Warning: Implement custom ui for this post type.

ALAFCO selects AerData’s CMS and AerData Financials software

Photo/Image © ALAFCO

 
Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 29th February 2016 – AerData, the provider of lease management, records management and engine fleet planning software, announced today at the ISTAT Americas 2016 Annual Conference that ALAFCO Aviation Lease and Finance Company, has chosen AerData’s Corporate Management System (CMS) to support their fleet of over 50 aircraft.
 
AerData’s Corporate Management System (CMS) is an industry leading platform that supports all business processes in aircraft leasing and asset management.
 
Commenting on the announcement, Mark Nieuwendijk, Managing Director of AerData said “We are pleased to announce ALAFCO as our newest CMS customer. ALAFCO, in choosing AerData, will realize the many benefits of using our industry standard lease and asset management platform to expand their business.”

Commsoft celebrates 40th Anniversary at OASES User Group




Press Release – 29th February 2016



Commsoft, developers of OASES, will be officially celebrating the 40th anniversary of this industry-leading MRO IT system at this year’s OASES User Group being held at the Radisson Edwardian Hotel at London Heathrow on the 1st and 2nd of March 2016.



Founded as a software house in 1971, Communications Software (Airline Systems) Limited won its first airline contract in 1975 with industry innovator Laker Airways in the UK, leading to the launch of the predecessor to OASES (Open Aviation Strategic Engineering System) the following year. Since then, Commsoft has been continually developing its MRO IT system, now called OASES – a process that has been shaped in large part by feedback from its User Group clients.

Co-founder and Chairman, Gary Pollak commented “When I founded the company with my late partner Dick Rawcliffe during a cultural period of ‘Boom and Bust’, it was our vision to create a professional organisation based on principles of honesty, integrity, quality, service and friendliness that would face the test of time. I am proud that we still hold these tenets true and recognised by our many loyal customers who have honoured us with their business, trust and friendship for these many years and those who have more recently joined the Commsoft family.”



A ‘best-of-breed’ system, OASES offers an industry-leading technical sophistication whilst being intuitively user-friendly and, to allow for scalability, is structured in a modular format. At the heart of the OASES system is the Core Module which provides the essential system components that enable the operation and integration of the OASES functional modules – Continuing Airworthiness, Planning, Production, Line Maintenance, Material Management, Commercial Management and Warranty – any or all of which can be added depending on the client’s requirements.



The success of OASES is reflected in the 65 current contracts that Commsoft has won worldwide, often in the face of stiff competition, more than doubling the customer base in the last seven years. In 2015 alone, the maintenance of over 100 additional aircraft was entrusted to the system. Today, the OASES community includes more than 90 aviation customers around the world, ranging from national carriers and large third-party maintenance providers to small independent operators.



The recent introduction of the OASES Private Cloud has brought the system within reach of smaller clients who are now able to benefit from the full extent of OASES functionality without the need to make a major investment in new hardware. It also means that the benefits can be made available more rapidly as the hosting infrastructure – dual redundant, geographically separate, dedicated servers – is already in place.



Other recent OASES developments include the launch of the first of a range of new OASES Mobile Apps, allowing information to be accessed anywhere, anytime. This innovation is also a good example of the close cooperation that Commsoft encourages with its client base and was just one of several improvements and developments made to OASES during 2015 as a result of frequent customer community exchanges and detailed analysis of service requests in the highly-successful web-based OASES Servicedesk.



To support the growing global community of OASES users, Commsoft has expanded its network of offices. The company’s Head Office remains in Tiptree in Essex. As Commsoft’s Managing Director, Nick Godwin, has observed: “We aim to put Tiptree on the map beyond the famous, locally-produced jams.” But in addition, there are now regional offices in Derby and other UK locations as well as an office in Australia and support partners in India, Romania and Singapore.

