Processes

Manage ramp operations

How manage ramp operations are reshaped as AGI capability advances.

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Manage ramp operations — illustrated

The bottom line

Only about 15% of Manage ramp operations is information work today — the rest is physical, and moves slowly. The exposure is concentrated in the back office: the books, the paperwork, the scheduling, the marketing.

Why: Because no child occupations are seeded, this score relies on the process description and lens. The description explicitly defines the work as the provisioning of catering, cabin-cleaning, fueling, water servicing, and aircraft de-icing. These are highly physical, hands-on tasks performed outdoors on the tarmac using heavy machinery, meaning AI can only orchestrate the scheduling but cannot execute the value-producing work.

grounded in the economy graph · digital scalar 0.15 · physical

Business-as-Code

Read as an executable program — the work decomposed into Code, Generative, Agentic, and Human.

Manage ramp operations sits inside a larger value-flow — 1 parent structure it composes into. The hierarchy is grounding, not the story: it tells you which aggregate exposure Manage ramp operations inherits.

Where Manage ramp operations sits

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How the work flows

Trigger: An aircraft arrives at the gate and shuts down its engines, initiating the ground turnaround period.

  1. Position ground support equipment around the aircraft
  2. Offload inbound baggage and cargo
  3. Replenish catering supplies and service potable water and waste systems
  4. Perform cabin cleaning and restock amenities
  5. Refuel the aircraft according to the required flight plan
  6. Apply de-icing fluid to the aircraft if dictated by weather conditions
  7. Load outbound baggage and cargo before removing equipment for pushback

Outcome: The aircraft is fully provisioned, serviced, cleaned, and cleared for pushback and its next flight.

Measured by

Aircraft Turn TimeOn-Time Departure RateGround Damage IncidentsRamp Service Cost Per Flight