DALLAS, November 9, 2023- Southwest Airways, the biggest U.S. airline when it comes to home passengers, has chosen AvioBook, a Thales Group Firm, to equip its fleet with an industry-leading know-how portfolio. Supported by AvioBook, Southwest goals to additional optimize operations with environmentally sustainable options.
The service’s multi-year contract with AvioBook offers Southwest with probably the most modern know-how platform in the marketplace. The deal contains the one fully-integrated Digital Flight Bag (EFB) and Digital Logbook (eLB) answer in the marketplace to enhance effectivity all through the operation. Southwest has additionally signed an settlement to equip the world’s largest all Boeing 737 NG fleet with AvioBook’s Plane Interface System (AID), often called AvioCast. As soon as put in, it’ll present actual time plane information to numerous operational teams. AvioBook’s complete suite of software program and {hardware} is designed to additional mitigate security dangers, improve compliance, add know-how redundancy and resiliency, and improve environmental sustainability, all whereas enabling shorter flip occasions.
Southwest has lengthy been a trailblazer in incorporating digital applied sciences to enhance the Worker and Buyer expertise. The AvioBook suite will assist remove the 88 million pages of paper nonetheless being printed yearly and can give customers the boldness of getting the most recent data at their fingertips, with information up to date as and when the state of affairs adjustments.
AvioBook’s FAA-approved answer is constructed on user-centric product design in addition to sturdy and dependable integrations that means pilots can simply discover the knowledge they want, once they want it. To make sure full person engagement, implementation can be gradual with the primary advantages of the venture anticipated to be seen in 2024.
With Southwest as a part of the client group, AvioBook strengthens its management place within the EFB market dealing with a fleet of over 4,000 tails and 100,000 flights per week.
“Southwest is thrilled to collaborate with AvioBook to modernize our operation and introduce cutting-edge know-how options straight benefiting our frontline Workers. These developments not solely streamline processes but additionally remove quite a few paper-based paperwork. This shift empowers our Workers to dedicate extra time and give attention to delivering Southwest Hospitality to our valued Prospects.” Steve Christl, Vice President Ops Technique & Implementation, Southwest Airways
“Having the ability to help Southwest’s digital transformation is a good supply of delight for everybody at AvioBook. We stay up for serving to deliver collectively all Southwest stakeholders from throughout the airline, bettering communications and workflows whereas eliminating paper.” Frédéric Dru, AvioBook CEO
