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Topjets Worldwide chooses OASES

28th August 2018 – New Italian scheduled airline, Topjets Worldwide, has chosen OASES, the industry-leading MRO IT system from Commsoft, to support its planned operations. Currently in the process of submitting its CAME for approval by the airworthiness authorities, Topjets Worldwide has recently acquired an ex-Etihad Airbus A340-642 for use on long haul flights from Northern Italy to India and other destinations.

Offering an industry-leading technical sophistication whilst still being intuitively user-friendly, OASES is structured in a modular format to allow for maximum flexibility and scalability. Topjets Worldwide has opted for the Core, Airworthiness, Materials and Planning modules with an option to access the 
Line Maintenance Control module at a later date.

All the modules will be implemented in Commsoft’s Private Cloud service, removing the need for the airline to invest in any additional hardware.

Nick Godwin, Commsoft’s Managing Director, commented: “We’re delighted to welcome Topjets Worldwide to the OASES family which continues to grow in numbers and geographical spread. This is the sixth new OASES contract that we’ve signed this year and Topjets Worldwide have become our fourth Italian customer. Initial implementation meetings with the airline’s team will start shortly with a view to the system going live in the autumn.” 

OASES is currently being used to support more than 130 aviation operations in over 55 different countries, including national and regional carriers, business aviation and charter operators, cargo specialists, leasing companies, MROs and specialist rotable stockists.

Global Eagle Continues Inflight Games Leadership With New Agreements with Hasbro and Sanrio

Los Angeles – August 27, 2018 – Global Eagle Entertainment Inc. (NASDAQ: ENT) announced today that it has signed new inflight games licensing agreements with branded entertainment leader Hasbro and beloved Japanese brand Sanrio. These relationships will continue Global Eagle’s leadership in providing passengers and travelers with excellent entertainment options. 

Global Eagle’s new agreement with Hasbro will extend for several more years the relationship that began in 2004, and will feature the production of new timeless board games including the best Free Solitaire games out today, as well as Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit, Boggle and Scrabble, as well as childhood classics Battleship and Guess Who?. The agreement spans aviation, maritime and land markets for Global Eagle around the world. Inflight game development is underway with plans to debut new inflight games throughout 2019 and 2020.

“Monopoly has been localized in many, many languages and passengers and travelers will enjoy this addition to our expanded games catalog,” said Per Norén, Global Eagle Executive VP and Chief Commercial Officer. 

Global Eagle also has signed a new agreement with Sanrio for multiple in-flight games across all world markets. Global Eagle will create multiple games with five Sanrio brands: Hello Kitty, Hello Sanrio, Gudetama, Aggretsuko and Sanrio Characters. Hello Kitty, a hugely successful and recognizable global brand, has been popular for more than 40 years.

“We are proud to bring Hello Kitty and many other Sanrio brands to the skies,” Norén said. “We have a long history of working closely with game-makers to ensure the final product translates to the seatback arena in look, feel and enjoyment.”

As the industry leader of inflight games with an in-house studio and top-tier branded titles, Global Eagle offers a catalog of more than 200 active games in multiple languages on board global air carriers. 

Rossiya Airlines cabin crews go digital with SITAONAIR CrewTab solution

Tuesday 21 August 2018 – In an important next step for its innovation development program, Rossiya Airlines has implemented SITAONAIR’s CrewTab to advance its cabin crew operations.

Rossiya Airlines has worked closely with SITA and SITAONAIR – the SITA Group’s subsidiary and air travel industry’s connected aircraft service expert – to deliver its tailored CrewTab solution. Designed to optimize cabin crew work processes and activity, the device has been fully integrated with Rossiya Airlines’ information systems, enabling 450 Rossiya Airlines crew members to access all necessary flight information inflight via their iPad 4th Gen® tablet devices.

Currently, airlines typically provide such information in paper formats. By contrast, a key benefit of CrewTab is its ability to digitize workflows, streamline reporting, eliminate operational duplication and provide a complete flight information picture, quickly and efficiently. Rossiya’s CrewTab solution is available on regular and seasonal flights, as well as flights-to-order.