 

2015 also saw the launch of a new corporate identity as part of a strategy to ensure a clear and consistent image across all media. A new logo was introduced to project a more modern feel whilst still retaining a link to the heritage of OASES. In addition, the identity has been carried through to a new-look website – optimised for SEO and for mobile platforms and better integrated with social media. A progressive updating of all OASES product and marketing literature is also underway.



Commenting on the 40th anniversary, Nick Godwin said: “In celebrating 40 years of aviation maintenance IT excellence, we can look back on a long history of technological achievement as well as forward to the ongoing development of this truly ‘best of breed’ system and an ever growing global community of OASES users.”

Analysis Of Inflight Wi-Fi On Long-Haul Aircraft Puts 11 SITAONAIR Customers In Top 20

Independent analysis by Routehappy on the state of inflight Wi-Fi has placed 11 SITAONAIR customers in the world’s top 20 for long-haul flights.

According to the annual, independent and authoritative Routehappy ‘Global State of inflight Wi-Fi’ report, SITAONAIR customer Emirates topped the list, with over 35 million available seat miles (ASMs) with in-flight Wi-Fi.

Routehappy calculated this was “nearly double the long-haul ASMs with Wi-Fi than any other airline.”

Indeed, the report’s listed 11 SITAONAIR airlines customers collectively deliver over 90 of the 165 million available seat miles.

Routhappy has placed 11 SITAONAIR customers among its top 20 long-haul fleets for available seat miles – (c) Routehappy February 2016.

SITAONAIR customers also performed strongly in Routehappy’s subsequent analysis into the proportion of the airlines’ long-haul fleets. This featured nine of the top 20, including Russia’s flagship carrier, Aeroflot, in second place. Aeroflot (at 98%) was one of only five airlines to provide Wi-Fi on over 90% of its fleet.

The analysis examined 60 airlines, and the report is indicative of the importance Wi-Fi now plays in delivering a good passenger experience. Additional independent surveys have even placed it ahead of legroom. And the list correlates well with the World Airline Awards’ 2015 rankings, with seven of the Awards’ top eight also cited by Routehappy.

Routhappy’s report stated that globally, 36% of ASMs now offer Wi-Fi for passengers, with 6% of these ASMs deploying high-bandwidth technologies, which enables even video streaming. And just 41% use basic, low-bandwidth technologies.

The report also gave reason for passenger to celebrate, stating that the majority of airline installations are deploying “better or best connectivity systems, which have become more prevalent than basic times.”

Francois Rodriguez, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer, SITAONAIR said: “These top 20s all have one thing in common, they all focus on passenger experience to ensure customer loyalty and increase auxiliary revenues.
   
“Digitization – through systems like Mobile OnAir and Internet OnAir – is bringing major changes to how passengers spend their time during the flight and it is revolutionizing how airlines operate.

“As these airlines are showing, it improves the passenger experience and presents significant opportunities for airlines to streamline operations and improve efficiencies. SITAONAIR is playing a central role in helping airlines move towards the digitization of the aircraft, from nose to tail.”

PACE now offers app for aircraft route network analysis

February 26, 2016 – Pacelab Route Network Analyzer calculates and benchmarks the performance of different aircraft types in customer-specific operational scenarios.

Aerospace software provider PACE has announced the availability of Windows 10 app Pacelab RNA, a mobile spin-off of the company’s aircraft economics and route network analysis tool. The app evaluates how different aircraft will perform on given flight routes and provides key figures such as fuel burn, payload capacity and maximum range to airline fleet planners and aircraft sales teams.

Designed to support a highly visual options configuration and analysis process, the lightweight app allows the quick set-up and evaluation of different operational scenarios, making it an invaluable asset for meetings or expos. PACE will showcase its latest portfolio addition at a series of upcoming events and conferences, inviting attendees to explore and experience Pacelab RNA first hand. The introduction tour kicks off at the Aerospace & Defense Supplier Summit in Seattle in mid-April.

