APM - Seamless software solutions

Aviation software solutions

APM - Seamless software solutions

Menu

Aviation software solutions

Blog

IATA Slot Conference, Prague: We’re all about network profitability

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.

November 11th, 2014

3 EASA FTL-ready features you should already expect from your software

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 »
September 8th, 2014

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.

July 9th, 2013

Live-sync and simulation enhancements among highlights of APM‑5

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.

June 17th, 2013

New algorithmic approach generates up to 5 per cent gain in crewing performance

APM’s Dr Nik Eggen­berg will demon­strate how the adop­tion of ‘col­umn gen­er­a­tion’ algo­r­tihms with­in crew sim­u­la­tion soft­ware can deliv­er a per­for­mance improve­ment of between 3–5 per cent when he speaks at AGIFORS’ Crew Man­age­ment con­fer­ence in Frank­furt lat­er this month.

Using evi­dence drawn from real-life air­line case stud­ies, Nik will high­light how an opti­miser apply­ing meta­heuris­tic col­umn gen­er­a­tion, such as that adopt­ed in APM’s crew­ing sim­u­la­tion envi­ron­ment CrewSim, can gen­er­ate greater effi­cien­cies in the iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of crew estab­lish­ments, opti­mi­sa­tion and post-flight per­for­mance analysis.

He will explain that a col­umn gen­er­a­tion-based opti­miser enables users to tack­le mul­ti­ple-objec­tive opti­mi­sa­tion one KPI at a time.

By trans­lat­ing algo­rithms into a dynam­ic user-friend­ly inter­face — with graphs enabling easy iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of the best pare­to-opti­mal solu­tion and post-flight per­for­mance analy­sis — users are able to eas­i­ly iden­ti­fy both indi­vid­ual KPIs, such as indi­vid­ual duty time, that can simul­ta­ne­ous­ly con­tribute to the iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of broad­er, tar­get­ed, KPIs such as opti­mi­sa­tion of block time.

Nik will deliv­er his pre­sen­ta­tion — called ‘A Ros­ter Sim­u­la­tion solu­tion for Opti­mi­sa­tion Estab­lish­ment and Per­for­mance Analy­sis’ — at the AGIFORS event on 18 June.

May 31st, 2013
Developed in Switzerland

Copyright © 2002-2024, APM Technologies SA, Geneva. All Rights Reserved

Developed in Switzerland

Disclaimer: Whilst every attempt has been made to provide up to date and accurate information in this web site, APM retains the right to amend our services and products without reference or obligation.