By enabling remote Internet access to airline information resources and systems, SITAONAIR CrewTab helps Rossiya to improve performance at key points in the onboard service experience. It does this by helping to streamline the interaction between the airline’s internal organizational units, supporting a more efficient document flow system, enhancing staff processes and reducing costs.

By digitizing, and further standardizing, cabin crews’ data processes, CrewTab also supports Rossiya with improved business analysis and optimization, opening up new opportunities to improve operational performance.

As global airspace becomes increasingly competitive, and passenger expectations rise, all airlines face two major challenges to their success – how to improve the passenger experience, and how to enhance operational efficiency.

Cabin crews spend more time talking to passengers than anyone else in an airline, and are, therefore, central to the passenger experience. Deploying a tactile, responsive and information-rich technology, such as CrewTab, presents Rossiya with immediate benefits and advances to both the quality and efficiency of its cabin experience. 

Cargolux Airlines opts for Lido/Flight 4D

Heading into the future with the flight planning solution from Lufthansa Systems

Raunheim, August 21, 2018 – Lufthansa Systems today announced that Cargolux Airlines will be deploying Lido/Flight 4D, the new generation of its proven flight planning solution that automates and optimizes flight planning and control processes. The two companies recently signed a long-term agreement to this effect.

“We want to continue our growth in the future and impress our customers with the quality of our services. This is why we presented our 2025 Strategy last year and began to review and optimize all business processes. Going forward, Lido/Flight 4D will calculate the most efficient route for us from countless possible combinations while taking all current flight-related data into account. Its high degree of automation allows us to calculate the best route in terms of costs, flight time or fuel consumption without having to add personnel,” said Claude Zehren, Executive Vice President Flight Operations at Cargolux Airlines.

Lido/Flight 4D calculates the most suitable route for each flight based on all flight-related data, weather conditions and the current airspace situation including any restrictions. Lido/Flight 4D also enables the strategic analysis of future flight routes and statistical evaluation of specific city pairs. The core features of Lido/Flight 4D are its integrated and continually updated aeronautical database and the so-called optimizer. In various comparative analyses based on thousands of flight plans, Lido/Flight was able to reduce fuel costs by an average of 2 percent, cut flight times by 1.9 percent and save 1.6 percent of air traffic control fees compared to its competitors. In addition to Lido/Flight 4D, Cargolux also uses obstacle data from Lido/ObstacleData and the Lido/FMS data for a flight simulator.

“Cargolux thoroughly reviewed Lido/Flight 4D before opting for our solution based on its performance and the expertise of our team. We are delighted to be able to support Cargolux in achieving the goals of its 2025 Strategy,” said Marco Cesa, Senior Vice President Regional Management EMEA at Lufthansa Systems.

The Luxembourg-based freight carrier Cargolux was established in 1970. It operates a global network spanning more than 90 destinations with its fleet of Boeing 747 cargo aircraft. Cargolux is a member of the Association of Airlines for Europe (A4E) and the International Air Transport Association (IATA).

Caption (copyright Lufthansa Systems): Lido/Flight 4D simplifies the calculation of optimal routs while taking current flight-related data into account.

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FLYdocs welcome André Fischer as new CEO

Aviation business strategy, sales and marketing expert to lead company into next phase of international growth 

Staffordshire UK, 16th August 2018 – FLYdocs, the aviation data and records management software provider and global industry leader in managing the lease transfer of aircraft and assets, today announced the appointment of André Fischer as CEO.

Founded in 2007, FLYdocs is leading the digital transformation in aircraft trading, with an ever-increasing number of airlines, lessors and MROs choosing the advanced aviation data and records management platform over traditional paper-based lease returns and asset management methods, or even replacing home-grown or incumbent software providers. 

André joins from AAR Corp, where he has held the position of VP Business Strategy for the past 2 years.   He brings a wealth of experience from the aviation sector, with his career spanning over 20 years, including management roles at Rolls-Royce, Fairchild Dornier and Lufthansa Technik, which he joined 2002 and has held series of senior sales and marketing positions. 

