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Vistair Systems, a leading provider of aviation Document and Safety Management solutions is pleased to announce its first partnership in South America with  low-cost carrier, Viva Air.

Vistair’s DocuNet, will replace multiple systems at Viva Air to centralise its flight operations and engineering data, providing  a single point of control, greater capability to leverage the data, and  increasing efficiency across the Viva Air Group.

The new partnership comes at a time of growth and development for Viva Air, with an expanding network of 16 destinations across Colombia, Peru, and the United States

Scalable Technology to Support Growth

Despite the industry challenges brought on by the Covid pandemic, Viva Air is moving swiftly through its recovery process and has now exceeded their pre-pandemic levels by 30%.

“ As we continue to scale, running a highly efficient airline is a key priority. DocuNet has contributed to this in transforming how we handle, leverage, and consume operational data, in particular streamlining engineering and flight data onto one platform.  

We have been highly impressed with both the level and speed of service provided.”

David Restrepo, Flight Standards & Training Manager, at Viva Air

Advanced Usability

DocuNet’s usability features will provide pilots, cabin crew and ground and maintenance teams with unmatched flexibility and convenience, ensuring they have easy access to critical data, both online and offline, at any time.

Echoing Viva Air’s goal to simplify and improve their operational processes, DocuNet provides one single source of truth for flight operations, engineering, and company data content. DocuNet’s ability to handle different format types such as Airbus SGML means that Viva Air’s Engineering team have increased mobility, being able to access all technical data with speed and accuracy.

“We are excited to partner with Viva Air as our first client in South America.  Their ambitious growth plans, even in the context of a pandemic environment, reflect the demand in the region for their model.  To support this, they are investing in the best technology, and are well-placed to succeed in an increasingly competitive environment” 

Dominic Clarke, Chief Commercial Officer

Viva Air joins a growing number of international airlines relying on Vistair’s document management platform. DocuNet supports more than 30 airlines globally, including Avelo, British Airways, DHL, easyJet, Frontier, Iberia , Qantas, Vueling, and Viva Aerobus .

Raunheim, April 22, 2021 – Lufthansa Systems today announced the launch of the NetLine/HubDesigner, an optimizer that generates profitable (multi-)hub networks, optimizes fleet utilization, and creates the ideal bank structure at a single hub or in a multi-hub environment. Based on advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, the solution harmonizes supply and demand while considering operational restrictions. This results in a schedule that is operationally feasible, perfectly suited to meet demand, and generates maximum network profitability. The new solution paves the way for more efficient, data-driven decisions in the recovery phase and well beyond.

The solution was developed in response to the current market situation, where demand and the competitive landscape are subject to dynamic and sweeping change in the short term. Even airlines operating based on hub-and-spoke business models now have to adjust or completely redesign their networks more frequently, more radically, and closer to the day of departure. “Optimizers are needed to create and maintain a profitable bank structure for a (multi-)hub environment, which takes into account demand, competition and operational restrictions and enables airlines to tap market opportunities,” said Judith Semar, Product Owner Schedule Optimization at Lufthansa Systems. “When market conditions change drastically, networks need to be redesigned from scratch. The NetLine/HubDesigner generates the most profitable O&D network, known as the point of origin and destination approach, without having to resort to existing schedules.”

Besides the clean-sheet network optimization approach, the NetLine/HubDesigner delivers integrated rather than isolated optimization results as it combines three optimizers in one solution:

1. Hub optimization maximizes passenger services in terms of times, connections, and frequencies

The optimizer designs the best hub bank structure offering the optimal frequencies and connection times.

2. Fleet assignment ensures the most profitable use of a fleet

The optimizer efficiently assigns aircraft to routes while taking revenue and cost structures into account.

3. Rotation optimization generates reliable aircraft rotations

The rotation optimizer creates a rotation schedule that accounts for operational and commercial demands by considering aspects such as airport slots, maintenance requirements and airport restrictions.

Lufthansa Systems offers the underlying demand forecasts as a service, or they can be provided by customers themselves. This enables airlines to consistently plan and control their business process within their network planning and scheduling process.

