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Aircamo Aviation Ltd (“Aircamo”) has selected OASES to support its established CAMO and technical management operations.

Aircamo is an aircraft asset management and airworthiness company, providing transition and heavy maintenance support to airlines, leasing companies and operators worldwide. Based out of Manchester Airport Business Park (UK), they specialise in Private/Commercial Aircraft and Engine Technical and CAMO Management advisory services. Aircamo’s technical approvals include: EASA Part M – UK.MG.0697, Guernsey 2-REG.39.34, Bermuda BDA/CAMO/166, and Cayman Islands 081-CAY-CAMO-2019.

The Aircamoteam consists of very experienced senior technical managers, many of whom previously worked with a variety of large airlines, MRO’s and leasing companies. Aircamo has chosen the Core, Airworthiness and Planning OASES modules, which will be implemented in Commsoft’s Private Cloud.

Discussions are well underway between Commsoft and the Aircamo team, where data migration consultancy and support will be key components of the project plan. Due to uncertainty within the market Aircamo are providing ‘Shadow CAMO’ services for several lessors who want to react quickly in the event of a default or collapse.  

Nick Godwin, Commsoft’s Managing Director, said:

 “The Aircamo contract is Commsoft’s sixth OASES contract in 2019. We have extensive capabilities in the areas of data migration, training and interfacing to external systems, and are confident that OASES will add considerable value to Aircamo’s operations.”

The third customer in 2019 successfully migrates its flight operations to our Operations Solution NetLine/Ops ++.

After many years of successful collaboration with TAP Air Portugal, the carrier has now successfully implemented our Operations Management Solutions NetLine/Ops ++ together with the Airport Slot Management Solution NetLine/Sched Short Term Mode. This will enable the airline to improve daily flight operations, continue to provide reliable services and contribute to enhancing the traveler experience.

TAP Air Portugal is the third airline, which migrates its operations to NetLine Ops ++ this year. The application monitors current flight operations and optimizes daily aircraft utilization. By implementing our solution, the carrier can react swiftly to flight irregularities and improve on-time performance through a more comprehensive overview of flight movement. It will also contribute to reducing operating costs for TAP Airlines and help to capitalize on staff productivity.

After the Flight Scheduling Solution NetLine/Sched was already implemented last year successfully, the Airport Slot Management add-on module NetLine/Sched Short Term Mode was successfully implemented simultaneously with the NetLine/Ops ++ cutover. In the Operations Control period Slot Management typically is just a necessity, which has to be done in a quick way without evaluating many alternatives. Therefore, a quick and easy way to generate and send SSIM chapter 6 slot messages is required. The NetLine/Sched Short Term Mode has been tailored to meet specific Operations Control requirements. It can be started directly from NetLine/Ops ++ and simplifies the process optimized for operational purposes.

“Carefully orchestrated by our collective project teams, the smooth and successful migration of NetLine/Sched Short Term Mode and NetLine/Ops ++,  was carried out in a timely and efficient manner, causing no disruptions to our airline services,” said Fábio Barros Director of Integrations Operations Control Centre of TAP Air Portugal, “The adoption of Lufthansa Systems’ solution contributes to our ongoing business success, as the application will provide our controllers with a complete overview of the status of flights and increase our network’s overall efficiency.”

TAP Air Portugal is the leading Portuguese airline, and a member of Star Alliance, the largest global alliance in the world since 2005. Operating since 1945, the TAP Network covers 90 destinations in 36 countries worldwide. Operating on average about 3,000 flights per week, TAP has a fleet of 106 aircraft. Pursuing customer-oriented guidance, TAP continually invests in innovation and the use of new technologies, offering high quality, safe and reliable products, and services.

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA: Solenta Aviation, the South African aviation solution provider and ACMI specialist, has gone live with Rusada’s maintenance management software ENVISION.

Solenta Aviation, founded in 2000, provides customised passenger and cargo solutions, aircraft charter and ACMI services to multiple industries. The airline operates and manages a fleet of almost 40 aircraft, including Beechcraft 1900’s, ATR’s and Embraer ERJ’s, located at sites across the continent.

In addition to this Solenta has a sizeable MRO operation, conducting both base and line maintenance from its facilities across the globe and recently adding passenger-to-freight conversions to it’s growing list of capabilities.