EXSYN spreads its wings to the United States

Data migration project at United Express – operated by CommutAir

Schiphol-Rijk, 25 February 2016 – United Express, operated by CommutAir has signed up with EXSYN’s solution platform. CommutAir has subscribed TITAN to help them phase-in the recently obtained Embraer 145 aircrafts into their MRO system. CommutAir has approached EXSYN to perform the data migration and system setup of their AMOS system in order to manage this new fleet. EXSYN will prepare the initial setup for the management of the Embraer 145 fleet and load the first delivered ERJ-145 aircraft tail data required into AMOS. After the initial setup CommutAir will continue to operate the TITAN framework for the phase-in of all remaining ERJ145 aircraft.

Ramco Systems partners with Aviation MRO Marketplace, Aeroxchange



To deliver seamless integration between the two platforms



Texas, United States/ Chennai, India – February 24, 2016 – The global Aviation software provider on Cloud, Mobile & Tablets, partners with Aeroxchange, industry’s leading electronic business network supporting all MRO business processes for buyers and sellers within the aviation industry.

Through this partnership and integration, customers using Ramco’s next-gen Aviation enterprise software, can now purchase components and repair services on Aeroxchange’s platform. In addition to product integration, both organizations will leverage each other’s strong network to make further inroads into the Aviation MRO market.

Sourcing of maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) goods has been a complex and cumbersome process. By bringing buyers and sellers on a digital platform, Aeroxchange helps bring about supply chain efficiencies. By integrating Aeroxchange with Ramco Aviation Suite, customers will now be able to seamlessly leverage the power of a marketplace without having to shift screens. Ramco Aviation users will be able to oversee maintenance orders and shipments, as well as submit status updates and supplier invoices.

Under the agreement, both parties will mutually support and develop a standardised connection between their respective software, in order to enable Ramco customers to manage their supply chain transactions electronically, via AeroRepair® and AeroBuy®, Aeroxchange’s e-commerce communication solutions.

Virender Aggarwal, CEO, Ramco Systems, said, “Aeroxchange has a growing network of MRO buyers and sellers on its platform. By integrating with them, our clients can now leverage a powerful network to reduce cost, improve service and grow revenues. We are excited to strike this partnership as it widens our horizon to offer clients’ a holistic experience with Ramco.”

Al Koszarek, President & CEO, Aeroxchange, said, “Ramco’s powerful MRO solution provides a comprehensive planning, inventory and supply chain experience for their aviation customers.  Our partnership will extend this robust experience to all supply chain partners allowing a fully integrated process that extends best practice supply chain operations to the all partners.”

With Emirates, Malaysia Airlines, Petroleum Helicopters Inc., Cobham Aviation Services and seventy others onboard, Ramco is the solution of choice for several large airlines and five of the top heli-operators and multiple MROs in the world. Designed to be accessible on cloud, mobile and tablets, Ramco Aviation Software continues to add technological innovations with wearable devices offering hands-free computing, and the ‘one user once screen’ concept called HUB, amongst others that help significantly reduce transaction time both during AOG conditions and critical aircraft turnarounds.

First Turkish airline opts for NetLine/Ops ++

Feb 24th 2016

Corendon Airlines will manage flight operations with NetLine/Ops ++ from Lufthansa Systems and plan deployment of its cockpit and cabin crews with NetLine/Crew.

Lufthansa Systems today announced that Corendon Airlines has opted for its NetLine/Ops ++ operations control solution. With this innovative IT solution, the Turkish airline will be able to make its flight operations more efficient and reduce its costs. It will also use NetLine/Crew for crew management, thus benefiting from the integration of the two solutions. The two companies recently signed a five-year agreement to this effect.

“We are an airline always looking for new ways to improve the quality of our flight operations and believe that NetLine/Ops ++ is the perfect solution for us. And we can also optimize our crew planning with NetLine/Crew,” said Arslan Akyürek, OCC Manager at Corendon Airlines. “The fact that the two solutions are integrated also simplifies processes for our operations control center.”

