This airline chose the FLYHT AFIRS solution over traditional ACARS based alternatives due to its cost-effective capital requirements and low operational costs. The airline has unparalleled visibility to its entire fleet including in-flight and at remote bases. The airline has leveraged AFIRS always available satellite-based connectivity in their turn optimization, maintenance and passenger experience initiatives. The result is a streamlined operation that improves reliability and operational efficiency. FLYHT’s key partners that make the solution possible are AWS and Iridium.
Traditional connectivity solutions impose numerous challenges to achieve operational excellence, including network coverage issues, high operational costs, lack of flexibility and excessive equipment weight/footprint. As a low-cost regional carrier, the customer has high single-aisle aircraft utilization, short turn times and remote operations. To meet their regulatory requirements, they need standard SATCOM and aircraft tracking. To meet their business objectives, they need a much richer IoT like platform.
The airline installed FLYHT’s AFIRS 228TM hardware across their fleet. This provides the airline worldwide SATCOM voice connectivity in a form factor ideally suited for regional aircraft. The airborne system has a low drag profile and light weight, a prudent choice for fuel sensitive operations. In addition, the system provides worldwide data connectivity over the Iridium satellite network. Standard AFIRS installations include connectivity to numerous aircraft data busses, providing visibility to engine, hydraulics, cockpit indications, door states and other data sources useful for operations and maintenance.
FLYHT worked with the airline to identity and implement monitoring of hundreds of valuable performance indicators. The airline has real-time visibility to aircraft operations, key turn milestones and unplanned maintenance indicators.
FLYHT’s unique on-wing inference technology helps the airline by keeping customization costs low. Further, by utilizing AWS services, FLYHT can keep the supporting operational costs low and is able to pass these savings on to the customer. FLYHT’s Uptime Cloud ground application is an AWS hosted application utilizing Amazon VPC, Amazon EC2, Amazon Route 53, Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) and Amazon RDS services.
Using FLYHT’s AFIRS and UpTime systems, the airline has real-time visibility to their operations, helping them to foresee and mitigate the negative impacts of irregular operation. The inherently flexible technology platform can accommodate the airlines on-going continuous improvement initiatives. Both maintenance and operations benefit from the real-time visibility of their operations, resulting is significant cost savings across the business.
With AWS services and support, FLYHT can provide robust, innovative and cost-effective solutions for our customers.
This regional Asian airline operates a growing fleet of regional jets including CRJs and A320s. The company has experienced incredibly strong growth and currently operates over 40 aircraft. The airline has embraced the digital transformation through all aspects of their operation.
FLYHT provides airlines with Actionable Intelligence to transform operational insight into immediate, quantifiable action, delivering industry leading solutions to improve aviation safety, efficiency and profitability. This unique capability is driven by FLYHT’s patented aircraft certified hardware products including AFIRS™, a satcom aircraft interface device which enables real-time streaming of flight information, cockpit voice and black box data streaming and TAMDAR™, which aggregates and streams airborne weather data in real-time. FLYHT is headquartered in Calgary, Canada with an office in Littleton, Colorado, and is an AS9100 Quality registered company. For more information, view our latest presentation here
