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Resolve airport

Which aerodrome does this airport code or name refer to on a given date? Accepts an IATA three-letter code, an ICAO four-letter code, an airport name fragment or a city name. Returns the aerodrome with its codes, location, elevation, IANA timezone and type (large, medium, small, heliport or closed). Pass `as_of` whenever the question concerns a past date. Airport codes move between aerodromes: ATH meant Ellinikon until 2001 and Athens International after it; HKG meant Kai Tak until 1998. Witho

Resolve airline

Which airline does this designator, name or callsign refer to on a date? Accepts an IATA two-character designator, an ICAO three-letter designator, an airline name or a callsign. Returns the operator with both designators, country, operational status and, where an airline ceased, its successor. `as_of` matters more here than for any other tool. IATA two-character designators are heavily reused: SN was Sabena until 2001 and has been Brussels Airlines since 2007, so "SN" without a date is a ques

Resolve aircraft type

Which aircraft type does this designator or marketing name refer to? Accepts an ICAO type designator (A21N) or a marketing name people actually say ("A321neo", "Dash 8-400", "777-300ER", "Q400"). Returns the ICAO designator, manufacturer, model, engine count and type, aircraft class, and the ICAO wake turbulence category. A name that identifies a family rather than a variant -- "Dreamliner", "777X", "A330neo" -- returns `ambiguous` with the variants as alternates and a confidence in the 0.4-0.

Resolve registration

Which airframe wore this registration on a given date? Accepts a tail number in any common form: VH-OQA, VHOQA, lowercase, padded with whitespace. Returns the aircraft with its country of registry, ICAO type designator, an embedded resolved aircraft type, operator, owner, serial number and Mode-S hex address. A registration is a slot rather than a permanent name: marks are surrendered and reissued. N803AL was one airframe from 1987 to 1993 and a different one, a 787-8, from 2015; N264CP moved

Parse flight identifier

Split a flight designator into carrier and number, and identify the carrier. Accepts the forms that arrive in real message traffic: TK1979, BAW276, "U2 8341", BA02490, BA2490A. Returns the parsed carrier with its resolved airline, the flight number, any operational suffix, which scheme was used (IATA or ICAO), and both normalised forms. Two things this tool will not do. It will not tell you who operated the flight: a designator names the marketing carrier, and a codeshare is invisible in the s

Validate identifiers

Do these aviation identifiers describe the same thing on this date? Give any combination of a registration (tail number), a Mode-S 24-bit address, an ICAO type designator, an operator name, an airline designator (IATA or ICAO), a callsign and a flight designator, plus `as_of`. Each pair that can be checked is checked, and every check comes back with a verdict -- `consistent`, `contradicted` or `unverifiable` -- the detail, and the rule that decided it. `contradictions` lists the failures on the

Report unmet need

Tell us what you came looking for and could not get from these tools. Call this when you needed something aviation-related that this toolset did not give you. It is not an error channel and it is not a retry: it is how the next version of these tools learns what is missing. A need reported here is read by a person. Use it when: - a tool returned `unresolved` and you believe the thing exists - a tool returned `ambiguous` and nothing available could break the tie - the entity resolved but

Use-case landscape

How many use cases are there, sliced one way? Counts you can quote. `group_by` is one of org_type (16 canonical organisation types: Airport, Airline, Air Navigation Service Provider, Ground Handling, Regulator / Authority, Aerospace Manufacturing, MRO / Maintenance …), sector, role (500+ roles), ai_level, hazard_class, or cadence_class (counts data requirements rather than use cases). Filters AND together and apply before grouping, so group_by=role with org_type=Airport lists airport roles by h

Search use cases

Which aviation AI use cases match this text? Find candidates by keyword. Full-text search (BM25, stemmed) over 6,500 use cases spanning airports, airlines, ANSPs, ground handlers, regulators, manufacturers and more, each attached to a role and an organisation type. Returns summaries only -- id, short text, role, organisation type, EASA screen -- capped at 25. Use get_use_case for the full record with its data requirements. Search concrete operational nouns ("stand allocation", "baggage misconn

Get use case

The full record for one use case, by id from a search or landscape result. Returns the use-case text; the role that owns it with its description; the organisation type (canonical and as the corpus names it); every data requirement -- title, description, nominal update rate with a normalised cadence class (real_time … annual), and the kind of system it typically comes from; the EASA screen (AI level, hazard class, confidence, rationale) with the framework rows it points at, page-cited; keywords;

Similar use cases

What else in the catalogue is like this use case? Nearest neighbours by meaning. Returns up to 20 use cases closest in embedding space (bge-base cosine over the use-case text), as summaries with a `similarity`. Good for "what else is like the one we picked", for finding the same idea stated for a different role or organisation type, and for spotting near-duplicates before counting them as two. Similarities are compressed into roughly 0.5-0.95: rank within one result, never threshold across the