Solenta have signed up for seven of ENVISION’s modules, which will ultimately be deployed across their network of 20 sites across Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, Central America and Europe.

Paul Hurst, Managing Director at Solenta Aviation said:
“We are a complex organization, operating across multiple locations, so it was critical to have an experienced and knowledgeable partner such as Rusada engaged with this project. We can now roll-out ENVISION to the rest of our network knowing we are in safe hands. We are thrilled to finally get our hands on this versatile system.”

Julian Stourton, CEO at Rusada said:
“Deploying seven modules across 20 sites is no mean feat. I am pleased to say the first stage of this implementation has been an outstanding success. Solenta needed a system that could successfully manage their diverse operations and combine information from numerous locations. As of today, ENVISION is that system.”

At a glance

• Indian full-service carrier Vistara selects AMOS as prime MRO Software Solution
• The AMOS footprint in India further increased
• As an end-to-end MRO solution AMOS will assist Vistara in achieving their growth plans

Custom-tailored, two-phase implementation

Swiss-AS is pleased to announce that Vistara, a joint venture of TATA and Singapore Airlines, has selected AMOS as their end-to-end MRO software solution for its entire fleet of Airbus and Boeing aircraft. The airline recently inaugurated its international operations and aims to expand into geographies across the world as it inducts new aircraft from Airbus as well as Boeing. The state-of-the-art AMOS software solution supports their ambitious growth plans.

Vistara’s newly phased-in Boeing B737-800NG aircraft will be directly managed in AMOS. This project has a very special, non-standard set-up in order to efficiently support the airline’s requirements. The implementation will be split into two main phases: Phase one will focus on the B737 fleet into AMOS with a planned go-live as early as autumn 2019. The next phase foresees the transfer of the complete fleet including Airbus and future Boeing 787 Dreamliner into AMOS.  

In-house AMOS experience expediting the implementation process

Ronald Schaeuffele, CEO of Swiss-AS, says, ”Vistara is a strategic, high-profile customer for us and we are honored to welcome them to the AMOS Community. India is a very important market for Swiss-AS ever since the first Indian customer signed for AMOS in the nineties and now, with Vistara on board, we further increase our footprint in India.”
Vistara has succeeded in hiring engineering and maintenance staff who are already familiar with AMOS. This in-house AMOS know-how will help Vistara accelerate the implementation and reduce the time devoted to training and the general familiarization process regarding AMOS. In addition, Vistara has skilled in-house resources able to manage the data migration process. This will facilitate the data upload of the newly arrived B737-800NG aircraft into AMOS.  

With the selection of AMOS, Vistara will use a future-proof M&E software that ensures operational efficiencies in all maintenance areas and allows the airline to launch its digital transformation process.

Ravinder Pal Singh, Chief Information & Innovation Officer, Vistara, says, ”We have always embraced and invested in meaningful technologies that enable our growth plan and enhance differentiation for Vistara. We’re committed to our approach of digitalization of processes and lead innovation in Indian aviation. Our investment in AMOS will help us gain insights into our fleet’s engineering health, enhance productivity of resources and aircraft with greater mobility and information on fingertips. Overall, it will also be a key platform for continuous innovation in maintenance and overhaul of aircraft and its supply-chain.”

Sisira Kanta Dash, Senior Vice President – Engineering, Vistara, said, “AMOS will integrate our maintenance processes and provide us with the required commercial and operational flexibility across the fleet. We want to create a futurist engineering division of Vistara and this is one of the key steps in that direction.”

Oct. 21, 2019 — Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT), a global communications company, announced today its Aerodocs document management system has been deployed by Malaysia Airlines to support the airline’s compliance and digital transformation objectives.

Aerodocs is an aviation-grade document management solution that is providing Malaysia Airlines with complete control over the editing, distribution and viewing of critical flight reference handbooks and airline documentation in a secure, controlled manner, with advanced workflow tracking to help maintain aviation regulatory compliance.

Malaysia Airlines recently won the “Best Airline in Asia” award at the Pacific Area Travel Writers Association (PATWA) International Travel Awards. The award recognized several initiatives the airline has implemented over the previous two years including new aircraft, products and digital innovations. The implementation of Viasat Aerodocs is a continuation of the airline’s ongoing digital transformation commitment.

