Patent ID: 8255097

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving data associated with an inbound airline flight from one or more data sources, the inbound airline flight employing an aircraft and having an arrival gate and a time of arrival at the arrival gate; at a first location, displaying on a first output device a plurality of parameters specific to the inbound airline flight in response to receiving data associated with the inbound airline flight, the plurality of parameters comprising: an inbound flight identifier associated with the inbound flight; an arrival gate identifier associated with the arrival gate; a time of arrival indicator associated with the time of arrival; an aircraft identifier associated with the aircraft; and a maintenance indicator associated with at least one maintenance requirement of the aircraft; at the first location, assigning with a first input device a maintenance resource to the aircraft; at a second location, displaying on a second output device the following: the inbound flight identifier associated with the inbound flight; the arrival gate identifier associated with the arrival gate; the time of arrival indicator associated with the time of arrival; the aircraft identifier associated with the aircraft; the maintenance indicator associated with the at least one maintenance requirement of the aircraft; and an assignment identifier associated with the assignment of the maintenance resource to the aircraft; positioning the maintenance resource at the arrival gate at the same time as, or before, the time of arrival; at the arrival gate, performing one or more maintenance activities on the aircraft with the maintenance resource, comprising one or more of the following: comparing a maintenance record specific to the aircraft with the maintenance indicator displayed on the first output device at the first location and displayed on the second output device at the second location; and performing maintenance on the aircraft; at the first location, displaying on the first output device a completion identifier indicating the completion of performing the one or more maintenance activities on the aircraft; and at the second location, displaying on the second output device the completion identifier indicating the completion of performing the one or more maintenance activities on the aircraft.