Thursday, September 10, 2026
Business Honor

Metron Aviation is a trustworthy and established provider of Air Traffic Management (ATM) and Air Traffic Flow Management (ATFM) solutions for the worldwide aviation industry. Providing advanced, customized technologies, helping in handling the complex and constantly changing demands of air traffic operations. Major organizations like the FAA, NASA, and NAV CANADA are among its clients, along with air navigation service providers (ANSPs), airlines, airports, and civil aviation authorities.
The establishment of the Flight Schedule Monitor (FSM), that became active throughout the FAA system, is one of its major achievements. FSM is currently used by local as well as international airlines and supports operations at more than 100 FAA facilities. Air traffic operations become better overall, with fewer delays and reduced fuel costs due to these tools. In 2011, Metron Aviation became part of Airbus, allowing it to grow its worldwide relations and connect deeper with current aircraft and computing technology. Now active on six continents, the business works with partners around the world to deal with today’s most difficult air traffic issues. Metron Aviation is dedicated to supporting the safe, successful, and sustainable management of international airspace by highlighting innovation, collaboration, and performance.
Solutions Offered by Metron Aviation
Harmony
A complete Air Traffic Flow Management (ATFM) solution, the Harmony system allows collaboration and the exchange of flight data among aviation partners. At airports and in the airspace, it finds and corrects demand-capacity imbalances. Making it easy for air navigation service providers (ANSPs) to react quickly to the changing conditions like hiring, technical problems, traffic volumes, and weather. At the local, regional, and international levels, Harmony offers a shared and complete view of air traffic, both present and future. Helping to detect issues early by predicting the arrivals, departures, and flights that pass using data from various aviation sources. With automated tools, it allows users to work together and develop fair, effective plans for increased capacity and traffic management.
Finding limits and capacity, predicting demand, and testing several situations are Harmony's main characteristics. The system has several advantages, like reducing the use of airports and airspace, increasing safety, and supporting environmental goals, while reducing traffic-related delays. Improving the safety and operations of air traffic worldwide by developing teamwork and offering continuous awareness.
Horizon
Metron Aviation’s Horizon system offers a complete view of air traffic operations, supporting the detection of any limitations in airport or airspace capacities. Using expected, planned, and real data, Horizon is a cloud-based solution, improving teamwork by sharing accurate data on arriving, departing, and air traffic. Horizon allows initial operational and strategic planning, improving accuracy in airspace and at airports while making demand management simpler. Offering users a number of ways to track traffic while creating plans by showing data in various formats, like maps, graphs, and aircraft lists.
Predicting arrivals, reducing delays, detecting the limits, and immediately analyzing custom airspace are some of the key features. Major advantages of Horizon include improved efficiency, reduced costs, teamwork, and environmentalism. Supporting the aviation sector to make better decisions while handling air traffic flow. By offering accurate data and knowledge of operations. This is especially important as traffic continues to recover and increase.
P.O.E.T.
P.O.E.T. is an analysis tool for data, helping airlines and air navigation service providers improve their operations and flight efficiency. Transforming complex operational data into simple, useful findings that help users detect problems, get opportunities, and improve performance. Planned flights and actual events between gate departure and arrival are compared by P.O.E.T. Its simple, search-based interface allows users to measure the impact of Air Traffic Management (ATM) investments or changes, analyze performance over the airspace system, and detect delays or problems.
P.O.E.T. combines historical and current information using sources like the FAA's SWIM feed and other worldwide ATFM systems. Using the ICAO's ATFM important performance metrics, it creates full reports that help users in reducing fuel costs, improving their environmental impact, and improving maintenance management. It provides users with an in-depth understanding of flight and traffic flow, allowing them to make decisions more quickly and with greater understanding. It allows continuous improvement of everyday operations and increases situational awareness. ANSPs and airlines benefit greatly from P.O.E.T., helping them run better, reduce expenses, and maintain their level of competition in a rapidly changing aviation industry.
Chris Jordan | President
Chris Jordan is the President of Metron Aviation with more than 22 years at the company and has worked in modern technology for 28 years. Jordan has served in important roles like Chief Information Officer and Vice President of Business Development. He has a bachelor's degree in information systems management from Liberty University and is an experienced tech expert.