The release of CrewLogic and CrewSim for APM‑6 has underlined APM’s status as a goto provider of comprehensive end-to-end crew management software for airlines.
Continue reading »APM’s at the heart of aviation industry this week: We’re exhibiting at the bi-annual IATA Slot Conference, which begins in Prague today.
Our focus for this event is network profitably.
In particular, we’re demonstrating how APM’s powerful suite of simulation tools, developed by our team in Geneva, really help.
When it comes to forecasting profitability, ProfitSim is a tool that inspires confidence.
A powerful forecasting application, ProfitSim let’s users test the profitability of schedule scenarios – from a single rotation, sector or route, right through to an entire network.
It’s flexible too. For instance, ProfitSim can calculate projected flight revenue forecasts based on seat load factors.
The application is able to calculate revenue, direct operating costs and allocate overheads to generate a net profitability forecast.
Crucially, ProfitSim helps airlines identify potentially loss-making and low-margin flights; delivering vital insight that informs flight operation decision-making.
It’s the combination of APM’s simulation tools that make them such valuable operational and strategic tools.
Take ScheduleSim with ProfitSim, for instance: By combining the power of APM’s schedule scenario planning tool and forecasting application, airlines can pinpoint profitability by network, schedule, fleet, route, flight type and destination.
ScheduleSim offers the capacity to create potentially limitless scenarios, export them to ProfitSim, and then analyse each scenario against a customisable database of supplier and direct operating costs in order to calculate the profitability per scenario.
Once the best schedule option’s been selected, ScheduleSim allows users to prepare and submit slot submissions and export the selected schedule scenario into SchedulePlanner (or an airline’s current live production schedule software).
ProfitSim and ScheduleSim are just two of the many reasons airline’s worldwide rely on APM’s suite of scheduling and slot management, and flightwatch, crewing and commercial software.
So, if you’re at Slot Conference this week, be sure to stop by to take a look at ProfitSim at Slot Conference this week.
It may be 18 months away but for European operators the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) deadline of 18 February 2016 for new EU-wide flight time limitation (FLT) rules already looms large.
Readiness for EASA’s harmonised fatigue risk management regulations represents a challenge for airlines. European Teams with responsibility for safety management systems (SMS), risk and regulatory compliance, crew rostering and management, and scheduling and day-of-flight operations each must have a critical plan to a successful transition.
Continue reading »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.
The ability to synchronise offline scheduling and crewing simulations with live production data is one of a raft of enhancements included in APM‑5 — the latest release of APM’s suite of integrated modules for aviation scheduling, crewing, flightwatch and commercial operations.
The synchronisation feature means that users can easily draw on the latest live data from APM’s SchedulePlanner and CrewLogic as they create and test scheduling, crew roster and establishment scenarios using ScheduleSim and CrewSim tools.
Live sync is one a number of innovations, designed to support airlines’ pursuit of the marginal gains that help drive improved operational performance and profitability, which is included in APM‑5.
Alongside live sync, APM has refined the algorithm at the heart of its Optimiser engine, enabling users to easily create and compare — using data visualisation-based reporting — multiple crewing scenarios that address individual KPIs, such as duty time, while simultaneously shaping broader, targeted, KPIs.
Among other highlights, APM‑5 includes an enhanced feature within its Commercial module that enables easier fuel consumption analysis, and an extended Crewing module feature that offers users the ability to create individual training programmes that can be assigned to personal training plans.
These, and other enhancements included in APM‑5, will be available to view first-hand in a 10-minute demonstration of APM’s suite of modules at the Swiss-based software brand’s stand at the forthcoming IATA Slot Conference in Copenhagen from 20–22 June 2013.
To arrange a demonstration simply email info@apmtechnologies or call +41 22 717 8499.