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SINGAPORE, 31st January, 2011 – Flight Focus Pte Ltd Singapore and NeST Aerospace Pvt Ltd today announced a strategic partnership designed to mutually benefit both companies by better serving their customers worldwide. The agreement consists in the areas of joint marketing, and the opportunity to deliver embedded EFB functionality for the Flight Operations Engineering departments of their respective customers.

“Our customers will benefit from the combination of Flight Focus’ & NeST Aerospace’s leading technology and services by providing them with an invaluable FOQA (Flight Operations Quality Assurance) and Engineering experience. This partnership with NeST Aerospace provides us with a great opportunity to further extend our reach to airlines worldwide. The integration of NeST’s Flight Data Analysis and Monitoring solutions into the Flight Focus PLATFORM™ will significantly help our joint customers by allowing their Flight Safety, Engineering and Maintenance departments to capture and report on actual fuel, engine and performance related data. Leveraging on Flight Focus’ airborne and ground based connectivity through our enhanced EFB, this data can be sent quickly and securely to where it matters, when it matters” said Ralf Cabos, Managing Director of Flight Focus.

“We are happy to be working with Flight Focus by integrating our suite of solutions, including FliSAFE™, to support real time data capture in order to meet the requirements our joint customer’s FOQA and FDM processes. NeST Aerospace’s FliSAFE software can be customized to work with almost any aircraft (both fixed wing and rotary, commercial/military); by teaming up with leading edge companies such as Flight Focus, we are able to automate the distribution of the data from the aircraft to the relevant departments, allowing our airline customers to make faster informed decisions and ensure their operations policies are being adhered to. At the end of the day, partnerships such as this help airlines reduce costs whilst at the same time improve safety”, said C. Jayachandran, President of NeST Aerospace

About NeST Aerospace

NeST (Network Systems & Technologies) Aerospace Pvt Ltd, a subsidiary of NeST Group Company (an international corporate group of over 25 companies employing more than 4500 people worldwide), has a global export business turnover in excess of $ 200 million it is headed by Mr. J.K. Hassan, Chairman with Mr. N.Jehangir as the Managing Director. The Group offers customized software and hardware development services for engineering applications and product development services for worldwide aerospace industry. It has 95% visibility in the sub-continent providing FOQA/FDM/SMS Services as an end to end solution to schedule airline/NSOP, business jets and recent supplier to HAL with Helicopter Operations Monitoring Programme (HOMP). NeST Aerospace has its Software Development Centers, R&D and Manufacturing facilities located at Trivandrum, Cochin and Bangalore in India besides front-end operations on all continents. NeST is one of the pioneers in the Software Industry to be assessed at CMMI V1.1 (IPPD/SE/SW/SS) Maturity level 5 in early 2003. Adding to a higher level of quality the division is certified at ISO 9001, ISO 27001 AS9001. NeST has its business operations in the United States, Canada, India, Japan, Europe, UK, UAE, Qatar & Australia.

About Flight Focus

Flight Focus Pte Ltd is a flight operations solutions and services provider for the aviation industry. The primary business is to provide airlines an open and complete Electronic Flight Bag solution resulting in savings and efficiencies almost immediately via their enhanced EFB, the Flight Focus PLATFORM™. Integrated fully into an airline’s business processes (Flight Operations, Engineering, Maintenance and Finance), the Flight Focus PLATFORM™ includes global connectivity through the Iridium® Satellite Communications network ensuring real time updates in the air and on the ground. A well defined global delivery model enables a reduction in time-to-market and cost-of-ownership while offering world class quality solutions and services. Flight Focus headquarters is located in Singapore.

Flight Focus Pte Ltd
17 Changi Business Park Central 1 #06-09 Honeywell Building Singapore 486073
Contact:
Capt Kunal Sharma
Sales Director
Email: kunal.sharma@flightfocus.net
Website: www.flightfocus.net
Tel: +65 6419 5299
Fax: +65 6783 3718

NeST Aerospace Pvt Ltd
4th Floor, Padmanabham Technopark, Kariyavattom, Trivandrum -695581, Kerala, India
Contact:
C. Jayachandran
President
Email: c.jayachandran@nestgroup.net
Website: www.nestaerospace.com
Tel: +91 471 3068797
Fax: +91 471 3068786
Flight Focus Pte Ltd

Arpiem SRL Chooses Commsoft’s OASES for its CAMO and Fleet Services Activities Across Europe

• Commsoft supports aircraft maintenance organisations with high quality, affordable MRO IT systems
• Arpiem offers technical services management, including Continuing Airworthiness Management Organisation (“CAMO”) oversight to the aviation sector in Europe
• Arpiem will use OASES to support the CAMO services it offers to general aviation, executive operators and airlines
• Arpiem will offer technical expertise to Commsoft for new OASES customers, joining Commsoft’s other implementation partners

London, 26th January 2011

Communications Software (Airline Systems) Limited (“Commsoft”) www.commsoft.aero, provider of market leading software systems for aircraft maintenance has signed a deal with Arpiem Servicii de Aviatie SRL (“Arpiem”), a Romanian technical services management organisation that works with aviation operations across Europe.

