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Ocean Sky, as a progressive provider of FBO and MRO activity for the private jet space are always driving for business improvements that directly benefit their clients. Recently Ocean Sky took a fundamental decision to drive improvements to its business and customer service offering by being one of the first clients to upgrade its systems to the Rusada – Envision LITE ™ MRO & CAMO applications. Ocean Sky commenced implementation mid June 2012 and will be fully live on this system by the end of August 2012.

RAK Airways, based in UAE, having carried out an extensive review of the available MRO – CAMO systems market place, elected to acquire and implement the full Envision ™ modular suite supplied by Rusada.

RAK Airways are driving extensive growth to its business and required a full service offering that will allow it to meet it’s objectives and Rusada afforded it the opportunity to implement rapidly, supported by the local Rusada team, whilst minimising disruption in the critical area of the continuing airworthiness department.

The Rusada Envision suite will go on to be the centre piece for the integration of the entire operation and the various related departments and peripheral systems supplied by third parties. The installation commenced in June 2012 with a multi phased approach designed around the business needs of the airline. Engineering is already live and the whole system including flight operations is on target to be fully implemented by January 2013.

Already a dominant force in the Latin American market for MRO software solutions, Volartec has added two further significant Venezuelan airlines to the numbers who have completed implementation projects for the company’s Alkym MRO software.

Valencia, Venezuela based Aserca Airlines, completed an implementation project for Alkym during July. First entering the Venezuelan domestic scheduled market in 1992, Aserca operates a fleet of 14 MD-80 Series aircraft from hubs in Valencia and Caracas to largely domestic destinations in Venezuela plus one or two regional destinations outside of the country.

Barcelona, Venezuela based SBA Airlines will commence in mid-August with the project to implement Alkym. This will be for its fleet of 10 aircraft, including B757, B767 and MD-80 serving domestic routes as well as destinations in Panama, Spain and the United States from a main base at Caracas, and a hub at Maracaibo.

Aviovision, a Belgium-based EFB (Electronic Flight Bag) software provider announces today that it has signed a contract with Air Greenland, the flag carrier airline and one of the driving forces behind the development of the community of Greenland.

“Air Greenland has selected the AVIOBOOK® EFB solution because of its flexibility which matches our need to adapt to the sometimes difficult and extreme operational environment in which we are operating, and provides us with an ideal future platform completely integrated with our existing back-office systems which will allow us to further increase our operational efficiency”, Morten Nielsen, COO at Air Greenland said.

Air Greenland who has multiple fixed and rotary wing bases across Greenland, intends to implement the AVIOBOOK® EFB on a Class 1 iPad device, providing a maximum flexibility and user friendliness to its aircraft and helicopter flight crews. In addition theAVIOBOOK® BASE ground administration tool will serve the flight operations office staff to actively monitor the EFB devices and content, and will allow a seamless integration with Air Greenland’s current back-office operations systems.

“AvioVision is extremely proud to land Air Greenland as a key account in the Northern European region and is looking forward to start the implementation soon. At Air Greenland, we’ve found a very capable and dedicated staff who understands precisely how an EFB can contribute to the overall success of the airline in the short and long run. Air Greenland is without a doubt a reference carrier in the region and will be a great addition to our customer base”, says Kris Van den Bergh, CEO of AvioVision. The implementation will start in August 2012.

ABOUT AIR GREENLAND
Air Greenland A/S is the flag carrier airline of Greenland, owned by the Greenland Home Rule Government, SAS Group, and the government of Denmark. It operates a fleet of 38 aircrafts, 10 fixed-wing aircraft primarily serving the domestic network, and 26 helicopters feeding passengers from the smaller communities into the domestic airport network.

Founded in 1960 as Grønlandsfly, the majority of operations were based on helicopters until the newly- established Greenland Home Rule began investing in a network of short takeoff and landing airfields. The reliability of connections improved as the domestic airport network expanded in the 1990s: increasing use of the Dash 7s made the airline less restricted by inclement weather. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Air Greenland acquired a Boeing 757 and an Airbus A330, airliners allowing it to open connections to Copenhagen.

