GoDirect Airline Portal

OverviewWould you like to save costs in the communication with your crew members and ground personnel, and increase the quality of the communication at the same time?

Needless to say, keeping crew members up-to-date with various information, like duty plans, flight information, company news, documents, etc. is very important. However, the traditional, manual processes with paper and/or various non-integrated IT solutions are staff-intensive, expensive, and error prone.

GoDirect Airline Portal offers a new, integrated approach, which tackles these problems and has proven to significantly reduce costs, response-time, and error rate at several airlines since 2003.

The GoDirect Airline Portal is a comprehensive product, tailored to the needs of airlines. It has been made by people from the airline industry who understand the “daily life” of airlines.

The Portal is also about being intelligent with your crews. Crew members appreciate being better informed and having access to all their information at any place and at any time.

Our airline customers use the GoDirect Airline Portal not only for the communication and information of their crews, but also for general communication within their airlines, and even for the communication with their various external suppliers.

Features and functionalitiesThe GoDirect Airline Portal runs on any web-browser, like Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari or Google Chrome.

The functionalities of the GoDirect Airline Portal can be grouped into Crew Information, Flight Information, Communication, Document Management & Reports, and User and System-administration.

An important role is played by the portal integration layer, which contains adapters for data-bases as well as adapters for many airline and non airline applications.

Portal integration layerIntegration of IT systems is a key topic for any airline. Airlines want to make full use of their existing systems and preserve the investments already made. The Portal uses an integration layer and provides many adapters for databases and airline applications. Adapters for the following solutions are already used by our customers:

• Flight operations systems:Netline, AIMS, Sabre

• Flight planning systems: Lido, Sabre, Navtech, Jeppesen, axsFlightplanning,

SkyTrack, AirData

• FDM / FOQA / FODA systems: AGS/Sagem, Aerobytes, CAE Flightscape, Teledyne,

Austin Digital, ATM

• Crew planning systems: Netline, AIMS, Sabre

• DCS / Pax systems: axsControl, Paxport, Altea

• Maintenance systems: AMOS

• Type B / Messaging / ACARS / Datalink systems:ARINC, SITA, ArCom, EDIFly

• Eurocontrol systems: CRCO, CFMU, CODA

• HR systems:SAP/HR

• Fuel accounting and financial controlling systems:Airpas, FuelPlus

• Various Wx and NOTAM systems

• Various systems internally developed by theairlines

Information & communication - anyplace - anytime

Benefits for operations

• Faster communicationand informationexchange with crews

• Better reach of crews atany place and at any time

• Cost savings with “self-service” approach*

• Relief for ground staff from routine com-munication tasks

• Less errors dueto automation

• Flexible customizationof GoDirect Airline Portal according to an airline’s requirements

Benefits for IT

• Proven and reliable software

• Low license and lowoperating costs

• Different deployment options (installation at customer or ASP hosting by Honeywell)

• Rapid deployment with“off-the-shelf” product

• Integration framework, allowing integration of various company applications and databases

• Fast performance even for large airlines with several thousands of crew members

Benefits for crews

• Better informed crews

• Increased motivation

• Easy to learn and consistent user-inter-face

• Information access at anyplace and at any time

*“Self-service”-approach: crews access information themselves – no requirement to actively contact them.

Crew Information

Flight Information

Communication

Document Management & Reports

User- and System administration

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Airline Portal

GoDirect Airline Portal showing a monthly Duty Plan of a crew member

GoDirect Airline Portal showing the Flight Briefing selection dialog

Crew Information

Form Factor

Shows crews their personal duty plan in different forms and with various additional features (e.g. EUOPS duty times, iCalendar synchronization, etc.)

Duty Plan Changes

Notifies crews about changes to their duty plan

Check-in/Check-out

Enables crews to electronically check-in and checkout for their duties

Buddies

Allows assigning of other crew members as “buddies”, who can then also see crew members’ information such as their duty plans, etc.

WishesAllows entering of duty wishes (e.g. free days or specific rotations)

Revision confirmation

Makes it possible to check whether revisions of your documents (electronic or also paper documents) have been read by your crews. Portal keeps track of which crew members have confirmed the revisions

Furthersections

Absences to enter vacation and other absence requests

Document Management & Reports

DepartmentProvides the link to a document management system (fine granular access control, full text searching, etc.)

DocumentsMuch-enhanced version of the “Department Info” which provides hierarchical levels of directories anddirect access from the user’s operating system

ReportingAllows the creating of reports based on data located in the databases of the Portal or any other company database (e.g flight-ops or crew database)

Communication

MessagesAllows sending, receiving and searching of airline internalmessages & emails

NewsNotifies crews about changes to their duty plan

ForumProvides typical forum functions, like different discussion

SMS

Allows sending of SMS (Short Message Service) directly to the mobile phones of your crews or to any other telephone number

Who is WhoAllows searching for and managing information about the people in an airline

Furthersections

Surveys to run polls, Quick Links to access other websites, and Alerts to inform about events

Flight Information

FlightBriefing

Contains comprehensive flight briefing information likeNOTAM, flight plan, booking figures, weather charts, company info, A/C-info, etc.

Departure/Arrival

Shows departure and arrival times for all the airline’s flights

User and System administration

Users and Groups

Allows administration of users and groups in a flex ible, role-based approach

System DataMonitors all system components and sends alerts to the system-administrators if necessary (e.g. via email, SMS)

Further sections

Logs and statistics, layout customization, and various functions regarding security

Technical integrationGoDirect Airline Portal is based on modern, platform independent technologies, and can work with a broad choice of operating systems, webservers and databases. This ensures that the GoDirect Airline Portal fits well into your current IT infrastructure and also reduces your vendor dependencies.

GoDirect Airline Portal supports secure SSL based encryption and supports various authentication methods.

The Portal has been in daily use at several customers since 2003 with a total of more than 10’000 users. It has proven to be very reliable and scalable even to large user bases with several thousand crew members.

Operating systems• Linux• HP-UX • Solaris • AIX • Macintosh • MS-Windows

WebserversAny J2EE-compliant webserver like:• Apache Tomcat• Sun Java System• IBM WebSphere• BEA WebLogic• Oracle Application

Server• MS-IIS

DatabasesAny ANSI SQL-92 compliant database like:• Oracle• PostgreSQL• MS-SQL

StandardsComprehensive support for:• J2EE• JSP• JSTL• JSR 168• XML• SSL• CORBA• SOAP etc.

Authentication• Username & Password• Card reader (optional

– on request)

Security• SSL-based encryption• RSA token (optional –

on request)

GoDirect Airline Portal Flight Briefing showing weather part

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“We started with a very small assignment several years ago and since then Honeywell (formerly Aviaso) has implemented numerous projects for our airline and for the Thomas Cook Group. In fact, Honeywell has become our fixed partner for software development, and since we work together, they have never ever let us down.”

“We are an airline operating in the whole of Europe. A web-based solution, allowing fast communication and easy access to important documents, is crucial for us. Honeywell (formerly Aviaso) provides with the Portal a powerful and user-friendly solution. They understand and implement our requirements in a competent, cost-efficient and quick way. Due to the reliable software and good support, we are having a very high availability of our systems.”

“With Honeywell (formerly Aviaso), we have an experienced and flexible partner at our side. They offer various airline solutions, which can be well customized to our needs. Honeywell's expertise and thorough airline knowledge is very helpful in the design, planning, and implementation of our IT projects.”

Alain Goethals, IT Manager Thomas Cook Airlines

Thomas Frischknecht, CEO Belair Airlines (Airberlin group)

Axel Schefe, Flight Operations Condor