Assaia Launches Stand and Gate Optimization Solution as Airports Face Growing Capacity Pressure
Assaia announces the launch of StandManager, a Resource Management System (RMS) that leverages the latest AI technology to help airports determine where aircraft should park and for how long.
Zurich, Switzerland – March 11, 2026 - Assaia, the leader in AI-powered turnaround optimization solutions, is announcing the launch of StandManager, a Resource Management System (RMS) that leverages the latest AI technology to help airports determine where aircraft should park and for how long.
Christiaan Hen, CEO, Assaia, explains the technology: “Airports historically allocated stands and gates using fixed buffer times, scheduled flight data, and manual processes. StandManager replaces this approach with a solution that continuously analyzes live operational information to automate the stand and gate allocation process and calculate predictive buffers for each flight. For example, if the model identifies that a flight is likely to arrive 10 minutes early or late, the stand plan automatically reallocates gates to optimize within the airports rule set. By adjusting buffers dynamically rather than relying on fixed assumptions, airports can make better use of available capacity.”
Officially launched ahead of Passenger Terminal World 2026 in London, StandManager complements Assaia’s ApronAI solution, which uses computer vision to monitor aircraft turnarounds and predict milestones such as off-block times. Used together, the systems connect real-time turnaround performance, towing status, and delay predictions directly to stand allocation decisions.
Purposefully built for today’s airport environment where growing traffic and constrained infrastructure limit flexibility, StandManager is designed as an AI-based platform that continuously processes live operational data to optimize stand and gate allocation as conditions change.
Assaia's StandManager solution interface
Hen adds: “With global passenger growth expected to double by 2053, traffic numbers are outpacing infrastructure development, and airports are facing sustained capacity pressures. By replacing fixed buffers with dynamic predictive buffers, airports can reduce idle time between aircraft arrivals and increase effective stand capacity by up to 5%, without adding new infrastructure.”
Assaia has partnered with Transformers Group to deliver the platform, combining Assaia’s operational AI expertise with Transformers Group’s experience in building open-architecture RMS solutions.
Bram Kok, Managing Director, Transformers Group, says: “Stand planning is still too often managed through static rules and disconnected solutions. When delays arise, teams must respond under time pressure, often without complete visibility into the real-time situation and its potential impacts. The combination of AI Agents and airport specific optimization strategies supports data driven decisions when conditions change.”
With StandManager, Assaia expands beyond turnaround visibility into broader airport resource optimization, linking real-time apron performance directly with stand and asset allocation.
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It is our firm belief that the future of aviation should be free of delays.
With this in mind, for the past year, Assaia has hosted a bi-monthly Roundtable for airline representatives to discuss ramp safety, including the challenges experienced post-Covid, such as staff turnover, a lack of experienced staff, and time pressures for the ramp crew. With the recent FAA mandate on Safety Management Systems (SMS), Assaia has just opened up the Roundtable to airports to facilitate increased collaboration.
Roundtable discussions have affirmed the importance of using data-driven solutions to move away from manual monitoring and toward real-time automated intervention to prevent incidents and improve behavior. At the recent American Airlines safety management system conference, Assaia discussed computer vision's potential as a tool to strengthen SMS strategies. Airline safety experts agreed that real-time automated alerts are the way forward to improve safety and facilitate safety-aware behavior. Analyzing and understanding historical data can help advance regulations and standard operating procedures
SMS strategies. Airline safety experts agreed that real-time automated alerts are the way forward to improve safety and facilitate safety-aware behavior. Analyzing and understanding historical data can help advance regulations and standard operating procedures
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It is our firm belief that the future of aviation should be free of delays.
With this in mind, for the past year, Assaia has hosted a bi-monthly Roundtable for airline representatives to discuss ramp safety, including the challenges experienced post-Covid, such as staff turnover, a lack of experienced staff, and time pressures for the ramp crew. With the recent FAA mandate on Safety Management Systems (SMS), Assaia has just opened up the Roundtable to airports to facilitate increased collaboration.
Roundtable discussions have affirmed the importance of using data-driven solutions to move away from manual monitoring and toward real-time automated intervention to prevent incidents and improve behavior. At the recent American Airlines safety management system conference, Assaia discussed computer vision's potential as a tool to strengthen SMS strategies. Airline safety experts agreed that real-time automated alerts are the way forward to improve safety and facilitate safety-aware behavior. Analyzing and understanding historical data can help advance regulations and standard operating procedures.
With this in mind, for the past year, Assaia has hosted a bi-monthly Roundtable for airline representatives to discuss ramp safety, including the challenges experienced post-Covid, such as staff turnover, a lack of experienced staff, and time pressures for the ramp crew. With the recent FAA mandate on Safety Management Systems (SMS), Assaia has just opened up the Roundtable to airports to facilitate increased collaboration.
Roundtable discussions have affirmed the importance of using data-driven solutions to move away from manual monitoring and toward real-time automated intervention to prevent incidents and improve behavior.
At the recent American Airlines safety management system conference, Assaia discussed computer vision's potential as a tool to strengthen SMS strategies.
Roundtable discussions have affirmed the importance of using data-driven solutions to move away
Roundtable discussions have affirmed the importance of using data-driven solutions to move away
At the recent American Airlines safety management system conference, Assaia discussed computer vision's potential as a tool to strengthen SMS strategies. Airline safety experts agreed that real-time automated alerts are the way forward to improve safety and facilitate safety-aware behavior. Analyzing and understanding historical data can help advance regulations and standard operating procedures.
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With this in mind, for the past year, Assaia has hosted a bi-monthly Roundtable for airline representatives to discuss ramp safety, including the challenges experienced post-Covid, such as staff turnover, a lack of experienced staff, and time pressures for the ramp crew. With the recent FAA mandate on Safety Management Systems (SMS), Assaia has just opened up the Roundtable to airports to facilitate increased collaboration.
