Altéa Departure Control – Flight Management

Altéa Departure Control – Flight Management Achieve excellence for every flight departure

Altéa Departure Control – Flight Management overview

In the last few years, Altéa Departure Control (DC) - Flight Management, our aircraft weight and balance solution, has been chosen by nearly 80 airlines. Qantas, in 2007, and Finnair in early 2008 were the first airlines to implement the solution. In 2009, South African Airways, El Al and Icelandair did their cutover to Altéa DC FM. TAM, SATA Group and Royal Air Maroc, among others, implemented the solution in 2010.

With a detailed event-based activity plan at the heart of the system, and fully graphical interface, Altéa Departure Control – Flight Management improves the productivity of your aircraft load controllers and enables you to centralise operations in one place across time zones.

Seamless integration with Altéa Departure Control – Customer Management and Altéa Inventory for example, helps reduce delays caused by late changes of schedules and passenger loads.

Altéa Departure Control – Flight Management analyses the passenger and cargo load more precisely and automatically defines the optimal aircraft load distribution so that the fuel required for each flight departure is always at the optimum level.

Main Altéa Departure Control – Flight Management features

Flight activity plan
  • Very flexible flight activity plan, customisable down to flight level, aircraft type etc.
  • Scheduled activities initiated automatically
Flight departure monitoring
  • Graphical user interface enables supervision of multiple flights on the same screen
  • Automated alerts if any activity needs attention
Load distribution & balance
  • Detailed allocation of passenger weight, improving capacity and trim management
  • Automated and optimised aircraft load distribution
  • Graphical user interface for easy handling
  • Graphical LIR (Load Instruction Report) sent to ramp
  • All activities can be fully automated
  • Apply operating carriers preferences and processes into the Ground Handling environment
Staff Management
  • Powerful tools to support shift management, load controller licensing and recency, dangerous goods certification etc.
Ground Handling Management
  • Airlines or ground handlers can handle any carrier (Altéa or Non-Altéa )
  • A unique User Interface to manage all flights from all handled airlines
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Graphical user interface

Altéa Departure Control – Flight Management is accessed via a graphical user interface designed around airline workflows to increase efficiency and facilitate user proficiency.

Flight activity plan

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Flight activity plan

Detailed activity plan and flight information tailored for each aircraft load controller's daily flight allocations

Load distribution

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Load distribution

Automated load functionality with one-click or drag-and-drop functionality to allocate load manually; it also allows immediate view of the aircraft trim

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Business impact

With Altéa Departure Control – Flight Management, you can implement the most efficient aircraft load control process, while optimising fuel usage and cargo uplift.

  • Increased productivity

    Significantly increase productivity for load controllers with automated flight departure monitoring and business rules
    Manage all handled airline flights with the same fully graphical application and easily switch between flights of multiple carriers in one single view

  • Reduced costs

    Centralise your load control sites and reduce fuel costs through improved capacity management and optimised aircraft trim

  • Increased revenue

    Gain load capacity for freight thanks to optimised weight and balance

  • Increased reliability

    Reduce the cost of delays caused by unexpected or late changes and achieve flight departures excellence and fast turnaround

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Who can use it?

All airlines can implement Altéa Departure Control – Flight Management with or without other Altéa Solutions.

However, airlines using Altéa Departure Control – Customer Management and Altéa Inventory benefit from more integrated data flows (seat maps, passenger load etc).

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Implementation

We shall work with you to define the best strategy for rolling out Altéa Departure Control - Flight Management to your airport stations while ensuring perfect service continuity.

The speed of implementation depends on the number of load control centres. However, it typically takes between 1 and 3 months depending on the size of fleet and number of users.

The implementation is further facilitated in the case of airlines already using Altéa Inventory and/or Altéa Departure Control – Customer Management.

In February 2011, more than 30 airlines have already implemented our Altéa DC FM solution.

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Why take Altéa Departure Control – Flight Management?

  • Optimise the aircraft weight and balance for every flight
  • Achieve flight departure excellence and fast turnaround
  • Easily centralise load planning operations
  • More efficient IT model
  • Fast and secure implementation
  • Take advantage of perfect integration with Altéa Reservation, Altéa Inventory and Altéa Departure Control – Customer Management
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