Izham Ismail, group chief executive officer of Malaysia Airlines commented, “As part of our digital transformation strategy, we have adopted a number of technologies to improve our overall business—from compliance and safety to overall passenger satisfaction. The Viasat Aerodocs product provides unique capabilities and an intuitive approach to enhance our document management processes, increase collaboration and gather critical flight information in real-time to ensure pilots, operations personnel and other key stakeholders have the right information at the right time.”

“We continue to see airlines invest in Viasat’s broader aviation operations portfolio, which includes the Aerodocs product, to improve compliance, provide operational efficiencies and streamline the complicated document management process from the ground to the cockpit,” said Dave Elliott, managing director, Viasat Ireland. “In working with Malaysia Airlines, we are enabling them to achieve greater digital transformation across their organization, by helping them improve accountability and minimize risk with customized reporting, insights and enhanced compliance tracking.”

For more information about Aerodocs visit Viasat’s website here.

At a glance

• Lufthansa German Airlines and Lufthansa Cargo aircraft managed in AMOS  as of autumn 2020
• Deployment of AMOS in a true tier-one environment
• AMOScentral offering the airline group seamless collaboration

Implementation already ongoing

Swiss-AS herewith officially announces that Lufthansa German Airlines and Lufthansa Cargo are joining the AMOS community with a scheduled first Go-Live in autumn 2020 followed by two later cut-overs in 2021. The initiative will see both airlines and their entire fleets adopting AMOS, which is at the forefront of the Maintenance and Engineering software market.

Lufthansa German Airlines and Lufthansa will both benefit from the vast experience gathered by the Lufthansa group member airlines, Swiss International Air Lines, Austrian Airlines, Eurowings, Brussels Airlines and Lufthansa CityLine, with some of them using AMOS for almost 20 years.

After completing the in-depth Definition Phase including AMOS business process/interface workshops and the specification of comprehensive business requirements, the Lufthansa Executive Board has now approved the start of the project’s Implementation Phase. A highly skilled and dedicated team of Lufthansa German Airlines and Lufthansa Cargo aviation experts supported by Swiss-AS Consultants and Project Managers will guide the flag carrier through this next project phase. Both carriers will implement AMOS including AMOSmobile for its Line Maintenance and CAMO Operations, based on best practice processes already implemented within the group.

«With Lufthansa German Airlines we welcome a customer to our community which has decades of aviation experience and a strong focus on driving innovation for the entire group and industry», says Ronald Schaeuffele, CEO of Swiss Aviation Software. From the moment of cut-over, the line maintenance operations will be fully paperless by using AMOSmobile. This will, in part, be realised by interfacing AMOS with Lufthansa’s Electronic Techlog Solution ensuring the status of the entire passenger fleet is live and fully accessible throughout AMOS at all times.

Fabiano Faccoli, COO of Swiss-AS, adds: «Swiss Aviation Software provides to its customers deep industry insight and knowledge, valuable project management experience and the necessary skillsets for complex digital transformation projects. Our customers are the key success factor in our agile development approach during and after implementation, since the customers form part of the development process from early requirement specification through testing to final product delivery».

“AMOS, which is already used as a standard tool by many LH group airlines, will also help us at Lufthansa to make our Technical Fleet Management processes even more transparent and, above all, even more efficient. Among other things, we are relying on the already very broad AMOS know-how of our sister companies. We chose AMOS because of its 30 years of success in the industry, but also because of its continuous product innovations, which help us to establish state-of-the-art processes in Technical Fleet Management at Lufthansa as well.” says Klaus Froese, CEO Lufthansa German Airlines Hub Frankfurt.

As announced in the previous Aircraft IT release, dgBirds, an Air France subsidiary created in 2017, is continuing its expansion, with new customers and a lot of innovative features already released (Documentation and Mission / Briefing) and to come (Mission / Reports, Mission / Briefing with dynamic data, Communication).

EFB should stand for “Enhanced Flight Bag”: a series of articles published via social media

In an industry where safety and performance are a must, dgBirds decided to share its expertise  via a series of articles called “EFB should stand for Enhanced Flight Bag”, written by Sébastien Veigneau, dgBirds President (who is also Air France A320 Captain and EFB expert) and published on a fortnight basis via social media, especially Linkedin (EFB should stand for Enhanced Flight Bag_Linkedin).

