Flight Ops IT
Delta opens $50 million flight operations training facility
On Tuesday, Delta Air Lines opened its $50 million flight operations training facility in Salt Lake City (SLC). Spanning 50,000 square feet, the cutting-edge facility is the airline's first outside Atlanta. Speaking on the significance of the launch, Ed Bastian, CEO...
ATP and FuelerLinx Join Forces for Enhanced Fuel Management and Planning Workflow
Information services and software solutions provider ATP recently announced the integration of Flightdocs Operations with FuelerLinx, the premier software solution used by business aviation operators for shopping and ordering fuel, planning fuel consumption, and...
OffBlock – Flexible Add-On for Airline Crew Management Systems
OffBlock is an app for flight crews from the Crailsheim-based start-up of the same name. The company also offers B2B solutions for airlines with OffBlock Corporate to complement their crew planning system and complete processes. The app is available for iOS devices,...
Calm Air Chooses Comply365 for Digital Efficiencies
Aviation-software leader Comply365 welcomed a new Canadian customer, Calm Air, who will use Comply365’s mobile platform to manage and deliver personalized and targeted content to their Inflight crew to enhance safety, compliance and efficiency. Providing both...
What’s “App”ening with Today’s EFB Apps?
Aviation apps are making flying safer, simpler, more cost-efficient and convenient for pilots. Tailored, mobile applications (apps) paired with smartphones and lightweight tablets such as Apple’s iPad hosted on electronic flight bags (EFB) allow flight crews to...
Boeing Digital Services to Optimize Planning and Operations for Frontier Airlines Through New 10-year Agreement
Boeing announced a new 10-year agreement with North American carrier Frontier Airlines to implement a range of crew, flight-planning and operations tools to enhance efficiency for the airline. These digital solutions from Boeing’s Jeppesen product range provide...
FlightAware Welcomes Diulus as Director of Sales Enablement
FlightAware announced its appointment of Dave Diulus as director of Sales Enablement. Diulus comes from UViar Fuel where he served as president from 2016 to March 2020. Prior to that, Diulus was the chief operating officer Universal Weather and Aviation. His 32-year...
Wizz Air Sign Deal for Fleet View
Wizz Air signed the contract with CrossConsense concerning the implementation of Aircraft Fleet View. Aircraft Fleet View is a Progressive Web App that gives the user an always up-to-date view on the airline’s fleet status. It indicates AOGs, delays and other...
IBS Software and CargoAi Announce Partnership to Boost Air Cargo Revenue
IBS Software is offering its iCargo customers the opportunity to increase their reach to the market and thereby scale their cargo revenues through a new partnership with CargoAi. By partnering with CargoAi, IBS’ customers can extend their presence in new and existing...
NAVBLUE and SARSYS-ASFT Sign RunwaySense Reseller Agreement
NAVBLUE and SARSYS-ASFT have signed a reseller agreement for the provision of NAVBLUE’s RunwaySense runway condition reporting data via SARSYS-ASFT’s MIDAS visualisation platform for use by airport operators. This reseller agreement allows airport operators to access...
Hexagon’s “RTK From the Sky” Brings Instant GNSS Accuracy Worldwide
Research from Hexagon’s Autonomy & Positioning division has resulted in breakthrough innovations in precise point positioning (PPP) that enable nearly instant global centimeter-level accuracy. These developments pave the way to bring “RTK From the Sky” performance...
BE Smart Hackathon at American Airlines
When Tomias Davis thinks of the annual Black Enterprise BE Smart hackathon, he envisions dozens of software engineering students crowded in to a hotel ballroom, coding nonstop for 24 hours and consuming lots of snacks and energy drinks. Although this was the third...
EFB Revolution Continues with App Integration By Kathryn B. Creedy
Once designed to eliminate 40 pounds carried in a pilot’s flight bag, Electronic Flight Bags (EFBs) have, in 10 years, morphed into essential tools improving efficiency and safety and shrinking costs and the time to get new tools to pilots. But equally important,...
NAVBLUE Becomes Big Data Player within Skywise
NAVBLUE has expanded its offering for airlines with a new digital solution, Performance Factor Optimizer, connected to Airbus’ Skywise open data platform. The new app provides an accurate interpretation of the performance variation for each Airbus aircraft,...
Air bp Hits 250,000 Fueling Milestone with Airfield Automation
Aviation fuel products and services supplier Air bp has passed a milestone of 250,000 fuelings using its Airfield Automation digital technology. The landmark fueling took place in Adelaide, Australia, when the business supplied Jet A-1 (with fuel system icing...
Live Webinar – IBM GRAF – Next generation Weather Forecasting with Guidor by Skyconseil
Tuesday 30th June - 9.30am(EST) / 2.30pm(UK) / 3.30pm(CET) Cost optimized flight profile optimization is rapidly becoming a corporate imperative, in times of high cost pressure in airline industry. The forecasting foundation for this innovation is IBM GRAF, which...
SITA Says Smart Technology Wills Be Fundamental for Airlines to Safely Return to the Skies
SITA, the technology provider for the air transport industry, says technology is helping airports and airlines safely resume operations and help implement new hygiene measures to restore passenger confidence after a lengthy shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
SITA Announces New Leadership Appointments
SITA, the global IT provider to the air transport industry, has made several changes to its executive management team responsible for SITA’s product portfolios. These appointments come at crucial juncture as the air transport industry begins the difficult task of...
MedAire App Assissts Crew with Contagious Disease Response
MedAire – the world‘s leading provider of in-flight medical advice and assistance to commercial airlines – has announced the launch of its medical event assessment app. The app helps expedite time to care for passengers experiencing medical issues during flight,...
Sabre Announces $200 Million in Cost Saving to Strengthen Financial Position in Response to COVID-19
Sabre Corporation says it is taking significant measures to strengthen its financial position in response to the current industry conditions. Due to the travel industry being adversely affected by the global health crisis caused by the outbreak of COVID-19, as well as...