Altéa Departure Control - Flight overview

Altéa Departure Control - Flight is a new generation load control (weight and balance) system, successfully launched in 2007 with Qantas and early 2008 with Finnair. Following this successful launch it is to be rapidly rolled out to further airline customers, including South African Airways, Ethiad, Qatar and Conviasa.

Altéa Departure Control - Flight can also be used by ground handlers and airport authorities to manage the load control on behalf of the airlines. In addition, this Amadeus solution can be used by a ground handler to offer a centralised outsourced dispatching service to an airline.

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

Seamless integration with Altéa Departure Control - Customer and the rest of the Amadeus Altéa suite helps decrease turn-times and reduce delays caused by late additions to load, aircraft or late passengers.

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

Graphical user interface

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

Business impact

With Altéa Departure Control - Flight, you can implement the most efficient load control process, while optimising fuel usage and cargo uplift for your airline customers

• Increased productivity

  Massively increase productivity for load controllers with automated flight departure monitoring and business rules

  Handle more flights per controller each shift

• Reduced costs

  Potentially centralise your load control sites

• Increased revenue

  Attract leading airline customers with a sophisticated solution incorporating the latest and most advanced loading algorithms for optimising turn times and fuel costs

  Offer outsourced load control to airlines as a service

• Increased reliability

  Reduce the cost of delays due to unexpected or late changes in load or other contributing factors

Who can use it?

Altéa Departure Control - Flight is available to any airline, airport or ground hander.

Ground Handlers will be able to use Altéa Departure Control Flight to handle weight and balance activities for airlines either as a stand-alone solution or as an integrated package with the rest of the Amadeus Airport IT solutions.

Qantas was the first airline to use Altéa Departure Control - Flight in all its domestic and international airports in mid-2007. Finnair implemented the solution in early 2008 and South African Airways in 2009. Numerous airlines will follow: Mexicana, El Al, Qatar Airways, Conviasa, Saudi Arabian Airlines, British Airways, etc.

Implementation

After extensive testing, Amadeus has successfully completed the first delivery of this solution for our launch partners, Qantas and Finnair.

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

The speed of implementation depends on the number of load control centres and the number of different aircraft to be handled.

Amadeus already has a significant and proven track record in fast and successful DCS implementation.

Why take Altéa Departure Control - Flight?

• Attract more airline customers with an optimised weight and balance solution and flight departure excellence
• Easily centralise load planning operations
• More efficient IT model
• Fast and secure implementation
• Take advantage of perfect integration with Amadeus Altéa Departure Control - Customer and airlines hosted in Amadeus Altéa

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