeholders, inefficiency compounds quickly and cascades into delays, cost overruns, and eroded airline relationships.
- Surface congestion and taxi inefficiency: Aircraft spending excess time on the ground waiting for gates, runways, or clearances drives fuel burn, schedule disruption, and airline dissatisfaction
- Lack of a common operating picture: Airport ops, ground handlers, and airline reps work from different data sources, creating coordination gaps and reactive decision-making
- Inaccurate arrival and departure predictions: Poor ETAs for inbound flights make it impossible to pre-position ground crews, optimize gate assignments, and reduce turn times
- TFR and airspace event disruption: Temporary restrictions, weather, and special use airspace changes ripple through departure sequencing with no centralized view of impact
- Limited surveillance coverage: Gaps in ADS-B and radar coverage — particularly in remote, mountainous, or oceanic approach corridors — reduce situational awareness for arriving traffic
- Compliance and performance reporting: Airports face growing pressure from airlines, the community and governing bodies to provide accurate, auditable operational data, runway utilization reports, aeronautical fee billing reports, airport noise and environmental compliance reports, and CDM performance metrics
- Collaborative Decision Making (CDM) gaps: Without shared data, Ground Delay Programs and Traffic Management Initiatives are managed reactively rather than collaboratively amongst stakholders
How PASSUR Solves these Challenges
PASSUR’s ARiVA suite of solutions transforms disjointed and reactive airport operations into a cohesive intelligence environment. This approach enables all stakeholders—including the operations center, security teams, finance department, and ramp tower—to access consistent, accurate real-time and historical data for informed decision-making.
The PASSUR ARiVA platform acts as a unified aviation intelligence layer for airports, bringing together information from airlines, airport operations, and air traffic control into a single, synchronized view.
IROP Management
- Advance Disruption Alerts: The platform provides early notification of potential disruptive conditions such as severe weather, air traffic congestion, and bottleneck capacity constraints. This allows airports to adjust passenger flow and gating before the system is impacted.
- Holding and Diversion Management: ARiVA automatically detects aircraft holding patterns and provides tools to manage the entire process from initial holding to recovery. Airports can use these visuals to better plan for arrival demand and diversion recovery.
- Real-Time Collaboration: Integrated chat rooms and shared workflows allow airport personnel to coordinate directly with airlines and ground handlers. This speeds up recovery times by eliminating the latency of fragmented communication.
Airfield Congestion & Surface Inefficiency
- Proactive Surface Management: ARiVA monitors airport surface movement and uses AI/ML to provide accurate predicted taxi times and touchdown (ON) and takeoff (OFF) times.
- Gate Optimization: The platform flags potential gate conflicts up to 60 minutes in advance, allowing operators to dynamically reassign aircraft and reduce extended taxi-in times.
- Stakeholder Silos
- Collaborative Decision Making (ACDM): ARiVA enables airlines, airport operators, and air traffic controllers (ANSPs) to coordinate in real-time.
- Shared Workflows: Integrated chat tools and ARiVA WORKFLOW allow diverse organizations (catering, fuel, tow partners) to communicate on a single interface to manage operational segments like de-icing or aircraft towing.
Revenue Leakage
- Aeronautical/Landing Fee Management: ARiVA provides an independent, data-driven review of all operational activity to ensure every landing is accurately captured and billed to the correct airline.
Environmental & Noise Issues
- Noise Monitoring: The ARiVA Platform includes tools for noise monitoring and community engagement, helping airports maintain environmental compliance.
- Emissions Reduction: By reducing taxi times and optimizing airfield throughput, airports can help their airline partners lower fuel burn and CO2 emissions.
Safety & Surveillance Constraints
- Airfield Surveillance: ARiVA ADS-B provides the airport the ability to deploy cooperative ADS-B surveillance for the entire airfield, delivering increased situational awareness and safety.
- Vehicle Tracking: Using ADS-B Vehicle Movement Area Transponders (VMAT), airports can track surface vehicles in real-time, improving situational awareness and safety for ground crews and air traffic control.
- Visual NOTAMs: Traditional text-based NOTAMs are converted into geospatial map visualizations, giving all stakeholders a clear view of current airport constraints or closures.