Chine - Hawkrose

By the time a flight delay is visible on the day, the options are few and expensive. Chine moves the decision back twenty-four hours, to where it is still cheap to act.

What it is

Chine helps airline operations teams make confident, evidence-based decisions about tomorrow’s flying programme — today.

Working a day ahead (D-1), it looks at every planned flight and predicts the risk of delay, whether from air-traffic-flow restrictions, aircraft turnaround, or local air-traffic control.

It then puts a cost on that delay and, where it is worth doing, proposes alternative routings.

Just as importantly, Chine tells you when not to act — recognising that the cost of rerouting can outweigh the benefit. It has learned from historical delay and turnaround data from EUROCONTROL and partner airlines.

Benefits

Turn flight operations from reactive to proactive

De-risk the flying programme a full day before it happens.

Put a pound figure on every delay decision

So teams reroute only when it genuinely saves money.

Get more value from strategic schedule buffers

With the confidence that they will provide the resilience intended along the line.

Applicable well beyond aviation

Any time-critical process flow can be de-risked in the same way, across aviation, defence and civil engineering.

The same optimisation approach suits any design problem with too many options to assess by hand and several objectives to balance at once — from route structures to network and infrastructure design.

Real-world examples

Flagging, the evening before, that a hub-bound flight faces a high risk of costly flow-management delay, and proposing a cheaper reroute — while leaving low-risk flights untouched.

Showing controllers where a delay can be safely absorbed by existing buffers, avoiding an unnecessary and expensive intervention.

Applying the same delay-risk logic to airport ground turnaround or a logistics chain.

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