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Air Madagascar selects ADSoftware MRO IT solution

ADSoftware is proud to announce its collaboration with Air Madagascar and its subsidiary, Tsaradia. The contract covers the complete fleet of 10 aircraft (Airbus A340-300, Boeing 737-800 NG, ATR72-500, ATR72-600 and TWIN OTTER). Maintenance and procurement personnel will be using the software on a daily basis to manage all aspects of maintenance operations. Air Madagascar joins ADSoftware’s growing customer base in the region.The move is part of a complete redesign of Air Madagascar’s IT systems and a significant step towards operations optimization. The combination of Airpack’s technology and Air Madagascar’s MRO know-how will improve time saving and cost efficiency while giving Air Madagascar’s management valuable insight into maintenance activities. With Customer including Air Austral (Air Madagascar’s  partner) and Corail Helicopter, ADSoftware increases its presence in the region.ADSoftware’s expertise in handling data migration was a key factor in Air Madagascar’s decision. Years of maintenance activities will be transferred to the new system via exclusive processing tools developed locally. As part of the startup service, ADSoftware’s maintenance data experts visited on-site to elaborate a tailored and efficient implementation plan.

COO Benoit Shafer said: “Air Madagascar is looking forward to initiating this new partnership with ADSoftware. We believe AIRPACK is a significant upgrade that will result in increased aircraft availability and optimized operations. Our customers’ safety and satisfaction are our main concerns and ADSoftware will support us in managing our aircraft maintenance towards those objectives. The ease of transferring to AIRPACK and solid references were major aspects of our decision.”

ADSoftware’s AIRPACK software: the industry’s leading data migration solution

ADSoftware’s CEO Fred Ulrich said: “At ADSoftware, we have a high-performance software laboratory that specializes in high-volume data treatment. This allows us to maximise data transfer capacities while maintaining 100% data accuracy. We are proud to have been given the opportunity to prove our solution’s superiority to Air Madagascar.”

The “pain-free” data migration solution is reinforced by the technical knowledge of the ADSoftware teams, whose industry-leading expertise and 24/7 customer service commitment guarantee clients a smooth data migration process.

AIRPACK’s high number of functionalities, outstanding performance and competitive pricing have made it the industry’s number one choice. Ease of integration is also a plus: data is stored accurately and completely either in the Cloud or on internal servers, with AIRPACK able to fit seamlessly into existing structures.

Singapore Airlines celebrates the delivery of their A350-900 medium-haul aircraft with Thales AVANT IFE and Connectivity

 In October 2015, Singapore Airlines selected Thales to equip their new A350-900 medium-haul aircraft with AVANT IFE and connectivity solutions; with the subsequent selection of Thales’s FlytCARE maintenance services.

 Thales’s AVANT IFE system provides passengers with a highly personalized inflight entertainment experience with a robust selection of features and applications.

 This new fleet will also fly with GX connectivity solution offering seamless, high-speed broadband internet to their passengers.

Singapore Airlines and Thales celebrate the entry into service of the airline’s new medium-haul A350-900 aircraft. Singapore Airlines announced Adelaide as the launch point of its new aircraft commencing operations December 17, 2018.

Singapore Airlines is known globally for its high standards of service and cabin experience. The airline has been awarded the internationally acclaimed five-star rating from Skytrax and was recognized by the organization in 2018 as the ‘World’s Best Airline” for the fourth time, operating a modern passenger fleet of more than 100 aircraft. For the upcoming fleet of A350-900 medium haul aircraft, Singapore Airlines has entrusted Thales to sustain their brand promise of improving service excellence, retaining competitive advantage and continuing to meet and exceed customer expectations.

This new fleet of aircraft will be equipped with Thales’s AVANT IFE system, featuring an innovative and personalized user experience uniquely designed for Singapore Airlines. The 40 Business Class passengers will enjoy 17” High Definition touch screen monitors with a complementing handset that operates similarly to a consumer smart phone, enabling passengers to use it as a secondary device to control the seatback monitor. The 263 Economy Class seats will feature the latest 11.6” touchscreen monitors.

The sleek and lightweight design of AVANT provides travelers an exceptional inflight experience with Singapore Airlines’ vast choice of entertainment. The IFE solution is designed with a new Signature user interface that is unique to Singapore Airlines, and offers a more intuitive user experience with new additional navigational options. Some key features on AVANT include:

– Media Filter: This enables passengers to efficiently locate desired media by filtering content through the various categories, genres, languages and available flight duration;

– Flight Info Map: When enjoying movies or TV shows, passengers are able to concurrently bring up flight info without exiting the media player; and,

– Air Mouse (available in Business Class): The touch screen handset functions as a remote control by directing the onscreen cursor on the seatback monitor.

