Patent ID: 8452625
Filing Date: 2013-05-28
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: publishing a flight schedule, via a data processing system, to a computer flight system that provides customers access to purchase available seats from a plurality of flights in the published flight schedule via a computer reservation system, the published flight schedule containing the plurality of flights and a departure location, a departure time, and an arrival location for each of the plurality of flights; wherein the published flight schedule contains a number of flights that is greater than a number of possible flights that may be flown by a plurality of aircraft stored by the data processing system; publishing a fare structure associated with the flight schedule to the computer flight system that further provides access to the published fare structure via the computer reservation system, the fare structure including at least one fare for each offered seat on each flight in the flight schedule; after publishing the flight schedule and after publishing the fare structure, receiving an indication of an initial booking on a first aircraft flight of the plurality of flights; determining, via the data processing system, that the initial booking causes a new commitment to operate the first aircraft flight with a first aircraft of the plurality of aircraft; and instructing, based on the new commitment to operate the first aircraft flight with the first aircraft, the computer flight system to modify an operational status of a second aircraft flight of the plurality of flights in the published flight schedule with no prior bookings in order that the second aircraft flight will not operate via instructing the computer flight system to remove all available seats from the second aircraft flight while the second aircraft flight remains in the published flight schedule.