FltPlan.com's Participation in the FAA's Traffic Flow Management System (TFMS)

The FAA’s Traffic Flow Management System (TFMS) allows you to have your flight data available up to 22 hours in advance of your scheduled departure time.

Data from your flight plans will be combined with other data (airline schedules, weather, ATC constraints, etc.), and used for the planning of Ground Delay Programs (GDP), Expect Departure Clearance Times (EDCT), miles-in-trail, and possible departure/arrival re-routes to/from the busiest airports. Outside busy terminal areas, your data will be used for en route congestion monitoring, and possible advanced re-routing.

This is what we ask of you:

• If you are planning on flying a trip, select your flight plan for filing more than 22 hours in advance.
  • If your departure time changes, FltPlan.com will automatically send a message to the FAA's TFMS and notify them of your amended departure time.
  • The FAA would rather know that you are departing point A to point B sometime in the morning, rather than find out at the last minute.

• If your trip cancels, cancel your flight plan on FltPlan.com.
  • If the flight plan has not been filed, then just unselect the checkbox and click the Press Here When Done button.
  • If the flight plan has already been filed
    •  Go to the DELETE FLT PLAN section (left side of Main Menu page) and delete the flight. Or
    •  Modify the flight plan and save the flight plan without selecting File This checkbox.