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Sirax User Conference: Lufthansa Systems presents new module for automatic tax calculation

Airline customers of the revenue accounting solution meet up in Hamburg

Raunheim, June 27, 2018 – Lufthansa Systems is hosting its 13th Sirax User Conference this week. The Sirax community is meeting in Hamburg from June 26 to 28. At the event, Lufthansa Systems presents new features for the Sirax product family such as the new X1 Tax Module for automatic tax calculation. Around 50 attendees, including representatives of 20 customer airlines of all sizes and business models, will use the conference to discuss current issues and trends, and define new ideas for upcoming releases.

“Efficient and accurate revenue accounting has to meet requirements that are complex and sometimes change dynamically. Tax regulations and country-specific aspects also need to be considered,” said Andreas Reimann, Head of Finance & Commercial Products & Solutions at Lufthansa Systems. “Our Sirax product family is ideally positioned to meet these requirements with the new X1 Tax Module, and it is continuously advanced, updated and enhanced together with our customers.”

The new X1 Tax Module, which is part of the Sirax revenue accounting solution, calculates all applicable taxes fully automatically based on travel data. The system checks tax regulations and other conditions (YQ/YR conditions) depending on the routing, issue terms and other details of a passenger’s trip and applies the appropriate taxes for the trip. Tax calculation is based on Airline Tariff Publishing Company (ATPCO) tax rules (X1/2) and thus includes all required charges, levies and fees (TTBS/RATD, YQ/YR and PFC). All daily updates provided by ATPCO are automatically fed into the tax module’s database.

The new functionality has been developed on customer request and is now available to all Sirax customers. Many product enhancements such as this new feature are initiated directly by the community, including new functionalities for automatically detecting scheduled changes, bug fixes related to the Fare Calculation Box, and workflow improvements.

Prior to the annual user conference, the community always comes together without Lufthansa Systems to collect suggestions for product enhancements and discuss which ideas deliver the greatest benefit to airlines. These ideas are then presented during the conference. “This approach is unique in the industry and highly appreciated by our customers,” said Reimann. “It enables us to adapt the Sirax revenue accounting solution even more precisely to client-specific requirements.”

In addition to new functionalities, Lufthansa Systems also presents the new Sirax product family portfolio at this year’s user conference. The product family includes revenue accounting products like Sirax/RA, Sirax/Credit and Sirax/Cockpit, services such as providing the new X1 Tax Module as a web service, and encryption systems (pEngine, sEngine). Lufthansa Systems also offers corresponding consulting services.

Rusada Solution Selected by STAECO（RIZHAO）Aircraft Engineering Co.

ENVISION nGen technology will be implemented at Rizhao MRO facility



RIZHAO, China, 26th June 2018 – Rusada’s leading aviation maintenance technology, ENVISION nGen has been selected by STAECO (RIZHAO) Aircraft Engineering Co.as the backbone of the MRO’s Maintenance information system (MIS) within its Rizhao operation.

STAECO(RIZHAO), which is business jet maintenance part of the STAECO group, provides airframe maintenance services for narrow-body and regional jets, fleet engineering and maintenance service for business jets, extensive cabin reconfiguration, system upgrades, transit checks, component overhaul, parts fabrication and passenger-to-freighter conversion.

The brand new Rizhao MRO facility at Ri Zhao International Airport, Shandong Province consists of 2 hangars and 4 maintenance bays and includes a fully automatic robotic aircraft painting capability – the first in China.

Richard Lin, STAECO (RIZHAO)’s CEO said: “Our mission is to provide first class heavy maintenance services to local and international customers operating Bombardier, Gulfstream, Embraer aircraft as well as the COMAC ARJ21”

Richard Lin continued: “Implementing ENVISION nGen will help us become digitally enabled and be well positioned to expand our 3rd party heavy maintenance MRO business to efficiently serve the rapidly expanding regional and corporate aircraft fleets in China”.

Julian Stourton, Rusada’s CEO said “STAECO(RIZHAO)’s decision reaffirms our position as a leading maintenance technology provider within the APAC region. This can be attributed to ENVISION nGen’s feature rich and intuitive interface which also supports English and Chinese character sets as well as a fully resourced Asia based implementation teams”.

