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WHEN YOUR AIRLINE DEMANDS an automated flight and crew management system choose SkedFlex, the full-featured, affordable, innovative, expertly supported air operations suite designed to meet your needs and exceed your expectations. With its scalable, cloud-based platform and optional modules, SkedFlex is the ideal choice for any airline.
SKEDFLEX A BETTER ALTERNATIVE IN AIRLINE AUTOMATION SkedFlex offers cost-effective software solutions to manage an airline s most valuable assets its people and its fleet. Our sophisticated, easy-to-use flight management system allows you to plan and oversee crew and operations at the same time in real-time. And SkedFlex ensures compliance with regulatory requirements and company-specific policies and procedures. Quality of Life, Quantified Simply put, life is better with SkedFlex. Whether supporting a full-service airline with more than 40,000 personnel, or a regional, charter or cargo carrier with fewer than 100, SkedFlex improves business performance. Tangible results include reduced operating costs, workload and errors, as well as improved efficiency and safety. Users also report increased morale among employees, and as a result, lower absenteeism and turnover. We are passionate about their quality of life, and we care just as much about yours. Our pledge? Nothing short of fanatical support to every single customer. Flexibility The New Competitive Advantage By combining automation with a high level of customization, SkedFlex addresses your immediate business needs and will scale to help achieve tomorrow s growth. It s a welcome alternative to high-priced, outdated and poorly supported systems. The SkedFlex approach to today s complex regulatory environment is innovative and user-friendly, and can integrate with existing frameworks or operate as a stand-alone solution. From daily operations to advance planning, SkedFlex allows you to optimize, schedule and track your workforce and fleet.
Playing By The Rules Just Got Easier The success and growth of your business depends on efficiently managing personnel and balancing their needs while navigating complex flight, duty and rest requirements. By automating planning, day-of and post-flight operations, SkedFlex reduces overhead, optimizes efficiency and increases loyalty while ensuring compliance. Unlike other systems, SkedFlex is easy to use. At a glance, you can visualize your entire organization and get the detailed statistics down to the level of individual crewmembers needed to implement all aspects of management, tracking and scheduling, including training and vacation shifts. Crewmembers benefit from 24/7 schedule access and can request changes anywhere, from any device, and automatic reminders and notifications mean they re in the right place at the right time. SkedFlex helps your pilots and crew maintain their quality of life and helps you retain them. OPTIMIZE CREW SCHEDULING & MANAGEMENT Rules Management Say goodbye to spreadsheets playing by the rules just got easier. Our sophisticated rules engine manages compliance, so you don t have to. Complies with FAR Parts 91, 117, 121 FA/Supplemental, 125, and 135 Scheduled/Non-Scheduled. Heated, color-coded warnings show severity of buffer violations. Customizable to accommodate company rules and settings. Crew Tracking Immediately gauge the legality of your operation, employees, trips and flights. FAA-required crew data displayed in an intuitive, userfriendly format. Spark lines show crewmember limits and violations. Detailed analysis of individual stats like duty days and flight days. Vacation & Training Employees get full view of openings for time off, and supervisors can choose optimal dates to schedule training improving morale and efficiency. See scheduled vacation and training events for an entire year. Training and vacation shifts instantly display with proper duration. Decrease negative effects of schedules on employees and management.
Scheduling & Notifications Trip Trading Pilot Logbook Bring operations to life no matter where you are you ll spend less time addressing schedule issues, and more time enhancing operations. Increase retention of pilots and crew by giving them authority to change schedules, at no cost to you. Our integrated system eliminates manual approval in 85% of trades, while retaining ultimate approval for administrators. Pilots can track and view flying records and effortlessly manage their own aircraft in one place. Create schedules in advance or make critical day of changes. Customized templates enable large-scale scheduling for all shift types, including reserves. Immediately displays the legality of potential schedule changes. Automated notifications of schedules and duty changes sent using methods preferred by individual crewmembers. Multiple supervisors can access and update schedules simultaneously. Daily Flight Schedule Page showing tomorrow s flights and highlighting a captain who is close to exceeding a duty limit. ã Active Schedule Page with sparklines in view showing trend information for FAR flight and duty limits. â Automatic shift/trip trades triple within six months of implementation. Allows crew to pick up, drop or swap trips, shifts and partial shifts. S end requests to specific users or an entire category. Trades with legality issues do not execute, and customizable restrictions ensure adherence to company rules. H elps reduce overstaffing and overtime costs. Automated entry of company flying. M anual entry of recreational and outside company flying (OCF). O CF and recreational flying easily differentiated from company flying by background color. See compilation of flight and duty stats totals.
