Better Airport®
- the world's leading optimization platform for airport operators
The holistic airport experience
When you operate in silos, you get siloed results. By connecting individual operational areas in pursuit of overarching strategic goals, airports can achieve huge efficiency improvements.Â
Connected Operations is about recognizing the holistic nature of the airport experience – from curbside to the departure lounge. So instead of operating baggage, check-in, or security as standalone entities, you connect them in pursuit of overarching strategic goals.
Data becomes the driving operational force, enabling a connected overview that enables you to deal with short-term knock-on effects while planning for the longer-term. Connected Operations wasn’t possible as little as five years ago but the advances in digitalization mean the data is now there – airports just need to put it to work more effectively.
Put your data to work to optimize airport operations
Airports that have successfully adopted a Connected Operations approach are the ones where the top-down effort to connect and utilize data sources has been especially thorough. Without the data – and the ability to connect your different data sources – you can’t see through your airport, you can only observe your departments in isolation.
Connected Operations in action gives you:
- Check-in counters that are not only allocated based on legacy agreements with airlines and handlers, but according to throughput and forecast data.
- More accurate allocation plans as data from your baggage system, expected passenger arrival times, and queuing modelling is utilized.
- Validated data, prescriptive analytics and proactive scenario planning to optimize what happens in the short-term to benefit the longer-term airport planning.
Curious to know how other airports work to implement Connected Operations?
- Validated data
- Prescriptive analytics
- Proactive scenario planning
The Connected Operations check-list:
How to get up and running
Set your goals:
The biggest benefit of Connected Operations is that it enables airport operators to get out of firefighting mode and into a goals-driven approach. Articulate your strategic goals and start planning how daily operations can support them.
Make your data count:
Airports have the data – it’s just not applied effectively. Don’t collect more data until you utilize the data you already have.
Choose your platform:
When collecting data from multiple sources, you need one place to store, view, analyze, and act on it. Airports are increasingly relying on operational platforms to optimize efficiency.
Improve everyday:
More than anything, Connected Operations is a mindset of continuous improvement. Before putting your faith in any technical solution, you need to cultivate that mindset.
Better Airport: Your way to Connected Operations
Better Airport is the world’s leading connected operations platform for airport operators, bringing clarity and confidence to plans, data, and complex decision-making. Better Airport empowers you and your business to better predict, operate, and optimize your airport flows.
Better Airport explained:
The airport horseshoe model below gives a simple yet realistic overview of how all operational processes in an airport are interconnected. All modules of our Better Airport software are built to improve and optimize each individual area—on its own or by connecting them. You can start with one or maybe two modules and grow from there, or you can take on the whole suite to implement Connected Operations, allowing you to create a solution perfectly adapted to your airport’s specific needs.
Click on the individual operational areas below to read more.