With Singapore Airlines’ myKrisWorld complementing the new IFE system, passengers are able to enjoy a personalized inflight entertainment service with over 1,800 movies, television shows, music, interactive games, informational applications and more. KrisFlyer members and passengers traveling in premium classes will also have access to additional content. Passengers will be able to personalize preferences upon sign-in and bookmark partially watched movies and TV shows to be resumed on subsequent flights.

Passengers onboard Singapore Airlines’ new A350-900 medium-haul aircraft will enjoy high speed WiFi service using Inmarsat’s Global Xpress (GX) satellite network. The pairing of global Ka-band connectivity and Thales’s latest IFE innovations provides a comprehensive set of onboard entertainment services that transform passenger experiences wherever they fly.

To ensure that the IFE and Connectivity systems remain at optimal performance, Thales will also provide turn-key maintenance support and services through its FlytCARE service, including line maintenance, software and media content loading, repairs and support from the Singapore Customer Support Center.

“At Thales, we are committed to enriching and expanding Singapore Airlines’ passenger experience through the digital transformation of airline services,” said Philippe Carette, Chief Executive Officer, Thales InFlyt Experience. “Singapore Airlines leads the industry in aircraft innovation and we are proud to be partnering with them to create the ultimate inflight experience for their customers.”

“Innovation has always been at the forefront for Singapore Airlines in delivering the best experience for our customers. Through this partnership with Thales, we are excited to equip our new A350-900 medium haul aircraft with the latest IFEC innovation systems to reinforce SIA’s product leadership and ensure a differentiated experience for SIA customers,” said Senior Vice President Customer Experience Mr Yeoh Phee Teik.

Evergreen Aviation Technologies Corporation live with AMOS

At a glance

• AMOS live in operation at EGAT
• Successful development partner regarding AMOS MRO Edition
• AMOS reference customer

An exemplary implementation project reaches a successful completion

After a common and shared journey with Swiss-AS, Evergreen Aviation Technologies Corp (EGAT) has successfully accomplished its go-live with AMOS.

EGAT, as the key development partner of Swiss-AS for the AMOS MRO Edition, has significantly influenced the realization of the advanced AMOS MRO functions. Therefore, implementing AMOS at EGAT was not just “another” project for Swiss-AS. It was the beginning of a strategic partnership, which allows Swiss-AS – in cooperation with EGAT – to complete the AMOS MRO Edition and thereby fulfil the functional requirements of the global MRO business segment. EGAT, as a renowned MRO provider with an extensive in-field experience, was the perfect fit to accompany Swiss-AS in this major development project.

The AMOS MRO Edition is available since the end of 2017 and offers MRO providers a fully-fledged MRO solution covering the specific needs of their maintenance activities. For a timely realization of the new Edition, Swiss-AS allocated a substantial amount of resources to build up a dedicated and interdisciplinary project structure and prioritized MRO specific functions on the development roadmap. The new functions are well received by the AMOS Community, as well as by the market. AMOS has been enriched by new modules including Facility/Hangar Planning, Ground-time Management, Finance and Production Control Dashboards, CRM and an in-depth Quotation/Contract Management.

EGAT and nine other MRO companies in the AMOS Community had actively participated in scoping workshops for the new functions and shared their expertise and knowledge gained in their daily work as MRO providers. This valuable input, gathered in the early development phases and based on the in-field experience of EGAT, provided a significant contribution to the successful development of the AMOS MRO Edition.

Apart from supporting the scoping and specification process, EGAT was also very committed to testing the new developments. In line with the Agile Development approach at Swiss-AS, EGAT supported the unit tests in repeat 15-day cycles (“sprints”) based on the programming progress made by Swiss-AS in response to end user feedback. In addition, once per month, EGAT performed specific functional tests to validate all features that had been implemented in the new modules.

During the project, three extensive testing sessions were scheduled in order to conduct process-driven integration tests defined as “Final Validation”. The Final Validation took place at the end of the development process. Dedicated EGAT AMOS Key Users travelled to Switzerland to test the new modules and all related business processes onsite with the Swiss-AS AMOS MRO team.

The valuable feedback from each testing phase was immediately available to Swiss-AS which enabled an efficient development process. This common scope definition and validation review proved to be a very successful approach to deliver mature and functionally advanced AMOS modules.

“On behalf of Swiss-AS, I sincerely congratulate EGAT on the recent cut-over to AMOS and I also want to thank EGAT for the dedication, commitment and professionalism shown during the entire implementation. Without the input, ideas and challenges EGAT provided to Swiss-AS the AMOS MRO Edition would not be as business proven as it is today – it was a concerted effort from both companies. We have learned from one another and both parties have profited from this constructive exchange of knowledge and we will surely continue this excellent partnership long into the future,” states Ronald Schaeuffele, CEO of Swiss-AS.