Based on his experience, Sébastien shares about why and how:

• Electronic Flight Bag became a major asset to help airlines and pilots ensure flight safety
• With more benefits to be delivered, EFB should become “Enhanced” Flight Bags

Targeted audience is not only Pilots, EFB Admin, OCC, IT but also all travellers interested in learning how flights are prepared and performed: this is not about a simple tool, this is about airlines’ capabilities to enhance flight safety, operational performance and Passengers experience.

This series of articles is being published in the following sequence:

• From EFB to iPads (Sept 24^th 2019)
• Leverage your Pilots experience (October 8^th)
• Challenges for regulators and standards (October 22^nd)
• As a Pilot, I want (November 5^th)
• What EFBs should and should not do (November 19^th)
• When” give pilots a tablet rather than “why” (December 3^rd)
• Enhanced Flight Bag: a move to “home to home”(December 17^th)

Therefore, an open forum for our industry to discuss, share experience and contribute to improvement of flight operations.

An expertise celebrated at the Paris Air Forum

This expertise, source of innovation for the airline industry, has been celebrated at the Paris Air Forum, where dgBirds received, from Airbus, the 2019 prize for Innovation.

dgBirds

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www.dgbirds.com, contact@dgbirds.com

14th November 2019

We’re pleased to announce that we are well on the way to almost doubling the size of our team as we successfully completed the expansion into our second office.

Based at The Deep Business Centre in Hull, the new office is now up and running and we are on the lookout for even more talent to join our existing team as we prepare for further growth.

Shane Spencer, Managing Director said: “The move to Hull has been great for the business and due to continued success, we’re recruiting again as we’ve created some brand new roles. We’re looking for talented, committed people to join our team supporting new contracts and to help with our plans for growth over the next few years.”

Our sister company Keyzo was founded by Shane in 2009 to provide next generation software for a range of business sectors, and it has become a leader in supplying human resources and health and safety software solutions.

In 2014, the company moved into the aviation industry with the acquisition of Bytron Aviation Systems. Shane brought both businesses together at the Head Offices in Kirmington, near to Humberside International Airport.

Now in our 35th year, we’re going from strength to strength with our award winning software, skybook – a fully-integrated flight dispatch, crew briefing and Electronic Flight Bag system.

Meanwhile, Keyzo has developed its HR and Health and Safety software range which includes induct&train, read&sign and staffportal.

We announced our expansion at the beginning of 2019 as we began a drive to add to the existing team of thirty as part of the development of skybook.

Shane said: “The response to our recruitment campaign was so positive that we took the decision to expand even further across the business. The new staff have been fully trained up at our head office over the last three months and are doing a fantastic job.

“The new recruits are a mix of graduates who have come straight from university and others are experienced professionals.”

Simon Clayton, the company’s Technical Director, added: We are up to over forty staff overall and we now have more roles available in Hull and Kirmington with immediate effect. We’re looking for QA Software Testers and IT Support Engineers and in the coming months could double the size of our team compared with April.

“Opening the Hull office will make it easier for us to expand because of the nature and the location of The Deep Business Centre and the availability in the local area of the skills we need. The move has gone very well and the staff at The Deep have been excellent, supporting us every step of the way.”

Freya Cross, Head of Business and Corporate at The Deep, said: “We specialise in providing flexible space and standing ready to support expanding businesses when they need us.

“We are delighted that Keyzo’s expansion to Hull is already proving to be a success. We know from experience that there is a great deal of expertise in the region’s technology sector and we look forward to helping Keyzo as they add to the opportunities available.”

Go to our careers page for more information on the current roles with Bytron

MIAMI, Nov. 5, 2019 — WestJet has successfully completed the first phase of their plans for mobilizing maintenance operations with TRAX eMobility apps. The QuickTurn iOS app is now in use. Having tasks, job cards and manuals on a tablet allow for online / offline access at the point of work for the AMEs which results in significant time and cost savings. Mechanics can conduct the necessary gate activity for aircraft defects upon landing or prior to takeoff. Features include: Delay Recording, Aircraft Part Number Transactions, Troubleshooting, Defects Deferrals or Closings, Dent Mapping, and Parts Requirements.

The next phase is to add the TaskControl, AeroDox and Line Control apps. WestJet joins the increasing number of TRAX customers incorporating eMobility apps with their Trax M&E software in the search for an efficient paperless maintenance operation. TRAX congratulates WestJet on its successful first phase of implementing mobile solutions.