The NetLine/HubDesigner is a cloud solution running on Lufthansa Systems’ cloud delivery platform, the Global Aviation Cloud. “Our customers thus benefit from an excellent end-to-end service for simple, cost-effective and scalable use,” said Dana Wilk, Product Manager Global Aviation Cloud at Lufthansa Systems. “The security measures are certified in accordance with multiple industry standards and are regularly reviewed in audits.” Lufthansa Systems is the customer’s single point of contact for the entire technology and service stack.

Caption (Copyright: Lufthansa Systems): Lufthansa Systems launches the NetLine/HubDesigner, which generates a schedule with maximum network profitability.

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About Lufthansa Systems

Lufthansa Systems GmbH & Co. KG is a leading airline IT provider. Based on long-term project experience, a deep understanding of complex business processes and strong technological know-how, the company provides consulting and IT services for the global aviation industry. More than 350 customers worldwide rely on the know-how of IT specialists at Lufthansa Systems. Its portfolio covers innovative IT products and services, which provide added value for its customers in terms of enhanced efficiency, reduced costs or increased profits. Headquartered in Raunheim near Frankfurt/Main, Germany, Lufthansa Systems has offices in 16 other countries.

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Malmö, Sweden; March 22, 2021: Chaitanya Kaushik, Sales Development Team Lead at Web Manuals, is the second of the company’s employees to be selected as the European Business Aviation Association’s (EBAA) delegate for the One Young World summit, taking place in Munich in July 2021.

One Young World is a global organization which holds a yearly summit convening the brightest young talent from every country and sector, working to accelerate social impact. The prominent industry forum offers young professionals the opportunity to learn from influential political, business, and humanitarian leaders, enabling the next generation to pave the way towards a sustainable future. Web Manuals’ Chaitanya Kaushik will be one of 1,800 young leaders from more than 190 countries specifically selected to take part.

Kaushik says: “I’m extremely excited to be attending One Young World. The future of our planet and industry depends on the actions of my generation, which makes sustainability the most relevant topic to focus on right now.

“I believe this opportunity will help young leaders develop innovative solutions which will assist in achieving the EBAA’s mission of enhancing connectivity and enabling sustainable, responsible growth for business aviation.”

Chaitanya has good reason to be optimistic; he is following in the footsteps of Web Manuals colleague, Angel Nikolov, who following the 2019 summit, went on to assist in developing the EBAA’s S.T.A.R.S (Standards & Training for Aviation Responsibility and Sustainability) initiative which is set to launch across Europe in 2021.

Paul Sandström, Chief Revenue Officer and Director of Operations EMEA, Web Manuals, says: “We are thrilled Chaitanya has been chosen to attend the summit. Engaging young leaders is crucial to ensuring the sustainable future of business aviation. At Web Manuals, we are fully committed to encouraging our employees to take an active role in this journey.”

For more information on the S.T.A.R.S initiative visit: https://webmanuals.aero/news/join-web-manuals-in-creating-stars

CHEONGJU, SOUTH KOREA: South Korean start-up Aero K, has gone live with Rusada’s ENVISION software in time for its maiden flight.

Aero K initially signed up for ENVISION in December 2019 but was unable to proceed with its original launch plans due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The carrier is now looking to take advantage of easing travel restrictions and a pent-up demand for travel.

Aero K conducted it first scheduled flight on April 15^th, flying an Airbus A320 from its base in Cheongju to popular travel destination Jeju. It will look to add international destinations such as China, Japan, Taiwan and Vietnam as the situation improves.

Rusada worked closely with Aero K throughout the pandemic to get them up and running on 9 of ENVISION’s modules in time for their first flight. Due to the constraints of the pandemic, Rusada used an array of collaboration tools to remotely configure the system, load aircraft data and train staff. Aero K are now using the software to manage their airworthiness, maintenance, inventory, and support activities.

“We are very grateful for Rusada’s support during this implementation, as it has ensured a smooth and successful start to our operations. Going forward, ENVISION will provide us with an intelligent, flexible platform on which we can grow our business.”

Mike Byungho Kang, CEO at Aero K

“I would like to congratulate everyone at Aero K following their initial flight. Our worlds have been turned upside down since they initially signed up late in 2019, so to get to this position in the current climate is a huge and impressive achievement.”

Julian Stourton, CEO at Rusada

About Rusada
Rusada is a global aviation software provider established in 1987 and headquartered in Switzerland. With operations in the Middle East, Asia, Europe and the Americas, Rusada supports 100+ major customers worldwide with software that manages 2,000 aircraft in over 40 countries.

