System and method for modelling a flight and invoicing the flight providers for services used

摘要

A system for modelling a flight of an aircraft is disclosed. The system includes at least one data acquisition system for sourcing flight details from at least one data source and a processing system for compiling a flight model from the flight details. The flight details represent the activity of the aircraft within a single flight information region (hereinafter FIR). The flight model indicates the activity of the aircraft over the duration of the flight in two or more FIRs or for an entire flight undertaken in a single FIR. By using the flight details, the processing system is capable of determining utilised services from available services, within a the FIR, to the flight.