FLYdocs welcome André during a period of rapid client expansion, with new clients including Nordic Aviation Capital, CBD Aviation, MCAP, Avtrade and Frontier Airlines, and significant investment in product R&D. André’s focus will be to develop a strategy, which builds on recent successes, brings FLYdocs to a wider audience by translating market requirements into innovative solutions, and leads the FLYdocs team to drive significant business growth. 

Dr Christian Langer, VP Digital Fleet Solutions, Lufthansa Technik comments “André’s appointment as CEO is great news for FLYdocs as they embark on the next stage in their journey of delivering disruptive solutions to the aircraft trading market. André brings a great depth of knowledge of the sector, and we are delighted that FLYdocs and their clients will now have the opportunity to benefit from his experience and expertise.”

André adds “I am very excited about my new role at FLYdocs, a world class company with cutting edge products, a fantastic leadership team and highly qualified and dedicated people. I have been following the development of FLYdocs very closely over the past years and I am absolutely convinced that we as a team will play an important role in the industry’s transformation process, helping our customers to serve their clients even better in the future”. 

André holds an MBA and Diploma in Aeronautical Engineering, and speaks four languages [German, English, Dutch and Spanish].  He will be based out of the FLYdocs headquarters in Tamworth, Staffordshire.

AVTECH Sweden AB and the Met Office (UK) signs 3-year contract for unique 10KM Resolution Weather. 

AVTECH Sweden AB (“AVTECH”) and the Met Office, UK’s National weather service (The Met Office”), today announces a defined 3-year cooperation between the companies, where the Met Office will supply AVTECH with weather data from its unique 10KM Resolution Model for Aviation weather. 

Under the new contract AVTECH has an exclusive access to the jointly developed Access Protocol (API), which allows the most detailed and accurate forecasts to be commercially available, through AVTECH’s products, for the Aviation market. 

“We are extremely pleased to continue our already established cooperation with Met Office,” says AVTECH CEO Christer Fehrling. “AVTECH has performed an extensive study of Aviation forecast accuracy, involving more than 50 000 flights, and have established that Met Office’s 10KM grid resolution forecast, when comparing to the aviation standard of 140KM grids, reduces wind and temperature errors by more than 50%. The 10KM forecast simply represents the most realistic and accurate forecasts available in the market. Thanks to our exclusive API access directly with Met Office’s 10KM weather model, AVTECH and Met Office can now continue to bring unique solutions to the aviation community, giving our customers a possibility to improve efficiency and safety,” he continues. 

Emma Connett, Transport Business Manager at the Met Office, said, “We are delighted to continue and develop our work with AVTECH. We look forward to working together to continually improve and bring further developments to Aviation weather forecasting. As we see the Aviation industry seek further efficiency gains and operational improvements, we see an increased need for our high resolution weather data to be delivered in a timely manner, 
available direct to the cockpit. 

AVTECH is currently utilizing Met Office’s 10KM Resolution forecast in their Aventus products NowCast™ and SIGMA, which is primarily focusing on airline use. Besides the current offerings, additional services are under development which in the future will broaden the use of 10KM resolution forecasts further. 

FlyBosnia joins growing international OASES community

16th August 2018 – Newly established, Sarajevo-based FlyBosnia has selected Commsoft’s industry-leading MRO IT system, OASES, to support its planned operations. Established by the Saudi Arabian Al Shiddi Group, FlyBosnia is currently in the process of submitting its application for an AOC and intends to acquire, initially, an A320 family for operations from Bosnia to various destinations, including Saudi Arabia.

OASES is renowned for its technical sophistication as well as its intuitive user interface and is structured in a modular format to provide maximum flexibility and scalability, making it ideal for start-up operations. FlyBosnia has opted for the Core, Airworthiness, Materials, Planning and Line Maintenance modules which will be accessed through Commsoft’s Private Cloud service, avoiding any need for the airline to invest in new hardware. 

Nick Godwin, Commsoft’s Managing Director, commented: “We’re delighted to welcome FlyBosnia to the growing, international OASES family. This is the eighth new OASES contract we’ve signed this year and FlyBosnia will be our first direct customer in Bosnia Herzegovina.”