ENVISION nGen will initially be deployed at the Rizhao facility to allow STAECO(RIZHAO) to evaluate the technology as a MRO system throughout other new facilities.

Web Manuals signs up its first aircraft manufacturer in Nextant Aerospace 

25 June 2018; San Diego, USA: Web Manuals Inc, developer of the world standard in digital documentation solutions for the aviation industry, is announcing Nextant Aerospace as its first aircraft manufacturing customer. 

Nextant Aerospace, the US-based aircraft remanufacturing specialist, will use Web Manuals to digitally edit and review its technical manuals, before distributing them to its customers and staff. 

The move represents Web Manuals’ expansion into a new sector, showcasing how the company is able to provide its document digitization solution across the entire aviation industry, including business aviation operators, airlines, ground handlers and medical services. 

Krister Genmark, Director of Operations Americas, Web Manuals, says: “We initially opened discussions with Nextant Aerospace at NBAA-BACE last year and we are delighted to be announcing the company as Web Manuals’ first customer in the manufacturing sector. Working with Nextant Aerospace is a very exciting new chapter for us and we take great pride in the fact that Web Manuals can provide a solution for any aviation business, whether an operator, maintenance provider or manufacturer. We look forward to continuing to develop our presence in the USA and working with more forward-thinking aviation businesses like Nextant Aerospace.” 

Shawn George, Vice President, Nextant Aerospace, says: “We have wanted to address the process of how we update our manuals for some time and Web Manuals provides the perfect solution. Its cloud-based system enables us to make modifications and seamlessly share these updates with our customers and staff. We are looking forward to applying the time and cost savings, that working with Web Manuals promotes, elsewhere in the business.” 

Web Manuals now has more than 160 customers worldwide, 45 of which are based in the US.  

Kuwait Airways takes off with AMOS

At a glance

• “As-is” implementation possible thanks to the functional richness of AMOS
• Further enlargement of the AMOS footprint in the Middle East region

AMOS to support the airline’s improvement process

Swiss-AS is pleased to announce that Kuwait Airways, one of the oldest airlines in the Middle East, has selected AMOS as their single software solution to manage the airline’s technical requirements regarding aircraft and components.

When Kuwait Airways researched the market for a new MRO software, they were pursuing two major objectives: On the one hand, the airline was looking for a system capable of further improving their engineering and inventory service levels by implementing a state-of-the-art MRO system to enable a better utilization of in-house resources. On the other hand, Kuwait Airways wanted to prepare for the next phase of their fleet renewal with the arrival of A320neos and A350 in 2019 and concluded that AMOS would provide an optimum support in this process.  

After a rigorous evaluation process, the functional richness and advanced technology of AMOS, paired with Swiss-AS experience and a proven track record of successful implementations, convinced Kuwait Airways to select the Swiss M&E software. The national carrier is ready to replace its legacy systems in the M&E sector and adopt AMOS best practice processes. The project team at Kuwait Airways demonstrated full trust in the vast functional scope of AMOS and selected to go for an “as-is” implementation. Swiss-AS has always followed the goal to equip its customers with a powerful and flexible tool that allows the AMOS customers to implement the system without customer-specific software changes. Via hundreds of parameters, customers can easily adjust the community product AMOS to their specific requirements.

“It is a great pleasure to have Kuwait Airways joining the AMOS Community. The high degree of integration of the modules, coupled with best-of-class processes, will surely further strengthen Kuwait Airlines position in the competitive Middle East market,” states Ronald Schaeuffele, CEO of Swiss-AS.

AMOS will replace three legacy systems at Kuwait Airways with historical data of many different aircraft-types reaching back 20 years. This makes the data transfer sub-project a challenging one with due regard to the complexity and criticality of the data migration process.

SAFETY LINE WILL ATTEND NUMBER OF AVIATION EVENTS THIS YEAR

Meet Safety Line’s aviation experts at various international events such as the 9 Pan American aviation Safety Summit (Bueno Aires) the Paris air Forum 2018 (Paris), ACI Europe (Brussels), and many others and learn more about innovative products and solutions which answer safety stakes of the air transport sector: 

• OptiClimb: 5-10% Fuel Savings in Climb Phase 
• FlightScanner: Big Data applied to Flight Safety
• SafetyCube: Compliance, Safety & Risk Management
• AirsideWatch: Safety & Efficiency through RADAR Data

ORLY AIRPORT IMPROVES OPERATIONS THANKS TO AIRSIDE WATCH

Paris-Orly, the second major airport in France, recently implemented AirsideWatch to improve operational safety and efficiency on airport’s movement areas. 