Besides running scheduled services and government-contracted flights to most villages in the country, the airline also supports remote research stations, provides charter services for tourists and Greenland’s energy and mineral-resource industries. For more information, please visit: www.airgreenland.com

ABOUT AVIOVISION
AvioVision is a young, dynamic Belgian company that intends to bring innovative operational solutions to mission-critical industries, such as aviation. AvioVision’s EFB Software, the AVIOBOOK^®, redefines the standard for EFB software and is intuitive, smart and integrated with the legacy systems of the customer. AvioVision continuously strives for a high quality and innovative product providing operational excellence beyond compliance for flight crew and back-office personnel. For further information, please visit: www.aviobook.aero.

Reston, Va., July 23, 2012 – Virgin Atlantic Airways has selected the Optimized Systems and Solutions (OSyS) Fuel Management Solution (FMS) to optimize its operational fuel usage and manage its EU Emissions Trading Scheme reporting commitments.

Corneel Koster, Director of Operations, Safety and Security for Virgin Atlantic, said, “This is a really exciting partnership for us which will deliver a step change in our fuel management. At Virgin Atlantic, we are passionate about improving our fuel efficiency and reducing our carbon footprint and have had initiatives in place for many years to help achieve those aims. The OSyS solution is a fantastic way of bringing business intelligence on large numbers of data points together in an easy-to-use, single source and we are looking forward to identifying and driving forward many more fuel saving opportunities.”

Mark Goodhind, Vice President of Operations Optimization at OSyS, said, “We are delighted to have been selected by Virgin Atlantic as their solution partner for driving fuel efficiency and carbon reduction initiatives into their business. We are confident our market-leading solution will help Virgin Atlantic deliver the step change necessary to successfully deliver on their fuel efficiency targets.”

The OSyS FMS continues to evolve to meet the needs of airline operators, offering a better vision of fuel cost controls within the context of their individual operations. Along with the OSyS emissions monitoring services, this package will support airlines’ goals of achieving a more sustainable business. 

NOTES to Editors:

1. Optimized Systems and Solutions (OSyS) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Rolls-Royce plc, with 400 employees serving a customer base that includes Fortune 100 companies in more than 100 countries. For over a decade, OSyS has been delivering expert insight around the globe to operators of high-value assets, to OEMs and to companies that provide asset services. OSyS unlocks the full decision-making power of complex asset data, enabling customers to balance their cost, risk and performance parameters.

2. OSyS core competencies are built on software and consulting expertise for intelligent data management and integration, and predictive analytics that drive equipment health monitoring and management. Extensive OSyS domain knowledge and proven processes serve compliance and process assurance, risk analysis automation and fleet-plant-operations optimization. OSyS is Expert Insight Delivered. For more information, please visit the OSyS website at www.o-sys.com.

3. Virgin Atlantic Airways has become Britain’s second largest carrier, serving the world’s major cities. Now based at London’s Gatwick and Heathrow airports and Manchester airport, it operates long-haul services to 30 destinations worldwide, as far apart as Las Vegas and Shanghai. Virgin Atlantic has carried around 58 million passengers since it began operations and now employs over 9,000 people worldwide.

Contact:
Mark Goodhind
Vice President, Operation Optimization
Optimized Systems and Solutions
Tel: +44 (0) 7792190732
mark.goodhind@o-sys.com

Airberlin Technik Goes Live With The eMan Solution To Manage Technical Documentation For All Users Worldwide

AviIT Ltd announces that its library management and document distribution solution, eMan, has been successfully deployed to support the European aircraft service and repair operations of airberlin technik, a leading provider of MRO services. The eMan implementation provides airberlin technik with the ability to ensure that only the current version of aircraft servicing documentation are available to its in-house, remote, and 3^rd party service operations wherever they are located.

eMan is hosted at AviIT’s Edinburgh data center and provides airberlin technik librarians with a high-availability cloud-based environment for the management and distribution of technical and process documentation. The use of the eMan hosted environment greatly reduces the cost of maintaining the IT infrastructure and the support required to manage airberlin’s technical library and end-user equipment.

“With over 1,800 staff and 12 locations across Germany alone, we take the challenges of managing the effective distribution of technical publications very seriously”, comments Markus Krüger, Head of Technical Documentation at airberlin technik. “We selected eMan as it was a perfect fit with an intuitive user interface for both our librarian and engineering teams. eMan also allows us to provide subcontractors with controlled access to relevant document sets, simplifying the engagement of 3^rdparties.”

