Oman Air announces fuel efficiency, MRO software implementations

Source: Oman Air.

Oman Air has selected OpenAirlines-Skybreathe to provide its cloud-based fuel efficiency software solution. OpenAirlines-Skybreathe will provide both predictive and post-flight analysis by consolidating multiple data sources to identify and realise opportunities for fuel savings and track implementation success. The software will also cover the airline’s requirements for compliance with the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme.

Deployment of the software is in progress as of mid-July, and is expected to be fully operational by end-September 2016. Besides over 100 key performance indicators (KPIs) that are currently configured in the software, Oman Air’s fuel management team has identified several of its own fuel efficiency measures, which will be included in the deployment of the software. The OpenAirlines software will support the airline in monitoring and reporting fuel efficiencies as well as significantly boost compliance.

Captain Ali Sulaiman, EVP and COO, Oman Air said: "Oman Air is committed to deploying several of the airline’s known best practices across the airline's lines of business including flight operations, flight dispatch, maintenance and engineering and leveraging the software capability and future developments to consistently deliver fuel efficient operations in the years to come. Oman Air continues to invest in several frontline operational systems and this additional efficiency layer that OpenAirlines introduces to integrate the multiplicity of our operational systems is an important milestone in this enhancement.

"A unique feature is an electronic flight bag (EFB) integration to the pilot module MyFuelCoach. Managing and optimising fuel costs which remain well over 20% of the airline’s operating expenses is a critical business strategy and we are excited to collaborate closely with OpenAirlines in order to realise these fuel savings as well as coping the terabytes of data that we are now seeing streaming down from our airplanes.”

Alexandre Feray, CEO of OpenAirlines commented: “The adaptability and customisation features that can be offered to Oman Air as a cloud-based system and advanced opportunity analysis techniques are an ideal fit to meet the airline growing needs. Our ability to integrate a varied number of airline host systems in fuel invoicing, Finance, IT and Flight Dispatch will allow for an early return on investment and the capability of sustaining the rapid growth of the airline.”

The fuel efficiency software from OpenAirlines includes multiple user dashboards and business intelligence tools. Proprietary algorithms that generate opportunity analysis allows the airline to identify the savings potential and business intelligence dashboards and reports that allow procedure (standard operating practices) compliance. The software also offers a variety of dashboards and reports to a diverse group of users, right from identifying, tracking and reporting on all areas of fuel savings as also ensuring full compliance with the EU Emissions trading legislation.

Oman Air further announced that it successfully went live with a maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) software solution in early July. Developed and distributed by Swiss Aviation Software (AS), a 100% subsidiary of Swiss International Air Lines, AMOS has more than 140 customers worldwide.

Oman Air will leverage AMOS to sustain and extend its competitive advantage, reduce costs and improve its operational efficiency and effectiveness of the engineering division. Since March 2016 the entire Oman Air fleet has been managed in AMOS.

Ali Redha Al Lawatiya, Oman Air’s Executive Vice President – Engineering and Maintenance, commented: “This is a long-term and strategic partnership that will allow Oman Air to harness the latest technology as we deliver our award-winning services. The new technology solution equips our Engineering & Maintenance department to provide high-end services to Oman Air as well as to our other airline customers. Both Swiss-AS and Exsyn have partnered effectively in the deployment of the solution. With the complete fleet data now in AMOS, Oman Air will now leverage its internal capability to rollout an effective decision-making technology platform.

Fabiano Faccoli, VP, Customer Services at Swiss-AS, added: “Now that the AMOS implementation has been successfully completed, Oman Air Engineering & Maintenance Division is equipped with a state-of-the-art MRO software solution which helps them to provide services to the Oman Air fleet and third-party customers in a highly professional and efficient way while allowing them at the same time to introduce new technologies in their maintenance environment. A key success factor was to onboard EXSYN for the data migration work stream and the good collaboration throughout the project ultimately ensured project success.”

In addition to the standard AMOS support/maintenance services provided by Swiss-AS, Oman Air has signed on for Swiss-AS’ AMOS Operation Services (AOS).  The Swiss-AS AOS team will support Oman Air regarding the operation of the application and database server.

The cooperation between Oman Air and EXSYN consisted in supporting Oman Air in migrating the fleet data into AMOS including the data of the newly-arrived B787 fleet while using EXSYN’s data migration solution, TITAN. Along this process EXSYN helped Oman Air with an inventory audit to make sure that this data was ready for transfer.

Sander de Bree, CEO at EXSYN, stated: “It is crucial for an airline to apply to all airworthiness requirements. This can only be achieved with the combination of the right system on one side and data that reflects the right airworthiness status on the other side. We are glad that Oman Air now operates on the recognised AMOS system and that we have been able to successfully transfer their fleet data into AMOS using our data migration solution Titan.”