Arpiem will be using Commsoft’s flagship Open Aviation Strategic Engineering System (“OASES”) software to provide bespoke technical management and CAMO services to executive operators, general aviation and airlines in Europe. The system will be rapidly implemented at Arpiem as many of its staff have experience of OASES from previous work with airlines.

Arpiem will be offering its expertise to Commsoft, aiding rapid implementations to new OASES customers, as part of Commsoft’s growing network of specialist integration partners.

Nick Godwin, Business Development Director at Commsoft, commented:

“Arpiem has very high quality staff and we are pleased that Arpiem has chosen OASES for its new CAMO operation. There are many operators in Romania, Europe and other markets, which could benefit from OASES’ extensive functionality allied to Arpiem’s breadth of technical knowledge.”

Radu Boriga, General Manager of Arpiem CAMO added:

“Arpiem considers OASES a very valuable choice; the system is perfectly suited to our needs and to managing the continuing airworthiness of our (sub)contractors’ fleets.”

OASES draws on Commsoft’s expertise in the aviation and IT industries to offer a reliable and affordable MRO IT solution, which can be easily deployed into any aircraft maintenance environment. The Commsoft team has developed a set of functionally sophisticated and easy to use systems, which utilise the latest technologies and an industry leading database to increase efficiency and reduce costs in many key areas.

As one of the most successful aviation engineering and maintenance systems in the world, OASES is used by over 50 organisations globally for a wide variety of applications.

For more information:
Communications Software (Airline Systems) Ltd.
M +44 (0) 7733-004-990
T +44 (0)844-822-1658
E press@commsoft.aero

Notes to Editors:

About Commsoft

1. Communications Software was formed as a software house in 1971 and won its first airline contract in 1975
2. Commsoft is headquartered in Tiptree, Essex and has four additional offices in the UK and one in Australia
3. Commsoft’s market- leading product, OASES is utilised in around 50 airlines and maintenance organisations internationally to support 70 aviation operations

About OASES

1. The OASES system has a wide array of services ranging from implementation support, user training, system tailoring, as well as day-to-day help desk, maintenance support and update release services
2. All of these services together provide the user with the professional service and reliability our customers have come to expect
3. The product is constantly improved and refined in collaboration with airline and aircraft maintenance clients
4. This has been proven worldwide in a variety of live maintenance environments from large LINUX systems to PC networks
5. OASES has FAA, EASA and various national CAA approvals

About Arpiem

NB: The Arpiem website is currently under construction at www.arpiem.ro. For any enquiries please contact +40 (0)21 351 5074 (phone/fax) or cell: +40 (0) 72 889 3844.

1. Arpiem provides technical services management including CAMO oversight to general aviation, executive aircraft operators and airlines
2. Arpiem is headquartered in Bucharest and offers services to the aviation industry across Romania and Europe
3. Arpiem has CAMO (EASA Part M) approval number RO.MG.041

Alkym® Enters Ukraine with a Bang: Two Airlines go Live at Once

Shannon Ireland. January, 2011 // Volartec are delighted to announce the dual successful implementations with their new customers in Ukraine. In September and October this year Volartec reached agreement with two Ukrainian based Airlines as the vendor of choice for maintenance management software. Firstly Bukovyna Airlines and then UM Airlines selected Alkym to enable their organisations optimise their productivity.

The implementation projects were run in tandem in order to meet the client requirements to be live in 2010. Both were successfully concluded in 5 weeks ending at the beginning of December.

John Barry, VP Business Development with Volartec commented “The unique challenge of  unning simultaneous projects with GO LIVE planned for the same day gave us another opportunity to prove our strong project management skillset. We are delighted to say we exceeded the customer expectations in both projects having time to bring added value improvements to their set up”.

Alkym® represents a complete solution to all requirements related to aircraft maintenance. Alkym® was chosen on this occasion for the ability to provide this full suite with the entire functionality required, at the most competitive price on the market. Vadim Ievtushenko  Head of Purchasing Department with UM Airlines was impressed with the project team on site stating “We were promised an awful lot in the sales process to be delivered in what we considered a short timescale. The team that arrived to assist us with the implementation were extremely professional and delivered on all aspects that had been promised. In fact we felt they exceeded our expectations. We now have Alkym in a live environment managing our fleet.”

His comments were echoed by Alexander Manko, Head of Engineering Support Department for Bukovyna Airlines who was “pleased to be able to see a return on their investment so quickly. We had no idea that such an undertaking could be delivered so professionally in the short time frame. The disruption to our operation was always one of the reasons we did not commit previously. In this case we had no major disruption.”