Miguel Amengual, responsible Project Manager at airberlin technik, added: “The hosted operation allowed us to implement quickly without the requirement to provision suitable capabilities within our IT estate. Overall both the product and the service from AviIT have been very satisfying”.

David Brown, AviIT CEO is equally enthusiastic. “We are well aware of the high quality reputation of airberlin technik and its demanding standards. We share this focus on excellence and I’m delighted that we were able to match up to its requirements. eMan greatly simplifies a complex process with users quickly achieving very real results. Our hosted offering not only allowed this implementation to be completed swiftly but has also provided airberlin technik with operational benefts particularly in the ability to extend to contractors.”

About AviIT Ltd
AviIT is a specialist software provider focused on the aviation sector. Based in Scotland, UK, with offices in the US and Australia, the business grew by 100% in the financial year to. It has secured a leadership position in the provision of portable in flight entertainment systems via its Bluebox Avionics joint venture. The AviIT eMan document distribution system is used by major airlines, MROs, Repair Centers, Charter and Med-Flight Dept., and their service partners to manage the effective consolidation, distribution and tracking of technical manuals used in the maintenance and repair of aircraft.

About airberlin technik
airberlin technik GmbH (ABT) is the aviation technology division within the airberlin group and the main provider of MRO services for the group’s aircraft. Approximately 1,800 employees work at 16 locations throughout Germany and in other countries and provide a wide range of technical aviation services. The company’s customers include not only the airberlin group, but also a steadily growing number of major German and international airlines.

Media Contacts
AviIT Ltd – Kevin Clark, +44 (0) 183 620922 – GMT kclark@aviit.com
airberlin technik GmbH – Alexandra Bakir, +49 (0) 30 3434 1500 – alexandra.bakir@airberlin.com

Smart4Aviation is pleased to announce our newest partner airline Air France. Air France joins our family of Key Airline Partnerships and adds their specific expertise to our pooled knowledge of the Global Airline Marketplace.

WELCOME TO THE FAMILY!

All these products have revolutionized operations in airlines of all sizes. We are convinced that they will enable Air France to exceed their business evolution goals in the short and long term. Air France will be acquiring our Smart BRIEF, Smart MET, Smart NOTAM MANAGER, Smart OPS, Smart VIEW and Smart COMM solutions to complement their new Dispatch chain solution.

Smart BRIEF is our next generation flight crew briefing portal. With Smart BRIEF, Flight Crews no longer need to struggle to compile all the required information for their flight. Smart BRIEF enables Flight Crews to access flight plan, weather, NOTAM, Flight Dispatch and Crew Information, aircraft and Flight Operations Bulletin information, and many other sources of information through easy to use web pages or mobility devices. Smart BRIEF maximizes pilot briefing effectiveness by tailoring all information in to a simple but powerful crew briefing portal, and by making it available anywhere at any time.

Smart MET integrates with Smart BRIEF and is a weather briefing and monitoring module giving an airline access t worldwide weather information and includes a state-of-the-art weather monitoring facility. It is also tightly integrated with the Smart VIEW which provides real-time flight tracking and fleet monitoring in a visual way on an interactive, dynamic map.

Smart NOTAM MANAGER is designed to improve and automate NOTAMs processing, e.g. production, storage, distribution, and retrieval of NOTAM in full compliance with ICAO standards. Whereas the Smart OPS module provides a complete “day off” schedule and fleet management solution displaying real-time flight, aircraft, and schedule operations information through an interactive Gantt bar display.

Smart COMM is an extremely powerful and flexible company-wide communication, alerting and workflow solution. Smart COMM is fully integrated with all other modules of our Smart SUITE allowing access to all operational data sources. With Smart COMM airlines can create the highest level of situational awareness for all operations personnel, from the cockpit to OCC, all are informed on key operational information based on their responsibilities and their required level of  information, and all can communicate through a single solution via web browser, mobility device, or EFB seamlessly.

All these products have revolutionized operations in airlines of all sizes. We are convinced that they will enable Air France to exceed their business evolution goals in the short and long term.

