Line Planning and Control – An overview

After their arrival or before departure, flights are halted at the gates in the terminals of the airport stations for specified time period. Line maintenance activities are performed on the flight when the flight is halted at the gate. The line maintenance activities are planned with respect to each gate for a specified flight number, leg number and flight date combination.

The “Line Planning and Control” business component serves the following purposes:

• Plan line maintenance activities to be performed on various flights at their gates based on flight schedule, actual time of flight arrival or departure and delay.

• Create or update a line package with multiple work units that are defined for the aircraft registration number .

• Update routing plan details for different flight and leg number combinations.

• Assign work groups to gates for a specified date range, to execute line package. You can also assign a set of skilled employees to the gate at work unit level or line package level.

• Record pilot reported or mechanic reported discrepancies with reference to the line package.

Getting familiar with the activities