ABOUT BUKOVYNA AIRLINES

Bukovyna (Chernivtsi Airline) was established in 1945. Operations of piston engines aircrafts were on the first stage of airlines development. Then later on such aircrafts as L-410, ANTONOV-24 and Tupolev-134A were placed in operation. In 1992 conducting of regular and charter international flights began. From the middle of 2008 Bukovina started operation of MD-80. At the present time 10 aircrafts are registered in Bukovyna Airlines.

ABOUT UM AIRLINES

UM Airlines was established in 1998. Air operator certificate was received in 1999. Since June 2000 UM Airlines operates from its base in Kiev to different routes in the Middle East on both scheduled and charter routes. At the present time UM Airline operates a fleet of 2 MD-80.

Smart4Aviation has joined forces with TFM Aviation to offer you the best fuel and operations management products on the market. The extensive experience of the TFM experts and the power of the unique Smart FUEL MANAGER and Smart MISSION MANAGER products provide the key to efficient fuel and operations management.

We offer a three-phase program which will initially benchmark the efficiency of airline’s current Flight Operations and Flight Dispatch processes and systems, and subsequently provide support and training required to implement the operational initiatives which have been identified to increase overall fuel efficiency of the daily operations. And finally provide real-time, and post analysis tools, to ensure your achieve and maintain airline’s efficiency goals.

Smart FUEL MANAGER, our Smart Fuel Management Information System (SFMIS), provides you with a unique set of modules to monitor fuel usage in relation to all measurable factors. The fuel and operational analysis provided by Smart FUEL MANAGER can provide tailored critical information to Flight Crews, Flight Dispatchers and all levels of management in all relevant branches. This insight is provided through interactive, online, near real-time charts, graphs, and dashboards, as well as static reports available online or through email.

Smart FUEL MANAGER, combined with the Smart Operations Suite of products, takes fuel management to a new level unavailable in any other fuel management product available on the market today, by integrating real-time alerting and management of Company Fuel Standard Operating Procedures and Policy to key operational decision makers, ensuring the highest quality of historical fuel data while providing instant feedback to manage airline cultural change.

For more information about Smart FUEL MANAGER visit: http://www.smart4aviation.aero/?solutions/smart-insight/smart-fuel-manager.html

Another huge success for Air Canada and Smart4Aviation with the implementation of Smart BRIEF Cabin Mobile!

January 2011 represents another milestone in productivity improvement and employee satisfaction, at Air Canada, through the implementation of the “Mobility” version of Smart BRIEF Cabin.

We at Smart4Aviation believe that to be successful in the extremely challenging airline business, our customers require access to the latest technologies to allow them to ensure the highest levels of efficiency while improving the work environments for their employees.

Smart4Aviations Smart BRIEF Cabin now allows full access to all cabin crew briefing information from the convenience of a PDA or smartphone, from anywhere, to a group of employees that are truly “on the go”.

Moreover we are happy to announced that Air Canada’s Smart BRIEF CABIN and its sister application Smart BRIEF CABIN Mobile won the prestigious Mercurys Award in Processes and Systems category. This category is for the entry of Information Systems or other processes that improve efficiency, quality and customer satisfaction.

For more information about Smart BRIEF CABIN visit: http://www.smart4aviation.aero/?solutions/smart-brief/smart-brief-cabin.html

Simplified EO generation

The new manage/m^® WebService m/modification greatly enhances transforming relevant documents into Engineering Orders (EO). The source document is run through a four-step-process, with the customer making the decision on its implementation.

Transforming relevant documents – Service Bulletins, Airworthiness Directives or other authority requirements – into an Engineering Order (EO) requires clearly defined procedures relevant for both engineers and customers. That process is now simplified with manage/m^®’s new WebService m/modification. Within m/modification, the source documents of OEMs and Aviation Authorities concerning supplementary maintenance (e.g. Service Bulletins, Airworthiness Authority Requirements) can be processed and transferred to a customer specific maintenance task which will lead to an Engineering Order.

Replacing the old applications used for creating Engineering Orders, m/modification is Lufthansa Technik’s modern and innovative way of digitizing the process of document releases concerning supplementary maintenance. Structured into four steps, the engineer can easily glide trough the process of creating an EO starting from the point of the released source document. Furthermore, the customer can directly answer to Lufthansa Technik’s compliance proof recommendations concerning how to handle different tasks via an easy to use screen mask. The proposition of Lufthansa Technik’s engineering will be provided to each affected customer via a detailed Customer Approval Sheet which serves as a basis for the required customer decision. Based on the decision about the implementation of a task, a customer specific Engineering Order can be edited within the system of m/modification.

Interfaces to the manage/m^® applications for time tracking and scheduling as well as an interface for creating job orders ensure the module’s full integration into the manage/m^® WebSuite, thus providing customers with a fresh and inventive way to handle their supplementary maintenance.

For further information:
www.lufthansa-technik.com/manage-m