APM has added an interface to the LIDO flight planning system to its range of available API exchange integration options from APM’s SmartOps module.
Integration with LIDO is now available as an optional addition to APM’s systems, enabling users to transmit and receive messages between APM modules and the flight planning tool, which is widely used within airline dispatch processes.
The messages available from APM to LIDO are:
ASM: ASMs for LIDO flight planning tool. Messages are sent for the next two days before operations departure date.
WAB – Weight and Balance Message: for each commercial sector, the message records either the expected or booked passenger numbers by gender and class, and adult, child and infant, and then uses an APM weight dictionary to compute weights. Additionally, for each commercial sector, the freight is entered into the flight sector information window.
The sum of the freight, passenger and crew weight values, based on the weight dictionary, calculates the total of the payload to transmit in the WAB message to LIDO.
CMS message: Crew data message based on crew information from CrewLogic for crew briefing giving pilot-in-command name, crew code, other crew roles and names, plus duty position flight number and date. APM users must be using CrewLogic for this message to include appropriate details.
FUP: Fuel Price Message, taken from the financial tables in APM’s financial systems, by airport fuel price, valid-from and valid-to dates.
MVT messages: Sent for actual time updates.
Posting Message: To MQSeries for various docs from APM to LIDO. For example, GenDec can be sent from the APM system to Lido for flight briefings.
Message from LIDO to APM: APM collect these messages from the MQSeries Lido API with a service scan.
WABi: This message includes ETE, planned trip fuel and estimated block fuel. This message is used within APM’s system to update actual times based on the departure time of the sector, total fuel and planned trip fuel.
The APM SmartOps module proposes a dedicated wizard to validate the payload calculation. This wizard also permits the user to attach various flight documents (e.g. PDF’s) which will be then gathered by Lido into the Flight Briefing sheet.
The Lido API from APM is subject to specification and additional cost.