Data requirements

What data does this use case, role or organisation type need, and how fresh? Three modes. With `use_case_id`: that use case's requirements verbatim -- title, normalised title_family, description, nominal update rate, normalised cadence class and the kind of source system. With `query`: REVERSE lineage -- full-text search over requirement titles and descriptions (the inputs, not the use-case text), returning the use cases that CONSUME data matching the query. Ask `query="taxi-out time"` to get e

Trace data lineage

Which standard operational messages would evidence this data need? The lineage spine is use case -> data requirement -> requirement family -> standard message type -> data elements. Four modes. With `use_case_id`: that use case's requirements grouped by family, each family with the standard messages that evidence it (relevance primary/supporting, cadence, element count) -- plus `requirements_without_standard_messages`, the needs no standard message covers, which is the honest feed-gap statement

Trace operational workflow

What happens before and after this use case, and who hands off to whom? The catalogue is otherwise flat -- role, use case, data requirement -- with no edges. This is the edges: named operational sequences with their steps in order, the role at each step, the `gate` that must hold before the next one may start, and what passes between roles at each handoff (headset, radio, hand signal, system, visual, document, verbal, formal correspondence). Three modes. With `use_case_id`: every workflow that

EASA AI framework screen

The EASA AI-level and hazard-class tables, page-cited, to read a screen against. Returns the AI levels (0, 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B: what the system does and how much authority the end user keeps), the hazard classes (H1-H5: worst credible effect and the assurance level it implies at acceptable and moderate risk), the technique ceilings (which AI techniques the Concept Paper accepts up to which level), and source notes. Pass `level` or `hazard_class` for one row. Every row carries `cp_ref`, the p

Airport network integration

What level of network integration does this airport have with the EUROCONTROL Network Manager, or with the FAA's TFDM programme, as of a date? Answers with one value: `ani` (Advanced Network Integrated: A-CDM with the higher level of integration), `acdm` (all DPI message types sent to the network, so a TOBT and TSAT stream exists), `adv_twr` (Advanced ATC TWR: E-DPI, C-DPI and A-DPI only, no TOBT or TSAT stream), `tfdm_a` or `tfdm_b` (FAA Terminal Flight Data Manager configurations), `standard`

Airport operator

Who operates this airport, which group would take the commercial meeting, and who owns it? Returns operator_name, operator_group (the parent that a sales or partnership conversation lands with, spelled consistently: Aena, MAG, Groupe ADP, Fraport, VINCI Airports, Adani and so on), ownership_class (public-national, public-regional, private-group, private-individual, concession-mixed or unknown), owner_name, concession_end_year where a public page states it, and the listed parent and ticker where

Airport operations status

Is there a positive, sourced reason this airport is not open for ordinary commercial engagement: closed to civil traffic, in a sanctioned jurisdiction, or a general-aviation field with no scheduled service? Returns `closed` (no civil passenger operations), `restricted` (the airport operates but sits under UK sanctions guidance for its jurisdiction, with the guidance page cited), `general-aviation` (no scheduled passenger service), or `no_exception_recorded`. The last is exactly that: this datas

Airport connectivity

How many nonstop destinations does this airport publish, and in which countries? Returns the count of nonstop destinations from the airport's published destination table, the number resolved to a country, the destinations by country, and the counts to the United States, the Gulf and the UAE, with the date of the read. This is presence, not frequency: one weekly seasonal service and a daily trunk route count the same. It is right for "does this airport connect to the US at all" and wrong for "h

Airport size band

Which ACI passenger size band is this airport in, on its latest published annual total? Returns the passengers figure, its year, and the band on ACI World's published ASQ size categories: under 2M, 2 to 5M, 5 to 15M, 15 to 25M, 25 to 40M, over 40M passengers per year. The figure comes from the airport's Wikipedia infobox (its latest published annual total), not from ACI, so airports are not on a common year; the year travels with the answer, and a figure dated the current year is flagged as pro

Submit suggestion

Leave a suggestion for Airside Labs. No API key is needed for this tool. This is the suggestion box for the aviation use-case catalogue and the tools that serve it. If you are an AI agent that read a use-case page on airsidelabs.com — or called a tool here — and noticed something, this is the channel: a correction to a published use case, an aviation AI use case the catalogue is missing, a data source or requirement it should know about, a tool or field that would have helped you, or commercial

Feedback status

What happened to a suggestion or unmet-need report filed here? No API key is needed. Pass the `fingerprint` from a submit_suggestion or report_unmet_need receipt (12 hex characters). Returns `status`: `shipped` (a person acted on it and the change is live, with what shipped and when), `declined` (read and not taken up, with the reason), `acknowledged` (read, still open) or `open` (recorded, not yet reviewed), or `unknown_fingerprint` if nothing was ever filed under it. `times_reported` says how