The EGAT project team consisted of 20 project team members, all experienced professionals in their own business areas. Besides the daily project work, the EGAT key users were responsible to train the end users, mostly in the form of classroom training. This train-the trainer approach was very successful and helped to overcome language barriers. The Swiss-AS project leader, who looked after EGAT, is fluent in English and Chinese, which favorably influenced this successful project and which ensures optimum support for EGAT while moving forward with AMOS.

EGAT had assigned a highly skilled and fast learning team to this project including a well respected project leader. It did not take long for the EGAT project team members to become experts in AMOS, which in turn had a positive impact on the quality of functional discussions and decisions made during the workshops and in the different development phases. All these positive factors combined perfectly and the project was finalized well within budget, while the project team needed less support from Swiss-AS than initially expected and budgeted.

Largest AMOS implementation in APAC region

This implementation was the largest AMOS project in the Asia Pacific region so far and fully managed by the AMOS branch office in Singapore. In addition, it was the first AMOS implementation in which the customer also participated as a pioneering development partner.

Due to an in-depth usage of the AMOS MRO Edition, and the excellent implementation project, Swiss-AS is pleased to have found in EGAT, a new reference customer for interested airlines and MRO organizations.

EGAT’s President NH Huang commented, “As an award-winning, airline-affiliated MRO with a global customer footprint, we are constantly looking for ways to improve value-added fleet management services, to integrate MRO business activities and expand overall customer service capabilities.  We believe that AMOS’ MRO edition is the primary enabler to help EGAT achieve its business integration objective.”

OASES from Commsoft chosen by WZL2 in Poland

13 December 2018 – The leading Polish MRO organisation, WZL2 (Wojskowe Zakłady Lotnicze Nr 2 S.A.), has chosen OASES, Commsoft’s industry-leading MRO IT system, to support its developing commercial operations.

With more than 70 years’ experience of repairing, modernising and servicing complex fighter-bomber and fighter aircraft for the armed forces of the Republic of Poland, WZL2 is now approaching civil aviation customers with Bombardier Q400, ATR 42 and ATR72 turboprop airliners, Embraer E-Jet airliners and ultimately Boeing 737NG aircraft. 

OASES, with its technical sophistication allied to an intuitive user interface, is structured in a modular format to provide maximum flexibility and scalability. WZL2 has selected the Core, Airworthiness, Planning, Materials, Production, Commercial and Warranty modules which will be implemented initially through Commsoft’s Private Cloud service.

Nick Godwin, Commsoft’s Managing Director, commented:

“We’re delighted to be welcoming WZL2 to the growing international OASES family. This is our tenth new contract signing in 2018 and WZL2 will be our fourth customer in Poland. Initial implementation meetings have already taken place and we are looking forward to OASES going live very soon.”

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.

Belavia live with AMOS

14.12.2018

More good news towards the end of the year: Congratulations to Belavia- Belarusian Airlines for the smooth go-live with AMOS! Swiss-AS is pleased to announce that the AMOS implementation project at Belavia has been brought to a successful go-live and the MRO software is now used in daily operation.

In 2018, Swiss-AS was in the fortunate position of having attracted several new customers.

During the past weeks and months, besides the already announced ones, 

LIAT (1974) LTD (Antigua, CAMO Solutions (Germany), LaudaMotion GmbH (Austria) and Anisec Luftfahrt GmbH dba LEVEL (Austria) have joined the AMOS Community. Though all new customers have a different background, ranging from start-up, to CAMO support services up to the operation of an established airline, they all have chosen AMOS as their perfect fit. Due to the four different AMOS Editions, airlines, CAMO organisations and MRO providers of all sizes can rely on the AMOS Edition that supports their business scope best.

Emirates Flight Training Academy goes ‘Live’ with OASES MRO IT System

Aviation engineering and maintenance company, Commsoft has signed a contract for its leading MRO IT system, OASES. The deal was signed with the recently launched Emirates Flight Training Academy (‘EFTA’), located at custom-built premises at Al Maktoum International Airport in Dubai 

OASES has been supporting the prestigious flight training academy which began operations in Dubai South in November 2017. The contract covers five key modules of the OASES system: core, airworthiness, planning, inventory and production. These have been implemented on Commsoft’s private cloud for optimum security and customer care.

EFTA recently received its CAR M Subpart G continuing airworthiness management organisation and CAR 145 maintenance organisation approvals (ref CAMO/0007/18 & UAE.145.0073) from the UAE General Civil Aviation Authority which allows EFTA to manage and carry out the maintenance on the aircrafts in-house. OASES support is being progressively rolled out across the fleet of twenty-two Cirrus SR22 G6 aircraft and five Embraer Phenom 100EV Very Light Jets that are being used to train cadets in EFTA’ s ab-initio flight training programme.