“After a very extensive analysis, benchmark and negotiation phases, our choice was definitively oriented to Smart SUITE software. With this long term investment and partnership together with S4A, we strongly believe that this will enable us to get a flexible and efficient solution to our very ambitious Flight Assistance Reengineering (FAR) Project” – said Francis Isidoro, FAR Project  Director at Air France Operations Control.

We have received the next reason to be very proud! Air France is a terrific partner that truly understands and appreciates the value our Smart4aviation solutions. I believe our solutions and expertise will serve them well and will bring benefits in the years to come. Welcome!” – said Dirk-Jan Baas, Smart4Aviation CEO.

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e-mail: info@smart4aviation.aero
website: www.smart4aviation.aero

AMOS used for flight simulator maintenance
Lufthansa Flight Training (LFT) recently signed with Swiss-AS agreements to maintain their 37 simulators in AMOS. Since 2008, LFT’s pilot school in Bremen has been relying on AMOS for their training aircraft. Their positive experience has convinced the management to use AMOS and the additional simulator module AMOS_SIM for LFT’s flight simulator fleet.

“With LFT, AMOS is now deployed in two companies for the simulator maintenance. The flight training business is an interesting market for Swiss-AS and we are pleased to be in the position to offer our customers, in addition to the AMOS core application, the dedicated AMOS_SIM module which meets the requirements of today’s aviation training providers”, says Ronald Schaeuffele, CEO of Swiss-AS.

Productivity growth coupled with financial savings
A rise of productivity is expected through the shut-down of LFT’s 20 legacy software systems and the establishment of AMOS as leading application. By using AMOS for the maintenance of the 37 flight simulators as well as the training aircraft of the flight school, Lufthansa Flight Training is counting on remarkable savings over the next few years.

About Lufthansa Flight Training (LFT)
Lufthansa Flight Training is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group and was founded in 1997. Having its headquarters in Frankfurt, LFT offers training and instruction of cockpit and cabin crews to its customer base of more than 200 airlines worldwide. The company also includes two pilot schools in Germany. The LFT Group has a fleet of almost 50 aircraft for training purposes and one of the largest fleets of full-flight simulators in Europe.

About Swiss AviationSoftware and AMOS
AMOS – developed and distributed by Swiss AviationSoftware – is a comprehensive, fully-integrated software package that successfully manages the maintenance, engineering and logistics requirements of modern airlines and MRO providers by fulfilling all airworthiness standards. Swiss-AS is a 100% subsidiary of Swiss International Air Lines Ltd., and counts more than 100 customers worldwide to its loyal customer base, including pure operators of all sizes, major low-cost, regional and flag carriers, large airline groups and MRO providers.

The fact that none of them has ever replaced AMOS by another system speaks for itself. Swiss-AS’ AMOS is the industry-leading MRO software in Europe and one of the best-selling solutions world-wide. Swiss-AS has its headquarters in Basel, Switzerland, and is also represented in Miami, FL, USA. SWISS-AS.COM

The European Business Awards has announced that ADSOFTWARE is to represent France as a National Finalist in the prestigious 2012/2013 Awards programme.

ADSOFTWARE has overcome the competition of 15000 companies to be selected as one of 30 French National Finalists and will now compete for National Champion status in the next round of the competition. The aviation industry dedicated French software developer and publisher has been selected as a National Finalist in The RSM International Entrepreneur of the Year Award category.

This award recognises the special traits that make successful entrepreneurs so inspired. Entrepreneurs are visionaries who are instrumental in the success of a business. Their approach to enterprise expansion places them at the crux of the business. Understanding objectives, formulating ideas and making decisions are part and parcel of the role. Final category award winners will be unveiled in April 2013.

The European Business Awards is an independent awards programme designed to recognise and promote excellence, best practice and innovation in the European business community. Judged in line with the broad aims of the European Union and business representative groups across the member states, the Awards celebrates its sixth anniversary in 2012.

Since its launch in 2006 the European Business Awards has established itself as the ultimate platform for outstanding businesses in the EU. Designed to celebrate exceptional results across a variety of categories, the European Business Awards is a global showcase for the best in the business.

