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LIDO flight planning API integration option announced by APM

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.



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