Ops NEXUS Suite

One hub. One operational picture. Better decisions while there's still time to act.

Ops NEXUS Suite connects flight, passenger, baggage, airspace, and ground-operation data into one operational picture — giving teams the context to anticipate risk, coordinate decisions, and act while there is still time.

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Every inbound flight becomes
one arrival, one gate, one window.

The hub sees it as one wave.

Ops NEXUS Suite

Departing

Operational Control

Ops NEXUS doesn't replace
what you already run.

It connects it.

Operational Control

How Ops NEXUS Suite fits alongside existing systems

Ops NEXUS Suite pulls flight, passenger, baggage, and airspace data into one operational picture — sitting alongside your existing network controller, turnaround, DCS, flight-planning (Lido, Lufthansa Systems), maintenance, ACARS, tower/ATC, and finance systems, not replacing them.

Teams act on one shared picture instead of reconciling separate systems by hand.

The Departure Challenge

The departure isn't one decision. It's dozens, made by different teams from different information.

  • Flights
  • Passengers
  • Connections
  • Operational Events

Departing

Prioritised Operational Awareness

Departing turns six systems' worth of signals into one answer: what needs attention before this aircraft leaves.

The Departure Journey

Five stages, one continuous picture.

  1. 01Flight PreparationFlight plan · route · EET
  2. 02Passenger & Connection MonitoringD2D · H2H transfer risk
  3. 03Boarding ReadinessAuthorised · processed · boarded
  4. 04Exception HandlingColour-coded deviation from plan
  5. 05DepartureTOBT · TSAT · CTOT · ARDT

What Teams See

Departure status, not departure guesswork.

Passenger connection risk, flagged early

Passenger Transfer (D2D) monitoring surfaces at-risk connections with a two-tier alert, before a transfer is actually missed.

Baggage connection risk, flagged early

Baggage transfer (H2H) applies the same two-tier risk logic to inbound-outbound bag connections moving through the hub.

Departure readiness, at a glance

TOBT, TSAT, CTOT, and ARDT target times sit next to stand and minutes-to-departure, with colour-coded thresholds marking a shift from plan.

Boarding status, seat by seat

Passenger and baggage status - authorised, processed, boarded - visible down to the individual seat, not just a gate-level count.

Departure-baggage exceptions

Local, transfer, rush, and unauthorised baggage counted against minutes-to-ETD, so a baggage exception is visible before it becomes a delay.

One picture, several teams

Station managers, hub controllers, and airside Customer Care work from the same connection and readiness data - not a summary relayed between systems.

From Visibility To Intervention

A flagged connection only matters if someone can still act on it.

  1. See
  2. Prioritise
  3. Intervene

Operational Impact

A departure that's visible earlier is a departure that can be protected.

Earlier visibility into a departure at risk is what turns a possible delay into a protected one.

Part Of Ops NEXUS Suite

Departing opens the same journey Flying, Arriving, and Turnaround continue.

The sources feeding Departing's picture — flight plan, DCS passenger and baggage data, ACARS, ground operations, dispatch — are the same operational systems GroundOps and Dispatch teams act on further along the journey, not a separate view built apart from them.

Anticipation & Prioritisation

Transfer risk, flagged while there's still time to act.

The AET/EET prediction engine currently forecasts airborne flight time. Taxi-out prediction is being added to sharpen the forecast further; taxi-in and turnaround-time prediction are not currently part of the model.

Operations gets advance warning while there's still time to intervene, not a post-mortem after the connection is missed.

The Anticipation Challenge

Nothing about this flight can change now. Everything downstream still can.

  • Airborne Time (EET)
  • Onward Connections
  • Transfer Windows

Flying

Prioritised Connection Risk

Flying turns an evolving flight time into an early warning for the connections riding on it.

The Flight-To-Connection Timeline

From airborne to handoff, one forecast the whole way.

  1. 01AirborneEET trip-time forecast tracking
  2. 02Connection ExposureOnward passenger & baggage transfers identified
  3. 03Window NarrowsConnection margin recalculated against EET
  4. 04Risk FlaggedColour-coded alert once margin tightens
  5. 05HandoffFlagged connections reach ground teams before arrival

What Teams See

Connection risk, not connection guesswork.

Connection risk, forecast in flight

The Passenger Transfer Forecast Engine flags at-risk connections while the inbound flight is still airborne, built on the AET/EET trip-time forecast.

Baggage transfer risk, same lead time

The Baggage Transfer Forecast Engine applies the same forecasting to baggage connections riding on the same flight.

Colour-coded prioritisation

Alerts distinguish a connection that's at risk from one that isn't, so attention goes where it's actually needed.

A live forecast, not a static schedule

EET is a live trip-time prediction that moves as the flight does, shown on the IOC Dashboard as it updates.

Lead time the ground can use

A flagged connection reaches transfer and ground teams before the aircraft carrying it has landed, not after.

One engine, shared across the Suite

The same forecast that flags a connection here is the one HubTM and GroundOps act on further along the journey.

From Forecast To Intervention

A connection flagged mid-flight only helps if the ground can still get ahead of it.

  1. Forecast
  2. Prioritise
  3. Prepare

Operational Impact

A connection at risk is easier to protect the earlier it's flagged.

The lead time between an in-flight forecast and an actual arrival is time a ground team can still use.

Part Of Ops NEXUS Suite

Flying is the forecast that carries between Departing and Arriving.

The same AET/EET forecast and transfer-risk alerts that flag a connection here are what Departing's readiness picture and GroundOps' ground teams act on downstream — one forecast, not a separate calculation for each stage of the journey.