The platform monitors all the RADAR data and measure important parameters for airports such as: stands occupancy, runway occupancy time, taxiing… 

AirsideWatch automates and significantly improves data collection which was until now a manual process. This innovative solution also measures CO2 emissions and noise pollution generated by air traffic very accurately. 

ATTENDING FUTURE TRAVEL EXERIENCE (FTE) IN DUBLIN

5th June 2018, Dublin – CEO Pierre Jouniaux attended the FTE conference and hold a pitch in front of airlines and airports representatives to introduce the innovative solutions OptiClimb (https://bit.ly/2GRf6FD) and AirsideWatch (https://bit.ly/2B4UDuz). 

FTE (https://bit.ly/1bz6nR6) gives the opportunity to air transport and travel industry stakeholders to “collaborate closely to prepare for the digital opportunities and trends that will shape tomorrow’s travel experience both on the ground and in-flight.”

INTELLIGENCE FROM EVERY ANGLE: UTC AEROSPACE SYSTEMS LAUNCHES INTELLIGENT SERVICE, PROGNOSTICS AND HEALTH MANAGEMENT SOLUTION TO IMPROVE DISPATCH RELIABILITY



MRO AMERICAS, Orlando, Fl., April 10, 2018 – UTC Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), today unveiled FlightSense™,  a new suite of repair and asset management services powered by its advanced prognostics and health management (PHM) solution, Ascentia™. Together, FlightSense and Ascentia provide aircraft operators with real-time data and advanced analytics to improve operational efficiency and increase reliability.

FlightSense is a simplified offering of service packages designed to accommodate the individual needs of airlines. With the launch of Ascentia, the latest evolution of the company’s PHM offering formerly known as Aircraft Systems Health Management (ASHM), UTC Aerospace Systems is including tiered data-driven insights to all FlightSense customers.

Ascentia utilizes three core data analysis methods to improve aircraft reliability: physics-based modeling, statistical analysis and machine learning. UTC Aerospace Systems’ teams of technical specialists apply deep systems expertise to provide predictive maintenance recommendations and preemptive repairs to reduce unscheduled maintenance, reduce service interruptions and optimize shop visits.

“We’ve developed highly advanced algorithms from the thousands of parameters of data we analyze, that combined with our years of experience and expertise enables operators to reduce costs and improve fleet reliability,” said Samir Mehta, President, Aftermarket. “It’s our intelligent aircraft ecosystem  – the combination of advanced hardware, sensors, components, systems and unique insights– that set us apart in  our ability to bring this added value to customers.”

FlightSense has three primary service options:

• FlightSense Repair, a pay-as-you-go repair option that provides transactional cost predictability
• FlightSense Predictable, a repair dollar-per-hour service with predictable costs
• FlightSense Available, an asset management dollar-per-hour offering with guaranteed asset availability with minimal upfront investment

Each service offering allows customer to select from three tiers of support – Essential, Expert and Elite – enhancing the service offering with varying degrees of PHM, configuration and performance support.

Air Malta relies on IT solutions from Lufthansa Systems

Airline will use Lido/Flight 4D, NetLine/Ops ++ and Revenue Integrity

Raunheim, June 12, 2018 – Lufthansa Systems today announced that Air Malta will be optimizing its processes using IT solutions from Lufthansa Systems, thus saving the airline time and money. It will soon start planning flights with Lido/Flight 4D, monitoring flight operations with NetLine/Ops ++ and managing its flight firming with Revenue Integrity.

“We are in a growth phase and are headed towards a profitable future. We’ve set ourselves very ambitious goals. The IT solutions from Lufthansa Systems will help us achieve them. With these solutions, we can further optimize our route planning, improve our flight operations management and handle reservations more quickly. This will save us time and money,” said Alan Talbot CIO at Air Malta.

