APM Scheduling Solutions

Arguably, the schedule is what underpins an airline’s ability to run efficiently and to thus make a profit. Regardless of the size of airline, it is critical to posses the right planning and decision making tools to ensure the balance of fleet availability and capacity with market demand. Economic and competitive pressures have never been so great, APM’s founding principles are based on comprehensive fleet management and financial performance ensuring you are prepared to face any challenge.

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SchedulePlanner

The SchedulePlanner user can opt to work in either text mode or use the graphical flight display for flight creation. These flights are created using commercial flight numbers, but the software also provides the functionality to link a commercial flight number with an air traffic control flight number.

Within the graphical display is an optimiser that can assist the user in allocating flight sectors to aircraft, automatically taking into account aircraft on the ground and airport ground times. The objective, of course, is to allow you to allocate your fleet in a time efficient manner, achieving the maximum usage from your resources. Flight times can be displayed in both UTC and local time, and the worldwide ISO time zones within the module are automatically updated as part of the package.

The SchedulePlanner system also incorporates a fully integrated slot module, thereby enabling the user to generate IATA compliant individual and batch SCR messages that can be forwarded to airport coordinators to obtain slot permissions. The SchedulePlanner system synchronises the flight programme with the slot status of each flight, so the user can easily identify where to send new or improved slot requests.

A number of reports are available from within the system, including identifying aircraft block and flights hours, the airline’s programme plot, plus timetable and schedule displays.

As with all APM modules, SchedulePlanner is fully integrated with all other modules and therefore automatically feeds flight and other appropriate data into APM’s crewing (CrewLogic), flight watch (SmartOps) and finance modules without the need for any intermediary software.

SchedulePlanner simplifies the complex issue of scheduling and slot management.

Agile and dependable software to maximise your profitability

For improved awareness and control of your schedule, APM provides two additional modules designed to work with and compliment SchedulePlanner.


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SchedulePlanner offers:

  • Graphical display of flight sectors, flight rotations and flight series.
  • Graphical views of schedules with easy scrolling and ‘drag and drop’ options.
  • Tabular text displays of all schedules.
  • Optimised allocation of flight sectors to aircraft thereby improving aircraft utilisation and efficiency.
  • User definable display options, allowing users to customise their display.
  • Flight sectors created by the system taking into consideration, flight type, range, aircraft access and airport curfew limitations.
  • Commercial and air traffic control flight number displays.
  • An over-flight database providing the user with a range of selected route block time options.
  • The ability to allocate aircraft to standstill and maintenance events.Airline plot report.
  • Aircraft activity reports.
  • Aircraft block and flight time reports.
  • A comprehensive range of other reports and statistics with user defined outputs and formats, including RTF, MS Excel and PDF.
  • Comprehensive flight audit and search options.
  • SchedulePlanner processes information directly into SmartOps and CrewLogic, so any flight amendments are immediately updated in the system from a shared single database. SchedulePlanner simplifies the complex issue of scheduling and slot management.
  • User friendly wizards enabling all sectors - including round the world flights - to be created in one wizard.
  • Flight sector clearance check lists and tracking functions.
  • Expected passenger display options.
  • Fully integrated slot and sector management, and tracking functionality with automatic generation and ingest of SCR messages.
  • Improved communication utilising email and IATA messaging standards such as SSIM, SSM, FPL and SCR.
  • Comprehensive airport database including curfews, addresses, hotel and handling agent details.
  • Automatic time zone updates.
  • Comprehensive fleet database including turnaround times, range and landing limitations. Agile and dependable software to maximise your profitability
  • An over-flight database providing the user with a range of selected route block time options.
  • The ability to allocate aircraft to standstill and maintenance events.
  • Airline plot report.
  • Aircraft activity reports.
  • Aircraft block and flight time reports.
  • A comprehensive range of other reports and statistics with user defined outputs and formats, including RTF, MS Excel and PDF.
  • Comprehensive flight audit and search options.
  • SchedulePlanner processes information directly into SmartOps and CrewLogic, so any flight amendments are immediately updated in the system from a shared single database.

SchedulePlanner simplifies the complex issue of scheduling and slot management.

Agile and dependable software to maximise your profitability

For improved awareness and control of your schedule, APM provides two additional modules designed to work with and compliment SchedulePlanner.

WebOps

WebOps is a web browser allowing remote, real-time access to scheduling and flight watch displays and is an add-on feature to SchedulePlanner and SmartOps.

WebOps provides an internet or intranet link for remote users to gain full access to all real-time scheduling and flight watch displays, wherever they may be around the globe.

WebOps offers:

  • Either fully graphical or text view only of schedules and day of operation.
  • The software provides functionality for remote users to update OOOI times for their airport of choice.
  • The ability to obtain and print Transport Operation reports.
  • Remote access to view and update Flight Logs for any particular flight.
  • The ability to assign User Rights to limit aircraft and flight views.

WebOps provides key schedule information to remote users and locations

ScheduleSim

ScheduleSim enables users to create schedule scenarios without any interruption to the Live Production schedule. Filtering options are available by aircraft type and all functionality that is available in SchedulePlanner is also available in ScheduleSim.

ScheduleSim offers:

  • The ability to import a snapshot of an existing Production schedule from SchedulePlanner and run multiple scenarios to make amendments as necessary.
  • Schedules can be built and imported back into SchedulePlanner.
  • Compare scenarios for performance.
  • Create new schedule scenarios without disruption to the Live Production schedule.
  • Run multiple scenarios ready for import into SchedulePlanner.
  • ScheduleSim is easy to use and does not require any training if users are already familiar with SchedulePlanner.

TecPlanner

The scheduling and control of maintenance activities is pivotal to the cost effective running of an airline. Optimum use of all aircraft must to be achieved to ensure the airline operates to its full potential. All too often airlines operate an unbalanced fleet as a result of the maintenance plan becoming out of step with the demands of the schedule. As a consequence, revenue is lost due to maintenance events having to occur before limits are reached.

The APM TecPlanner module is the solution to the maintenance planning dilemma. Taking advantage of the integrated database structure, airline maintenance departments can plan, control and track all maintenance related activities in harmony with the commercial and operations departments empowering the airline to maintain full discipline of the fleet availability. TecPlanner contains a powerful optimizer designed to assign a host of maintenance activities to the available fleet based on user definable parameters.

Airline operators can improve fleet utilization through cross-departmental visibility and tracking of maintenance due dates, cycles and hours. Maintenance limits can be set to achieve a user defined tolerance on all maintenance activities reducing expensive downtime costs.

An intuitive and user friendly graphical display depicts available cycles, flight hours until the next maintenance requirement, due dates by tail and warnings that alert the user to expiry’s by date, hours, cycles or other parameters set by the user. Maintenance tasks assigned in TecPlanner are displayed in SchedulePlanner and SmartOps ensuring real-time visibility of all maintenance activities.

TecPlanner Offers:

  • Optimised construction of maintenance events in accordance with company requirements
  • Aircraft allocation control
  • Intuitive graphical display depicting all planned maintenance activities based on historic and expected flight time, cycles and due dates by tail
  • Maintenance event warnings
  • The ability for maintenance events to be conducted and communicated rapidly within the airline
  • The ability to share data with 3rd party MRO systems such as AMOS and Amysis
    A range of reports and statistics with user defined outputs and formats
  • A comprehensive fleet database to manage all data relating to the company fleet

TecPlanner allows the user to be flexible and adaptable to the ever changing demands of the schedule ensuring that profitability is not compromised through poor maintenance planning.