The company’s ENVISION software provides key management information and operational process control for aircraft operators, maintenance and repair organizations (MROs), original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and aviation service organizations.

Rusada
Chris Prior
Marketing Manager
chris.prior@rusada.com
+44 (0) 1295 231619

After releasing the IQSMS Export APIs in November last year, leading aviation quality and safety management software provider ASQS announced that the IQSMS Reporting Module now also supports Import APIs (Application Programming Interface) enabling customers to easily import data into IQSMS.

When using the IQSMS Reporting Module to manage safety data collected by different departments in the company, the data often comes from different sources, which, combined with complicated data transfer, often results in safety data being either duplicated or not collected at all thus getting easily lost.

With the new IQSMS Import API, ASQS is proactively addressing this issue by facilitating data exchange through an automated, secured and standardized import process which enables customers to compile data from different internal sources in the IQSMS Reporting Module. This will help clients to work more efficiently and at the same time improve the
quality of their safety data, helping them to get a better view of potential threats or actual events that otherwise would partly possibly go unnoticed.

For more information, please visit www.asqs.net or contact ASQS at sales@asqs.net.

To proactively address hazards and risks, we must continuously learn from past safety incidents. Therefore, it is important that aviation organizations create an environment where occurrences of any kind can be reported, the management is properly informed of the actual risks, and the reporters receive timely feedback about the actions performed to their reports.
Increased communication automatically improves safety awareness and can contribute to ensure that safety relevant information is even more deliberately shared.

“My Reports” is a new feature in the IQSMS Reporting App designed to improve communication between reporters and the relevant departments by providing them with information about actions taken on reported events. The feature allows reporters to access all reports they have created online and offline in IQSMS. As soon as any actions on an reported event have been entered into IQSMS, reporters can access the information
including also status changes to their reports via the “My Reports” functionality in the Reporting App.

For more information, please visit www.asqs.net or contact sales@asqs.net.

The Austrian Quality and Safety Management software provider ASQS expands its global footprint by joining hands with Salus Aviation Group, which will be the launch customer for IQSMS in New Zealand!

The chance to work with one single, comprehensive but still intuitive quality, safety and risk management system across the entire group led Salus Aviation Group to implement the IQSMS core modules and the Document Distribution module including the respective offline
applications.

“This web-based system increases the flexibility of our operations personnel to be able to access and interact with real-time safety information whenever and wherever required, from their tablet or smartphone” says Salus Aviation’s Head of Safety and Compliance, Armin
Sadafi. “The adoption of IQSMS will allow us to continuously improve and optimize our safety and quality management across all group businesses using a consistent approach.”

Headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand, Salus Aviation was originally established in the 1950s as a sales and leasing company and is now one of the largest general aviation companies in the Pacific Rim region. The Group operates two subsidiaries – Oceania Aviation, an NZCAA Part 145 and Part 148 approved organization in New Zealand, and Heli-Parts Nevada, an FAA Part 145 approved facility in the U.S. and the world’s largest supplier of
refurbished and used Airbus components and Turbomeca engines.
The privately owned group specializes in providing high-quality support and services to fixedwing and helicopter operators, owners and service providers such as private owners, flight schools, utility and farm operators, emergency service providers, tourism operators and aircraft
maintainers.

Salus Aviation Group’s multifaceted services include parts sales, role equipment design and manufacture, aircraft maintenance and upgrades, component and engine overhaul, avionic systems, helicopter blade repair, aircraft and component leasing, and aircraft sales. “We are incredibly excited to have Salus Aviation on board as our first customer in New
Zealand, moving IQSMS into a whole new time zone.” commented Jonathan Frey, Director of Business Development Asia-Pacific at ASQS. “We want to thank our colleagues from Salus Aviation for their trust in our product and our services and look forward to a long-lasting partnership.”

To find out more about Salus Aviation Group, please go to https://www.salusaviation.com. For more information about ASQS, visit www.asqs.net.

Air Moldova, the national airline of Moldova, signed up for the recently launched application of the OPTIMIZE suite: the Performance Factor Optimizer (PFO).

This brand-new digital application, connected to the Airbus Skywise platform, offers a significant improvement to the existing Aircraft Performance Monitoring (APM) process.