The Lido/Flight 4D flight planning solution calculates the most suitable route for each Air Malta flight based on all relevant flight data, such as weather conditions and the current airspace situation, including any restrictions. The solution enables airlines to optimize their flying time, costs and fuel consumption when planning routes. NetLine/Ops ++ monitors current flight operations. Air Malta can use this solution to avoid disruptions and significantly lower the costs incurred by delays. With its management-by-exception approach, NetLine/Ops ++ eliminates diversions caused by minor problems. The operations controller can focus on critical flights which demand a fast reaction. Revenue Integrity will support Air Malta in its primary revenue management goal: maximizing earnings. The solution improves the quality of reservation data and optimizes inventory control and demand forecasts. This lowers the compensation payments incurred through overbooking and losses on account of seat spoilage. Experts estimate that airlines can increase their revenue by around one euro per segment booked and thus improve their financial result by an average of two to three percent.

“Air Malta was won over by the high quality of our products as well as the potential savings and flexibility offered by our solutions. For example, we connected Revenue Integrity to a third-party reservation system for Air Malta,” said Marco Cesa, Senior Vice President Regional Management EMEA at Lufthansa Systems.

Air Malta is the flag carrier of Malta, with headquarters in Luqa. It began operating in 1974 and has a fleet of ten aircraft. Air Malta serves destinations in Europe, North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean. 

Picture description (Copyright: Lufthansa Systems): Thanks to the management-by-exception approach of Lufthansa Systems´ NetLine/Ops ++ Air Malta´s operations controller can focus on critical flights which demand a fast reaction.

FLYdocs announces CEO and COO departures

20 April, 2018 – FLYdocs announces CEO and COO departures & endorses the introduction of a new Executive Leadership Team

FLYdocs is a global industry leading aircraft records and document management platform, and the first choice for managing the lease transfer of aircraft and assets for an ever-growing list of clients.

In accordance with the company’s long-term plans following its strategic partnership with Lufthansa Technik in 2016, an Executive Leadership Team was established in the third quarter of 2017 to support the significant growth being experienced by the business and planned changes in the management structure.

After successfully delivering the business and product innovation and integration targets for FLYdocs following the formation of its strategic partnership with Lufthansa Technik in 2016, as well as industry leading revenue growth of more than 80% and accelerated EBITDA growth of 114% during the same period, founder and CEO Adrian Ryan and founder and COO Anne Ryan are departing the business in order to focus on new entrepreneurial investment and consulting business opportunities.

The Executive Leadership Team, composed of

• Darren Yeates, Chief Financial Officer
• Matt Allen, Director of Platform Innovation and Strategy
• John Bowell, Director of Global Sales
• Jen Hill, Head of Operations and Logistics

will continue to concentrate on the development of industry-changing products, and the delivery of the highest levels of client-focussed performance and results.

The experience, longevity and extensive skillsets of the team means they are well positioned to deliver FLYdocs’ long-term strategy, steer the company to many more industry firsts, and uphold the FLYdocs ethos and vision. The new CEO and COO will be announced in due course.

Adrian Ryan comments:

“Whilst I am saddened to be leaving FLYdocs – a visionary disruptive digital business set up in 2010 by my wife Anne and myself – the time has come to look ahead at new business opportunities, both in aviation and beyond. I am proud of all that Anne and I have accomplished in changing the way that aircraft data, records and transitions are managed forever by making the entire process fully digital and highly automated via the use of AI and BIG DATA. We have built a strong and capable team to continue executing and leveraging our vision; everything is in place for FLYdocs to continue its tremendous success and to have an extremely bright future, and I wish the company and the team every success.”

Anne Ryan comments:

“Adrian and I knew when we created FLYdocs that we would forever change the way that this particular area of aviation works, and so it proved. It has been an incredible journey but the time to move on to look at new opportunities has come. I’d like to thank all of the staff and clients around the world for their support and involvement and I wish the new management team good fortune in taking the business forward.”

Dr Christian Langer, VP Digital Strategy, Lufthansa Technik AG, comments:

“It has been a great pleasure to work with Adrian and Anne since our partnership started in June 2016. We want to thank both for their unique dedication, enthusiasm and commitment to the business, its customers and employees. The AVIATAR team and digital product division are excited about this next phase in FLYdocs’ history, working with a strong leadership team with the perfect blend of extensive industry knowledge and entrepreneurial drive to continue to deliver the benefits of digitisation to the industry.”