Patent ID: 8024210

Claim:
A method that manages tasks for ground support teams for aircraft in aircraft parking areas of an airport, in which an airport control center determines profession specific aircraft-related tasks for respective support teams and provides each team with information specifying its tasks, the method being characterized in that the control center transmits aircraft-related task information via a radio-telephone network, the teams receive respective information on terminals of the network which display the information to them, and when the tasks have been completed, the teams transmit task completion reports back to the center from the terminals, the method being further characterized in that the control center continuously and automatically compares local aircraft-related data stored in a database of the control center with multi-airport aircraft-related data in an incoming data stream from a global database, including sites associated with data that identify parking areas for aircraft, and sites associated with data on scheduled movements of aircraft, to determine a data match between local aircraft-related data and multi-airport aircraft-related data in the incoming data stream, and in that profession specific servers in the control center are used, in the event of a data match, to generate and send automatically general flight information to all teams and profession specific tasks only to specific teams, and to coordinate tasks between the different teams on the basis of the data from the local database.