Coordinated Decision-Making

The airspace restriction dispatch sees is the one operations logged this morning.

Dispatch and Arrival Management work from data that keeps itself current — a NOTAM logged once automatically updates the airspace-restriction view dispatch relies on, station by station, nobody re-enters the same fact twice.

Dispatch decisions run on the airspace picture as it stands right now, not this morning's version of it.

The Arrival Challenge

An ETA isn't a plan. It's a moving target the operation has to prepare against.

  • ETA & Flight Progress
  • Operational Events
  • Connections
  • Ground Context

Arriving

Operational Readiness

Arriving turns a changing estimate into a ground operation that's ready when the aircraft is.

The Arrival Journey

From approach to on-block, the picture stays current.

  1. 01ApproachSTA / ETA / ATA timing updates
  2. 02Shared ContextNOTAMs & restrictions propagate automatically
  3. 03SequencingArrival Management sequences by Cost Index
  4. 04Ground ReadinessStand, connection & turnaround context prepared
  5. 05On-BlockHandoff into Turnaround

What Teams See

Arrival readiness, not arrival guesswork.

One restriction, one record

A NOTAM or airspace restriction is logged once and automatically reflected everywhere it's relevant — not re-entered per team, not re-entered per station.

Dispatch works from the current picture

Flight Dispatch manages flight planning, fuel, ATC slots, and IOSA-aligned briefing against airspace data that updates itself.

Sequencing weighed against real cost

Arrival Management's Cost Index engine evaluates passenger-compensation, crew-time, and fuel-cost scenarios when sequencing inbound arrivals — aimed at protecting connections and turnaround time, not just arrival order.

Arrival timing, live

STA, ETA, ATA, and MVT timing sit next to stand assignment, with colour-coded thresholds marking a shift from plan.

Ground context, not a fresh schedule

Passenger, baggage, and turnaround context for the arriving flight is prepared against the current timing picture, not the one filed hours earlier.

Two functions, one shared context

Dispatch and Arrival Management have separate mandates but work from data that stays current between them, not two independently maintained pictures.

From Awareness To Readiness

An arrival only helps the operation if the ground is ready before it reaches the stand.

  1. Understand
  2. Prepare
  3. Coordinate

Operational Impact

An arrival prepared for in advance is an arrival that protects the rest of the operation.

A ground operation prepared before the aircraft is on the stand is a turnaround that starts on time.

Part Of Ops NEXUS Suite

Arriving is where the inbound flight becomes ground readiness.

The same airspace and sequencing picture that comes together in Arriving is what carries into Departing's readiness view for the next departure, and into the turnaround the ground teams execute once the aircraft is on the stand.

Execution

The same picture, in the hands of the people at the aircraft.

Field teams act on the same operational picture the operations centre sees. The next step is closing the loop, allowing updates from the operation at the aircraft to flow back automatically into the central picture.

Ramp teams act on the same forecast the operations centre sees, without waiting for someone to relay it.

The Turnaround Challenge

A dozen teams, one aircraft, one clock.

Ground handling, fuelling, catering, cleaning, baggage, boarding, and crew all work around the same aircraft on a fixed schedule — coordinated by teams that don't share one view of how the turnaround is actually going.

The hard part isn't tracking one event. It's telling a normal variance from a turnaround that needs a decision, before it becomes a departure delay.

The Turnaround Picture

One aircraft, one timeline, everyone on it.

  1. 01Arrival
  2. 02Ground Activities
  3. 03Critical MilestonesTOBT · TSAT · ARDT
  4. 04Boarding & Readiness
  5. 05Pushback

What Teams See

Turnaround status, not turnaround guesswork.

Real-time milestone visibility

Stand, minutes-to-departure, and TOBT/TSAT/CTOT/ARDT target times, live — not relayed secondhand.

Turnaround progress tracking

Crew, passenger, and baggage connection status against the inbound/outbound pair, from arrival through departure.

Planned vs. actual awareness

Target times sit next to what's actually happening, so a shift from plan is visible as it happens, not after.

Delay & deviation identification

Colour-coded thresholds flag a turnaround moving outside normal variance, on the same screen teams already use.

Cross-team coordination

Turnaround Managers and airside Customer Care work from the same screen — the GroundOps app, not a relayed summary.

Critical-path awareness

Passenger and baggage connection-time margins, sourced from the same forecasting engine as the rest of Ops NEXUS Suite.

From Visibility To Action

Seeing the risk isn't the same as acting on it.

  1. Observe
  2. Understand
  3. Prioritise
  4. Act

Operational Impact

A turnaround that's visible earlier is a turnaround that can be protected.

More predictable departures start with a turnaround nobody has to guess about.

Part Of Ops NEXUS Suite

Turnaround is what GroundOps puts in the ramp team's hand.

GroundOps is one of Ops NEXUS Suite's three modules, alongside HubTM — the real-time hub-operations view operations centres work from — and FTM, which covers flight dispatch and arrival management. The same turnaround and transfer forecasts that inform the hub's operational picture reach the people physically at the aircraft — not a separate system relaying a summary, the same one.

Measurable Operational Value

Fewer missed connections. Less baggage left behind. Better on-time performance.

Ops NEXUS Suite, operational scale

One flight.

Airline scale.

~25M

Passengers

~17M

Baggage items

~27K

Flights / year

Annual operational scale across the airline environments where Ops NEXUS has been deployed.

Ops NEXUS Suite

  • Departing
  • Flying
  • Arriving
  • Turnaround

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