Patent ID: 7401029
Filing Date: 2008-07-15
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. An airline travel supplier evaluation system for analyzing airline flight information in relation to one or more predefined city pairs for a given airline customer, comprising: a source of airline schedule data from a plurality of airlines for a plurality of city pairs; a memory space for storing the airline schedule data and the city pairs; an airline fair marketshare module that accesses the airline schedule data and the city pairs and calculates an incremental travel time for each flight record serving a given city pair in relation to the fastest flight serving the given city pair, the airline fair market share module determines a market share for each airline in relation to a given city pair over a period of time and adjusts the market share for each airline based on the incremental travel time associated with flight records serving the given city pair, thereby determining a fair market share for each airline in relation to a given city pair.