Nick Godwin, Managing Director of Commsoft, commented: “We are delighted to have signed such an important contract with EFTA and are proud to be a part of this prestigious flight training academy with its impressive facilities and high standards. We continue to see growing demand for OASES across the Middle East.”

“EFTA is pleased to be working with Commsoft for their flagship maintenance software system.  OASES was assessed against a number of different options and was found to be the best solution for EFTA for providing an airline standard system for inventory management, aircraft maintenance tracking and maintenance control within our flight training organisation.  We have been particularly happy with the support we have received including system set-up and user training.” Said Captain Abdulla Al Hammadi – Vice President Emirates Flight Training Academy.

EFTA has been designed to offer world-class advanced flight training, attracting top airline cadets from around the globe. Students will receive basic flight training, combined with airline-specific requirements. Topics covered will include multi-crew co-operation, advanced jet orientation and line-oriented flight training. Cadets will be equipped with the skills and knowledge needed to move into First Officer positions with leading international airlines.

OASES currently serves more than 130 aviation customers worldwide, ranging from national carriers and large third-party maintenance providers to small independent operators. It is a fully integrated MRO IT system that works to maintain effective aviation maintenance and engineering operations for CAMOs, airlines and associated organisations.

ANNOUNCEMENT NEW CUSTOMERS

We are delighted to announce that several aviation companies have joined the EXSYN portfolio in the last couple of months. From Avilytics implementations to data migration projects and subject matter expertise, the projects are as diverse as our new customers. 

Malaysia Airlines AMOS go-live

With tremendous pleasure, we officially announce that Malaysia Airlines has selected and implemented AMOS. Today, the successful go-live of AMOS has taken place after a very short and ambitious implementation time frame. Now, the usage of AMOS is paving the airline’s way to further digitize its maintenance division. We congratulate the Malaysia Airlines team on the smooth and successful completion of the project!

AVTECH announces a signed agreement with Norwegian Air Shuttle

The Board of Directors of AVTECH Sweden AB (publ) (“AVTECH” or “The Company”) today makes the following announcement:

AVTECH Sweden AB announces that the Letter of Intent signed with Norwegian Airshuttle A/S (“Norwegian”) regarding AVTECH’s wind uplink service Aventus, has resulted in a commercial contract which is valid from November 01, 2018.

As previously announced, AVTECH and Norwegian have jointly completed a project, in part financed by the Swedish Energy Agency, to evaluate AVTECH’s Aventus AIR service.

It is with great satisfaction that AVTECH and Norwegian announces that, as a result of the project, an agreement to implement the Aventus services as a permanent part of Norwegian operations has been reached.

Norwegian operates one of the youngest aircraft fleets in the world and has a constant strive to reduce both its CO2 and NOX emissions. The completed project has proven that AVTECH services reduces the fuel consumption and thus, the environmental impact.

“The cooperation with Norwegian has given clear results of all the benefits our technology can achieve, and we are of course very pleased to enter into an agreement with a company that, thanks to its modern and fuel-efficient fleet, has already reduced its fuel usage considerably” says Sören Skog, Marketing director of AVTECH. “Norwegian has a systematic plan for improving their already efficient operations and has identified other areas where improvements are possible. I firmly believe that AVTECH is able to support such efforts to optimize from “runway to runway“ through both innovation of new services as well as development of our existing services”, he continues.

In September 2018 Norwegian was for the second time appointed the most fuel-efficient transatlantic airline by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), the same organization that revealed the Volkswagen scandal.

“AVTECH has proven to be both competent and ambitious to find the solutions Norwegian are looking for in our efforts to reduce the environmental footprint”, says Director Flight Operations Tomas Hesthammer, Norwegian “We are pleased to have discovered not only a reduced fuel consumption in our already efficient operation but also a partner that obviously has technical solutions for further optimization” he continues.

“As we now have an agreement, valid from November 01, 2018 and for least three years, we’ll continue our cooperation with Norwegian supporting a simplification of the complicated process of optimizing every flight. It is our intention to expand this cooperation to include our newly developed products, beginning in early 2019” says Sören Skog.

“AVTECH’s future is exciting and the agreement with Norwegian proves, even if the processes of achieving financial results are lengthy, that our services have a demand in the market. I am convinced that we during 2019 will see results in form of both new customers and new products, quite in line with these expectations” he concludes.

This initial agreement covers the Aventus wind uplink service with an annual value exceeding 1 million

SEK.

For more information, please contact

Sören Skog, Marketing Director, +46 (0) 8 544 104 80

Christer Fehrling, Managing Director, +46 (0) 8 544 104 80