Systems, Methods, and Machine-Readable Storage Media for Interfacing with a Computer Flight System

1 . A method, comprising:

maintaining, via a data processing system, a pool of provisional flights;

receiving a bid or a booking; and

in response to receiving the bid or the booking, modifying at least one booking class inventory for at least one flight in the pool of provisional flights.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein each flight in the pool of provisional flights shares no physical flight leg with any other flight in the pool of provisional flights.

3 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining, via the data processing system, a plurality of cost data based on the bid or the booking.

4 . The method of claim 3 , wherein the modifying is performed based on the plurality of cost data.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one booking class inventory is at least two booking class inventories, which include a first booking class inventory for a first flight and a second booking class inventory for a second flight of the pool of provisional flights, and wherein the at least two booking class inventories are mutually dependent on an inventory of one or more available aircraft.

6 . The method of claim 5 , wherein the at least two booking class inventories are mutually dependent because the modifying at least one booking class inventory may be performed based on a change in operating cost or availability of the inventory of one or more available aircraft.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein a booking on a first flight of the pool of provisional flights affects physical operation of a second flight of the pool of provisional flights.

8 . A method, comprising:

publishing a flight schedule containing a plurality of flights with a number of flights that is greater than a number of possible flights that may be flown by a plurality of aircraft;

receiving an indication of a newly-placed booking on a first aircraft flight;

determining, via a data processing system, that the booking causes a commitment to operate the first aircraft flight with an unknown aircraft of a plurality of aircraft for which bids have been received; and

instructing, based on the commitment to operate, a computer flight system to modify the operational status of a second aircraft flight such that the second aircraft flight will not operate.

9 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the first aircraft flight and the second aircraft flight are included in a flight schedule, the method further comprising:

publishing the flight schedule with a flight publishing system before receiving the indication of the newly-placed booking of the first aircraft flight.

10 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the determining is performed in response to the receiving the indication of the newly-placed booking.

11 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the newly-placed booking is an initial booking on the first aircraft flight.

12 . The method of claim 8 , further comprising:

calculating, via the data processing system, a cost to operate the second aircraft flight based on the commitment;

wherein the instructing is performed further based on the cost.