Roundtable discussions have affirmed the importance of using data-driven solutions to move away from manual monitoring and toward real-time automated intervention to prevent incidents and improve behavior.
Side image goes here
At the recent American Airlines safety management system conference, Assaia discussed computer vision's potential as a tool to strengthen SMS strategies. Airline safety experts agreed that real-time automated alerts are the way forward to improve safety and facilitate safety-aware behavior. Analyzing and understanding historical data can help advance regulations and standard operating procedures.
This is a key moment in revolutionising our operations thanks to AI. As a strategic partner of Assaia, we wil be able to improve Airport Collaborative Decision-Making (A-CDM) through more accurate predictive off block time (POBT). This will significantly improve the passenger experience as well as streamlining our processes and optimizing our turnarounds. For a busy international airport like FCO potential delays have a knock-on effect across the apron.
Ivan Bassato
Chief Aviation Officer, Aeroporti di Roma
We are proud to back Assaia as an investor via ADR Ventures and join its Strategic Partner Community. Our vision for the airport of the future, puts innovation firmly at the core, that’s why we partnered with Assaia during our accelerator program and want to continue to be integrally involved in optimizing turnaround technology with Assaia, bringing increased efficiency, safety, and sustainability to our airports and helping others improve.
Emanuele Calà
Vice President Innovation & Quality of Aeroporti di Roma
We’re an airport with a large proportion of point-to-point traffic. This means we see aircraft based at BER several times a day, making quick and reliable turnarounds a key success factor for us. Having completed the full rollout of Assaia’s ApronAI last year, we can focus on the turnaround more than ever. Providing this transparency and live visibility to our ground handling partners is a real booster to operational cooperation.
Holger Wieck
SVP Aviation, Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg GmbH
Using technology to move the aviation industry forward is in Alaska’s DNA, our teams have already been using Assaia to improve our aircraft turn processes, and we’re thrilled to help expand technology that will make us safer, more efficient, and offer an even better guest experience. This partnership represents the future of machine learning applications in aviation and will translate into significant advances in our industry.
Pasha Saleh
Corporate Development Director, Alaska Airlines
The use of Assaia's TurnaroundControl has provided our Airline Partners, Ground Handlers, and Service Providers with full visibility of the aircraft turn processes. The data, predictability, and visibility enhances our collective efficiency and resilience at Toronto Pearson. Paired with our A-CDM initiative, Assaia's TurnaroundControl provides crucial data driving A-CDM processes, a reduction in turn times, and a noticeable increase in on-time performance.
Dean Wright
Associate Director, Gating & Airport Flow
The way Turnaround 2.0 uses AI and machine learning to boost our zone controllers' efficiency is remarkable. They can now manage multiple gate activities with more focus on handling exceptions, rather than multitasking.
Turnaround 2.0 is more than a tool for the present; it's a foundation for 'United Next,' growing with us and helping us surpass our operational goals efficiently.
Daniel Reed
Director of Station Operations, United Airlines
Our focus is to use innovation to make our operations smoother. We have selected Assaia because of the capabilities of the tool. But it is also really important for us that it has a good record of successful implementation, so we know it will deliver for us, for our airlines and ultimately for our passengers.
Dr Babett Stapel
Managing Director, Fraport Slovenjia
We are optimizing all our processes on the apron to shorten the time each aircraft needs to be on the ground, which benefits both our passengers and our airline partners. This is a common issue across our airports and we are talking to all of them about this technology.
Claus Grunow
VP of Corporate Strategy and Digitalization at Fraport
We are pleased to partner with Assaia to implement the ApronAI Turnaround Control solution at T4. This new solution will not only optimize operations and our work with our business partners, but will also help us to ensure a first-class customer experience at T4.
Roel Huinink
President and CEO, JFKIAT
The real-time and historical insights that can inform both airport and airline operations make this solution a clear winner for everyone.
Craig Paul
Director of Technology & Innovation , Halifax Stanfield International
Assaia's product allows airports and airlines to collect, track, and analyze data in real time; this innovation removes inefficiencies and optimizes performance.
Jim Lockheed
JetBlue Ventures
We’re creating the airport of the future, and innovation in apron operations will directly improve the passenger experience. We are laser focused on innovations that will make Pearson and its whole apron ecosystem more efficient while reducing our carbon footprint.
Deborah Flint
President and CEO GTAA
SEA needed an innovative solution to our capacity problem and have worked with Assaia to optimize the turnaround process resulting in reduced taxi times and increased passenger satisfaction. Assaia has exceeded our expectations, consistently delivering on-time & on-budget.
Samer Tirhi
Airline Scheduling Coordinator, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport
With the help of Predicted Off Block Time from Assaia. JFKIAT Operations can be proactive to reduce or eliminate any delays and gate holds
Stephen Tukavkin
VP IT & Digital, JFKIAT
We are proud to be partnering with the Assaia team in our mission to use technology to improve the efficiency and safety of the airport environment.
Raghbir S. Pattar
Director of Airports Transformation, IAG
I had mentioned before, great innovation on your part. With these types of improvements, T4 is always leading at JFK. Thank you
COPA Station Manager
JFKIAT
We’re working hard on becoming an airport of the future, and this involves rethinking every part of our ground operations. Assaia’s ApronAI is an integral component of our vision for the ramp of the future.
Abhi Chacko
Head of Innovation & Commercial IT Services, Gatwick Airport
Assaia’s technology adds critical data points to CVG’s early-stage neural network for operational advancements. Structured data generated by artificial intelligence will provide information to make decisions, optimize airside processes, and improve efficiency and safety.
Brian Cobb
CIO, CVG Airport
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