Commercial Fixed Wing
Dispatch Dispatcher
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
Procedure; Company Policy; Equipment / Tooling
Once again I was alerted to a need for a radio number (callsign) way too late in the process by [the Dispatch Computer]/Dispatch View. Despite the release notes for Dispatch View (version 1.1) saying the radio number conflict alert issue was resolved; it clearly was not! My flight [123] pushed on time. Unknown to me there was a late inbound [123] ETA 20 minutes later. I was alerted by the system just four minutes prior. So two [123]'s in the airspace at the same time; both in sterile cockpit. I sent a message to my outbound [123] to make him aware and told him to use extreme caution for next few minutes until the other [123] was on ground and at gate. This needs to be fixed ASAP before we have an accident!
Dispatcher reports that his dispatch computer does not alert in a timely manner when flight delays will cause two aircraft with the same flight number to be in the same airspace.