Adrian Tripp, CEO of the European Business Awards says, “The European Business Awards provides dynamic and forward thinking businesses a platform to showcase their achievements and share their success with other like-minded companies. Now, more than ever we need to consider how the European economy trades globally and we need brave enterprising European businesses who invest in innovation and excellence to lead the way. This is an opportunity for Europe’s brightest businesses to gain the recognition they deserve on a global stage.”

ADSOFTWARE is a company based in France, with offices in South Africa, Brazil and Thailand serving these regions. It has been in business for 14 years selling its AIRPACK suite of products. AIRPACK is a modular ERP – Enterprise Resource Planning suite which includes a range of solutions called AIRTIME, AIRSTOCK, AIRUSER, AIRDOC, AIRSTAT and AIRWORK. Together these offer an integrated capability for managing: time tracking; fleet management; equipment reliability; maintenance; inventory control; security and electronic documentation.

Considered by the French government as an Innovative Company, ADSOFTWARE has created a great business model by investing in clients support and relying on a network of recognized ground-breaking experts. With more than 340 aircraft managed worldwide, ADSOFTWARE reaches an average annual growth of 26%. In terms of market share, the growth of the company is exponential. ADSOFTWARE counts now 45 clients and joins the top 10 companies in this sector.

“We are extremely grateful to receive this prestigious recognition and to represent France at the Awards, especially since members of the jury are prominent business leaders”, says Fred Ulrich CEO of ADSOFTWARE. “The nomination comes in recognition of a really innovative business model for this type of market; we face competitors that are 10 times our size. The new features developed for AIRPACK 2011 seduce more and more customers around the world. ADSOFTWARE is carrying on its success story and recorded twelve new customers in the last 18 months”.

About ADSoftware

ADSOFTWARE Is a 14 year old IT company based in France, with offices in Thailand, Brazil and South Africa. Specialising in aviation software, the company has developed a fleet management system and logistic package called “AIRPACK”. This system meets the needs of airlines operating fleets between 2 and 60 aircrafts, as well as Maintenance and Repair Organisations (MRO) and Continuing Airworthiness Management Organisations (CAMO).

The strength of ADSoftware is the simplicity of its product. It is Microsoft Windows® ready, web-enabled and multilingual. The company provides a complete training in just five days and a 24/7 online technical support. ADSOFTWARE is extremely competitively priced, costing up to 40% less than its competitors. Visit www.adsoftware.fr for more information.

Press Information: a.guillot@adsoftware.fr / General Information: contact@adsoftware.fr

Shannon Ireland. July, 2012 // Volartec today announced that Alkym, management and control system for aircraft maintenance, completed the new interface with SAP.

Based on prompt analysis performed in conjunction with LASER Airlines and BEKESANTOS SAP Gold Partner staff, the following interfaces with SAP were developed and implemented:  

• Product Interface; this interface provides data products from Alkym with the aim of generating and properly outputting files including modified and new product information.
• Commercial Orders; this interface includes commercial orders data extraction from Alkym which includes information on sales/purchase orders, selected according to the criteria previously defined.  
• Movements Interface, which grants the collection of data of material movements from Alkym in order to generate and contain output files including information of actions selected in accordance to previously set standards.  

After 8 man/weeks of work the overall objective of the project were completed, providing files with information coming from Alkym which are then feed to and processed by the SAP interfaces that brought to the production environment integrates the core company processes.

Rodolfo Florensa, R&D manager with Volartec welcomed the completion of the project with his comments “We have worked with this customer to achieve an interface they requested for productivity reasons. Its completion in the short timescale shows the dedication our Development Team committed to ensure client satisfaction. The benefit to other potential customers in seeing how quickly we can interface with any ERP system will benefit our growing reputation around the world. Of course this is something we are delighted to present and continue to do.”

ABOUT VOLARTEC

Volartec is one of the fastest growing IT companies in the aviation industry. Specialized in the development and implementation of world class software systems, Volartec provides the most profitable products and services of the market.
With more than 10 years of experience in the aviation industry and constituted by a highly qualified IT and aviation experts team, Volartec assures a successful combination of professionalism and experience.

For more information please visit www.volartec.aero or contact info@volartec.aero