Flight Operations
Minimize fuel burn. Maximize revenue.
Manage disruptions effectively. Improve efficiency.
These are just a few of the needs of aircraft operators.
SITA Flight Operations maximize crew and flight plan management, minimizing costs without compromising security.
SITA know-how
SITA’s unrivalled experience in the air transport industry and our know-how in the use of advanced applications help airlines manage all processes of flight operations. We provide end-to-end connections, integrated applications and act as a central communications hub for the global air transport industry ecosystem.
Specifically, Flight Operations:
- Addresses business, operational and safety needs of all stakeholders involved in flight operations (pilot and cabin staff, dispatchers, air traffic controllers, etc.)
- Simplifies flight operations by delivering services that integrate critical applications with data linking - effectively extending the application into the aircraft cockpit
- Offers a unique combination of applications to support flight operations with a global network, providing links via satellite and VHF radio to aircraft computers
- Combines software solutions with industry best practices to maximize asset utilization
- Minimizes costs without compromising security
- Delivers real-time data exchange with aircraft and crew worldwide
Benefits
Flight Operations provide benefits in four areas. Each area represents one phase of the aircraft operations lifecycle.
These four phases are sequential for each flight, but they also run constantly in parallel for different flights.
Flight scheduling
- Achieve a profitable flight schedule by matching capacity with demand
- Optimize assets with proper utilization of aircraft and crew
- Minimize schedule disruptions and ensure regulatory compliance by scheduling aircraft maintenance checks at the proper time
Flight planning and operations control
- Accelerate information exchange processes with automated data communications
- Receive up-to-date, real-time information to evaluate best available route to fly
- Legal, efficient pre-flight briefing documents
- Respond effectively to disruption when your competitors cannot
Aircraft flight
- Receive real-time flight planning and weather information in-flight
Aircraft turnaround
- Reduce the need for pilots to leave the cockpit during turnaround
- Protect on-time performance
Features
Flight Operations include the following features.
Flight scheduling
- Assigns aircraft type
- Assigns specific aircraft
- Rosters and assigns crew
Flight planning and operations control
- Finalizes specific aircraft and crew
- Manages any changes and delays
- Prepares flight plan per best available route and weather forecasts
Aircraft flight
- Provides Air Traffic Control (ATC) instructions via data to aircraft
- Provides real-time weather updates to aircraft
- Provides real-time aircraft position and status messages
- Provides aircraft performance report to maintenance personnel
Aircraft turnaround
- Delivers flight plan route to aircraft flight management computer
- Provides load sheet and take-off data to aircraft
- Provides ATC clearance to aircraft
- Provides new route to avoid ATC delays
- Optimizes delay management