Corendon Airlines is one of four new customers who opted for NetLine/Ops ++ in 2015. The operations control solution from Lufthansa Systems is now being used by 69 airlines around the world, 31 of which have already deployed the new-generation solution, NetLine/Ops ++. This creates full transparency around current flights and potential disruptions for operations controllers, allowing airlines to handle schedule changes – both planned and unplanned – in a way that minimizes their effect on passengers.

NetLine/Ops ++ will enable Corendon Airlines to avoid disruptions such as delays and cancellations and significantly reduce potential costs arising from positioning flights or hotel rooms for passengers, for example. The IT solution offers unique features for Management by Exception. This means that while other solutions display all of an airline’s flights, NetLine/Ops ++ only shows ones that have encountered organizational problems and need a decision to be made.

The solution’s functionalities facilitate information management and enable a higher degree of automation. As a result, the airline will be warned early in case of potential disruptions that might occur due to weather or longer maintenance periods. The operations controller can then make decisions avoiding delays proactively. This can improve airlines’ on-time performance. Many airlines which according to a current OAG (Official Airline Guide) report have the best on-time performance worldwide are using NetLine/Ops or NetLine/Ops ++ and NetLine/Crew.

NetLine/Crew quickly generates cost-efficient and fair duty rosters. Its functions cover crew pairing, rostering and tracking as well as evaluation and documentation. NetLine/Crew generates rosters for pilots and flight attendants which take all legal and contractual regulations into account while also ensuring that available personnel is assigned in a way that makes the most economic sense. The two solutions are integrated and can be used on a platform so that any changes to flight operations are immediately taken into account in crew planning and vice versa.

“Turkey is an important growth market for the airline industry, and it is of strategic significance to us because of its proximity to the Middle East. Corendon Airlines is an important new customer for our Operations Solutions business, which will enable us to expand our position in this region,” said Marco Cesa, Senior Vice President Regional Management EMEA at Lufthansa Systems. “We are delighted about the start of this long-term cooperation.”

Corendon Airlines has its headquarters in Antalya and is a subsidiary of the Corendon Tourism Group, to which its Dutch sister airline Corendon Dutch Airlines also belongs. Corendon Airlines currently has a fleet of 14 aircraft and offers connections between central and northern Europe and Turkey.

Caption (copyright: Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock): NetLine/Crew by Lufthansa Systems helps airlines to prepare shift plans for cockpit and cabin crews more efficiently

DAC International to demonstrate iFly Sikorsky app at Heli-Expo 2016

AUSTIN, Texas, February 24, 2016 – DAC International, a Greenwich AeroGroup company, announced today that it will be displaying Sikorsky’s iFly Sikorsky™ iOS app in Booth #509 at the upcoming Heli-Expo, March 1-3, 2016, in Louisville, Kentucky.

DAC International’s GDC64 iPad Tablet Interface Unit transfers information from Sikorsky’s S-92® helicopter 429 data bus to the Flight Calculator Application iPad Function. Known as iFly Sikorsky™, the application replicates common performance calculations described in the S-92 Rotorcraft Flight Manual.

DAC previously worked with Sikorsky Aircraft this time last year for the vibration testing of the GDC64 to the requirements of DO-160G section 8 Category U Curve G2 to meet the rigorous demands of the helicopter market.

