CHIMP: The Digital Backbone of Flight Operations

Central Platform for Operational Flight Data

With CHIMP (Collaboration & Insights Airport Management Platform), Munich Airport is modernising its operational IT landscape and laying the foundation for connected, data-driven flight operations. As the central platform for operational flight data, CHIMP brings together information from different systems and is gradually evolving into a common data foundation for all stakeholders involved in flight operations. This ensures that all partners and departments have access to the same up-to-date information and can make decisions based on a consistent and shared information base.

The technological foundation is the AIRHART platform, which is already in use at international airports. Munich Airport is therefore building on a proven standard solution that can be flexibly adapted to its own operational requirements. The platform approach reduces development and operating efforts, creates synergies between applications, and provides the basis for efficient and future-ready flight operations. CHIMP thus serves as the central digital foundation for the continued development of operational processes at Munich Airport.

  • Aerial view of Terminal 1 apron

Co-funded by the European Union

The project is co-funded by the European Union under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) programme. The funding supports projects aimed at the digitalisation and further development of air transport, with the objective of optimising operational processes, increasing the efficiency of existing infrastructure, and contributing to a high-performing and sustainable European transport network.