Optimize Airplane Routes and Speeds, Reduce Fuel Consumption and Maximize Payloads
Changing weather conditions. New route restrictions. Unexpected airport closures. Dispatchers and pilots must have real-time access to this information to generate the optimum operational flight plans (OFPs) your business needs to run smoothly. These OFPs must produce the most cost-effective flight plan possible while strictly adhering to all relevant company directives – such as duty regulations.
EDS Flight Planning is a powerful, next-generation system for generating fuel-efficient operational flight plans
EDS Flight Planning helps your dispatchers and pilots evaluate all the external factors that affect flight plans and react more quickly to this ever-changing environment using an intuitive Web-based graphical interface. This advanced, comprehensive system promptly calculates the best OFP, taking into consideration weather, navigational data, airport restrictions and other influences.
- Easy Route and Pilot Plan – automates route maintenance and provides self-planning tools for pilots
- Crew Briefing Package – bundles flight-specific documents into one package for the flight crew and makes it available through the Internet
- FlightGlobe – provides powerful visual cues for flight watch and analysis of conditions around the world
- NOTAM and SMART NOTAM – gives critical “notices to airmen” regarding flight planning and operations
- Best Route Selection – reviews route restrictions and automatically determines flyable routes
- Automatic Airport Selection – enables selection of airports by operational hours, weather status and infrastructure status
- Historical and Statistical Weather Data – lets operators search statistical winds back to 1948 for random routes for planning and analysis
- Least Cost Flight Planning – calculates a variety of optimum flight plans reflecting chosen criteria such as fuel cost and/or over flight charges
Automate Processes and Improve Decision Making
The service-oriented architecture of EDS Flight Planning makes the addition of new services easier and the integration of your weight and balance, operation, and core systems seamless.
Our solution delivers marked improvements in:
- Quality – automates the calculation of standard OFPs, enabling staff to focus on critical OFPs
- Reliability – delivers the trouble-free, high-availability operation needed for mission-critical solutions via an optimized system with multiple hardware and connection capabilities
- Collaboration – increases operational data transparency and information sharing by integrating core systems
- Flexibility – lets you determine the appropriate features for your business and easily expand OFP capabilities as your business changes
- Management – provides in-flight management of multiple systems, including navigational data, seasonal defaults, surface weather and communications
Reduce Costs With More Effective OFPs
Tackle your two biggest cost areas – fuel and labor – with a flight-planning system developed by the world's leading airline IT services provider.
- Optimization – considers optimal tracks, route restrictions, altitude and speed profiles, and other factors in finding the most cost-effective routes
- Staffing – allows dispatchers to efficiently handle more flights by automating manual tasks and streamlining flight-planning organization
- Productivity – helps dispatchers make faster decisions and concentrate on problem flights by using a “manage by exception” interface
- Operations – lowers fuel consumption, avoids most costly over-fly regions and reduces flight times
- Download the Flight Planning At-A-Glance PDF, 165K
For more information about what EDS can do for you, submit a business inquiry.