Small Planet Airlines takes off with AMOS

February 2016

At a glance

• Leisure carrier Small Planet Airlines chooses AMOS
• Project kick-off already in December 2015
• Implementation of AMOS Essentials

Small Planet Airlines decides for AMOS
After a short and concise evaluation process, Small Planet Airlines has decided to go for AMOS. Before signing contracts with Swiss-AS, Small Planet Airlines had already set-up an internal dedicated project team and the necessary IT infrastructure ready to welcome the project manager of Swiss-AS for the first kick-off meeting held mid of December. Both parties are confident that strong commitment on both sides will result in an early return on investment,

AMOS Essentials to fit for Small Planet Airlines
“We are very proud of this new agreement as it shows once again how AMOS can be flexible and adapted for the needs of small airlines as well as for big MRO providers” states Ronald Schaeuffele, CEO of Swiss-AS.
Indeed, Small Planet Airlines has selected the AMOS Essentials Edition for managing its full fleet of 18 Airbus A320 aircraft. This dedicated AMOS package consists of all high-end AMOS core modules and is offered with a tailored training and implementation plan including project management, consulting and data transfer support. The offer is a high quality implementation package at a favourable price which is the most efficient solution for smaller organisations.
Thanks to a strong and committed project team at Small Planet Airlines, the AMOS Go-Live is already planned for 31st of June 2016.       

“The challenge of having several AOCs and subsidiaries in many European countries and spreading into Asia makes this short and lean AMOS implementation rather unique. I feel confident that AMOS will support all future needs of our growing airline as we move towards new destinations, not only for our flights, but also in the scope of our undertaking.” said Erich Ceru, CTO of Small Planet Airlines Group.

Arconics CloudStore Wireless IFE to Provide Enhanced Customer Experience on Tigerair Australia Services to Bali

Melbourne, Australia and Dublin, Ireland – 17 February 2016




CloudStore by Arconics, the next generation, feature-rich, scalable and cost effective Wireless In-Flight Entertainment (W-IFE) platform, has been selected by Tigerair Australia for the airline’s first short-haul services to Bali commencing March 2016. Flights between Australia and Denpasar are operated by Virgin Australia International, providing a Tigerair Australia service, and are subject to regulatory approvals.

CloudStore will allow Tigerair Australia to offer a mix of free and paid content offerings to their customers on the Boeing 737-800 fleet of aircraft which the airline will use for its international services. Content will be a mix of Hollywood and Australian movies as well as international and local TV programmes, music and real-time destination mapping. Over time, more features will be introduced to the platform.

CloudStore Wireless IFE is driven by the passenger experience, but it also features powerful backend functionality, including rich data analytics in near real-time, to support on-the-go commercial and service decision-making.

CloudStore delivers improvements in the IFE content delivery cycle. Airline staff can publish their own content builds and prepare aircraft media: they no longer have to wait to import media from an integrator, and can update content on the platform without delays.

Arconics CEO, Niall O’Sullivan said:
“We’re delighted that Tigerair Australia is deploying CloudStore W-IFE. We’ve worked hard with some of the world’s smartest airlines to create an IFE platform that’s a generation ahead of competition. Passengers demand the freedom to use their own devices to access entertainment, communications and retail services while they’re flying and CloudStore delivers on the promise of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). CloudStore provides the flexibility, analytics and real-time insight that revenue managers need to drive ancillaries and our faster, simpler content loading removes effort and complexity for engineering and ground operations.”

Tigerair Australia Commercial Director Adam Rowe said that the airline is excited to provide new low cost international services to one of Australia’s favourite leisure and tourism destinations whilst, at the same time, providing value and choice for consumers.

“Today’s announcement delivers another important customer-facing innovation in keeping with our commitment to improving our customer experience, and makes flying Tigerair better than ever. The CloudStore Wireless IFE solution is not only focused on the customer experience, it is also in sync with our low cost model.”

“Tigerair’s transformation programme continues to gather momentum and we have many more customer-facing innovations to come, which will be announced in due course. We’ve deployed this software from Arconics because our passengers’ needs come first. Our customer satisfaction is at an all-time high and we look forward to bringing our customers great value in-flight entertainment for the first time.”

CloudStore Wireless IFE will be on display at Aircraft Interiors Expo (AIX) in Hamburg, Germany, 5-7 April 2016. Arconics will be at stand 4E10 in hall B4.