Fleet and Flights Done Right Make rapid, informed decisions using dynamic tools for flight and fleet management which are seamlessly integrated with the SkedFlex crew management system. By combining aircraft and crew into a comprehensive air operations suite, SkedFlex ensures you have the who, what, when and where you need with a single and straightforward approach. Schedulers and dispatchers will save time and shed frustration when given the ability to assign equipment and personnel on an immense scale. You ll see greater efficiencies and more quickly recover from delays, cancellations, diversions and aircraft changes, as SkedFlex instantly communicates them throughout your organization. DYNAMIC TOOLS FOR RAPID, INFORMED FLEET MANAGEMENT Visual Aircraft Tracking Make on-the-fly decisions with a dynamic representation of virtually all aircraft, flight, crew and ground operations. Assign tail numbers and track for last known location, crew, flight and equipment status. See schedule by base, equipment and tail number, with autoupdating of actual vs. scheduled. Color codes signal flights in progress, in the future and in the past. Define routing and required crew positions. Up to seven-day Gantt view of all flight details, and monthly rollup of flight numbers. Integrates and differentiates flights operating under different FAR rule sets. Flight Schedule Importer Quickly populate a monthly schedule of flight segments with little manual input. Imports flight data using IATA standard SSIM-formatted messaging and checks for mismatches. Integrates with external systems and updates flight schedules. Perform imports daily or for a specific date range. Run multiple what if scenarios for the same equipment and base before finalizing a schedule. Flight & Shift Templates Simplify the large-scale creation of flights, shifts, assignments, routes and trips with templates. Create customized flight and shift templates, then combine flights into routes. Make flight templates ahead and export when needed; shift templates appear upon creation. Non-sked airlines can combine flight templates with route building to greatly streamline building monthly schedules.
Route Building When combined with flights, route building allows you to create massive numbers of assignments quickly and maximize crew resources. Customize routes for any equipment and base combination. Only allows routes that are physically possible. Select or prevent days for routes to run. Once assigned, a route assigns everything else, including attached reserve crew. A reserve shift can be tacked on to the beginning or end of a route, so it is assigned when the trip is assigned. OOOI & Aircraft Movement SkedFlex integrates with external systems to clearly track and share all aircraft movement on the ground and in the air to reduce mistakes and save time. Automatically captures precise Out, Off, On and In (OOOI) times from ACARS, TAMDAR or AFIRS equipped aircraft, or OOOI times can be manually entered. Detects delays and estimates new Out and In times. Flight verification gives scheduler the final say. Real-time movement messages include taxi-backs, air returns, diversions and cancellations. Flight Log Custom log designed for use on pilot Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) tracks desired aspects of flight, even when in the air or without an internet connection. Allows permitted administrators or pilots to enter and verify flight data. Verified flight information cannot be unverified, but can be altered if necessary. Includes cargo and passenger counts, fuel amounts, OOOI times, night flying and delay codes, among many others. ã EFB Flight Log displaying all legs for today s trip. â Adding a new routing for flight #1612 to return to HNL on Fridays in February.
SKEDFLEX A BETTER ALTERNATIVE IN AIRLINE AUTOMATION Planning Crew Management Operations Management Air Opera ons Suite Day of Ops Post Flight Crew Scheduling & Tracking Crew Web/Mobile Interface Reserve & Open Assignment Management Crew Notifications, Acknowledgment & Check-in Pilot Logbook Vacation/Training Tracking Line Bidding Module Trip/Shift Trading Crew Qualifications and Training Module Crew Pay Module Flight Scheduling & Tracking Flight, Shift, and Work Area Templates Route Planning/Building Movement Messages Flight Schedule Importer Automated OOOIs Flight Log Fleet Management Module Airport Operations Management Module Network Planning Module (powered by AirSched Solutions) Commercial Planning Module (powered by AirSched Solutions) Maintenance Management Module (powered by QAV Aviation Systems) If your airline is of a size that requires an automated flight and crew management system, SkedFlex is the full-featured, innovative, economical and fanatically supported air operations suite that will meet your needs. This map of the software in summary displays the wide range of benefits and features included in the suite. In addition, SkedFlex offers several optional modules which automate and streamline different aspects of crew and operations management to become a very powerful all-in-one crew, flight and operations management system. Business Intelligence Module (powered by Sisense) 100% Web Based SaaS Rules Engine QA/Testing Environment Legend Core Component Additional Module Suite-wide Features Solutions taking flight 1013 E Winding Creek Drive, Suite 102, Eagle, Idaho 83616 208-424-9424 ettaviation.com