Post on 27-Jul-2018
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
Web Browser
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Portal integration layer
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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