It is anticipated that CAMO implementation support will be provided by Commsoft client and OASES user, AvioCats, the Croatian aircraft maintenance organisation.

OASES is currently being used to support more than 130 aviation operations in over 55 different countries, including national and regional carriers, business aviation and charter operators, cargo specialists, leasing companies, MROs and specialist rotable stockists.

Aviation heroes wanted

Growth for digital aviation: Lufthansa Systems is looking for IT specialists

Raunheim, August 15, 2018 – Lufthansa Systems supports airlines worldwide in all their processes with digital solutions – from network and route planning to booking and revenue management systems to on-board navigation and entertainment solutions. The digitalization of the aviation industry is proceeding rapidly, resulting in a continued growth of the demand for expertise in this field. The Lufthansa subsidiary based in Raunheim near Frankfurt am Main is therefore seeking reinforcements: aviation heroes with IT superpowers.

“Working at Lufthansa Systems means actively shaping the future of aviation with smart IT solutions. As I see it, it has become relatively easy to develop something like an app. The challenge lies in integrating innovative new solutions into existing system landscapes and structures. Some airline processes are very complex. Thanks to our years of experience, we have an extreme competitive advantage here. And this benefits not just the Lufthansa Group, but also our more than 350 airline customers worldwide,” said Olivier Krüger, CEO of Lufthansa Systems.

Lufthansa Systems is looking for specialists in a variety of areas, from newcomers to experienced professionals, from software architects, data scientists and DevOps specialists to scrum masters and product owners. But along with IT specialists, the company is also seeking consultants and aeronauts as well as mathematicians and physicists. “With us, anyone can develop their full potential as an aviation hero,” Krüger says.

Reinforcements are needed at the headquarters in Raunheim and at the other two German offices in Berlin and Hamburg. Close cooperation with sites in 16 other countries and customers all over the world ensure an international environment and exciting, varied projects.

Agile methods such as scrum and design thinking, flat hierarchies and flexible working hours are the hallmarks of the working world at Lufthansa Systems. The company’s new headquarters at Airport Garden in Raunheim, one of the most cutting-edge buildings in the Lufthansa Group, is the perfect setting for implementing this modern work concept in an open atmosphere and for promoting communication and teamwork.

A variety of services for employees, an internal innovation management system and the benefits of the Lufthansa Group complete the package.

Tanja Altmann, Head of Human Resources, presents Lufthansa Systems and the tasks for Aviation Heroes in a video, which can be found online together with further information on vacancies in IT at Lufthansa Systems: aviationheroes.lhsystems.com

Caption (copyright: Lufthansa Systems): Lufthansa Systems is looking for aviation heroes with IT superpowers.

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JOTA AVIATION to go live on the Paperless Flight Bag™ from INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT SUPPORT

British ACMI and Charter operator JOTA AVIATION based in London Southend Airport operating RJ-100, RJ-85 and BAE146-200’s to go live in Q3 – 2018 on the Windows 10 Paperless Flight Bag™ solution supplied by INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT SUPPORT.  The Windows 10 version includes PFB™ Back-Office engine, Document Management & Library Module, Voyage/Journey Log Module, Electronic Flight Planning Module, a supplemental Web Based Crew Library with Notification function and Chart Viewer integration.  The solution also includes a Take-Off and Landign Performance registration module.

REGIONAL JET & NORDICA Group sign up for the Paperless Flight Bag™ from INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT SUPPORT
Regional Airline and ACMI operator REGIONAL JET part of the Estonian NORDICA Group has selected the Paperless Flight Bag™ from INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT SUPPORT.  The Paperless Flight Bag will compliment REGIONAL JET’s current EFB chart viewer system solution and cover initially PFB™ Back-Office engine, Voyage/Journey Log Module and Electronic Flight Planning Module and Chart Viewer integration.  The implementation phase commences end August 2018 and it is expected that REGIONAL JET will commence CAA approved operational flight test phase in early Q4 – 2018.  Later phases are expected to include Take-Off and Landing Performance integration and eTechlog solution.