Niko Lukian, technical pilot at Air Moldova and primary focal point for the implementation of this solution, explained to us why they chose the Performance Factor Optimizer solution and what were the benefits.

Q: What benefits do you perceive compared to your existing process?

A: Thanks to this investment on innovation and technology, we have proven fuel burn decreases, which contributes to our sustainability objectives. Performance Factor Optimizer solution is much more efficient since: 

• The data is always updated after each flight which was not the case in our previous process
• Takes less time to perform the necessary tasks.

Q: How smooth was the deployment of the solution in your operation once the data was integrated?

A: It was really smooth and we collaborated to integrate additional data into Skywise for the whole fleet. We observed the system learns and adapts after it gathers more data and we saw which results in a continuous improvement of the accuracy of the results.

Q: How satisfied are you with the support received?

A: Since the first time we saw the solution we received an excellent support by NAVBLUE. The support team was always very responsive to help us with any question or request.

Q: There are many suppliers in the market for performance solutions. Why did you choose NAVBLUE?

A: Other performance solutions exist but they are not as automated as the Performance Factor Optimizer. Additionally, we believe that NAVBLUE is the best in terms of performance solutions, and we are very satisfied with the onboard performance application (Flysmart+), a NAVBLUE solution that we are also using.

Frontier Airlines, the ultra low cost carrier based in Denver, has selected NAVBLUE for their industry leading crew bidding system, N-Preferential Bidding System (N-PBS).  This agreement strengthens the relationship between NAVBLUE, a subsidiary of Airbus, and Frontier, who operate an all-Airbus fleet. 

“We’ve been pleased with the roll out of NAVBLUE N-PBS and continue to work with NAVBLUE to further customize the system for ease of use by our crews and based on our specific criteria,” said Brad Lambert, Vice President of Flight Operations, Frontier Airlines. 

N-PBS is an innovative seniority-based crew bidding system that will enable Frontier to maintain the airline’s schedule integrity while keeping the crewmember’s quality of life in mind.  

With over 40,000 crewmembers in North America using N-PBS every month, Frontier has joined a customer base that NAVBLUE highly values.  Todd Bourg, Director of Operations and Crew Products at NAVBLUE said, “Working with the Frontier Airlines management team to bring PBS to their crewmembers has been a productive endeavor.  We are confident that our PBS will enhance flexibility for the Frontier crewmembers while helping the company achieve their operational productivity targets.”

Evoke Systems are delighted to announce they have launched dark mode for their EFOS iPad app. Initially rolling out across their Journey Log module, which is part of the EFOS Flight Management Suite, it is anticipated that dark mode will be available across all EFOS iPad modules by the end of the year. 

With research showing it offers many health benefits, including reduced eye strain, dark mode is fast becoming the norm in modern-day digital products. Working in collaboration with their customers, Evoke have designed a dark mode that is easily and instantly accessible for their clients, with careful consideration given to colour palettes, functionality, and the ability to roll this out to other iOS modules across their 3 product suites in the future.

“Dark mode is a feature that has been highly requested by our customers using the EFOS iPad app. Here at Evoke we are passionate about continuously improving the EFOS experience for our users and working collaboratively with them when developing new features.

The new dark mode eliminates bright fill colours to reduce eye strain, and live data validation rules within EFOS are supported by tinted text which brings attention to those important notifications and mandatory data fields. Using this approach, we have created a colour palette for the dark theme that could then be reverse engineered for the existing light theme, which our EFOS users know and love. Under the hood we use a semantic colour system that allows us to easily switch between dark and light themes at any point, aiding our ability to roll this new feature out to our other iOS modules across the product suites quickly and efficiently, providing a consistent user interface and experience across the app.”

Evoke Senior iOS Developer, Craig Walker

EFOS for iPad app is comprised of many modules, all of which solve distinct customer problems. The Electronic Journey Log (EJL) allows crew to record their flight and duty information digitally using the iPad, fulfilling regulatory compliance for Commander reporting and allowing for valuable operational and business data to be captured. Custom data entry controls coupled with live validation throughout the data entry process allow gross errors to be configured, improving the accuracy and quality of data recorded.

Digital records eliminate illegible, error-prone, and expensive paper processes, with access to vital data providing powerful analysis opportunities into areas such as fuel burn, OTP and safety and event reporting. The EJL can be completed offline, with all information captured syncing to the EFOS server once connectivity is restored post-flight.