Flight Operations ManagementPurpose
1.2. Minimize manual data entry, reduce human error, and provide near real-time visibility of flight activities for airline operations teams, dispatch, and management.
1.3. Facilitate seamless transmission of flight data between aircraft, maintenance, crew management, regulatory, and analytics platforms for effective, data-driven decision-making.
Trigger Conditions
2.2. Scheduled synchronization interval (e.g., every 30 minutes).
2.3. Flight status update received from operational control center.
2.4. API webhook from aircraft telemetry provider.
2.5. Manual trigger by authorized staff for immediate sync.
Platform Variants
• Feature: REST API / Flight Event Feed
• Setting: Configure "flightLog.update" webhook for outbound notifications of updated flight logs.
3.2. Sabre AirCentre Movement Control
• Feature: SOAP API – FlightUpdateNotification
• Setting: Monitor “FlightLogsChanged” operation for new/changed logs, configure endpoint.
3.3. IBM Maximo
• Feature: Integration framework / REST API
• Setting: Setup object structure for "flightlog_sync", consume POST request to insert flight log.
3.4. AMOS (Swiss-AS)
• Feature: Web Services/REST API
• Setting: "FlightLogbook" resource endpoint, POST new log entries.
3.5. Lufthansa Systems NetLine/Ops++
• Feature: Event API
• Setting: Enable “onFlightLogChanged” subscription, specify consumer URL.
3.6. Avanade Cloud for Airlines
• Feature: Azure Logic Apps Connector
• Setting: Connect to "Flight Records API", monitor "newLog" events.
3.7. Airbus Skywise
• Feature: Data Ingestion API
• Setting: Configure "pushFlightLog" endpoint with required schema mapping.
3.8. Boeing ForeFlight Dispatch
• Feature: Flight Log Export API
• Setting: Enable “auto-export” to HTTP endpoint, receive JSON log data.
3.9. Jeppesen Crew Tracking
• Feature: REST API
• Setting: POST flight log data to “/flightlogs” with crew assignments.
3.10. Oracle Aviation Data Hub
• Feature: Data Import REST Service
• Setting: Use "ImportFlightLog" function, schedule data pushes.
3.11. SAP Business One for Airlines
• Feature: OData Service
• Setting: POST log entry to “FlightLogSet” endpoint.
3.12. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Field Service
• Feature: Power Automate Connector
• Setting: Use "Create record" on “FlightLog” entity upon trigger.
3.13. AWS Lambda
• Feature: API Gateway integration
• Setting: Ingest POSTed logs from various systems, validate and transform.
3.14. Google Cloud Functions
• Feature: HTTP Trigger
• Setting: Listen for new log payloads, write to BigQuery or Firestore.
3.15. Honeywell Forge Flight Efficiency
• Feature: Secure Data Export API
• Setting: Schedule flight log export, push to configured endpoint.
3.16. GE Aviation Digital Flight Operations
• Feature: Data Event Stream
• Setting: Consume “FlightLogAvailable” event, process payload.
3.17. Comply365
• Feature: Document Flow API
• Setting: POST updated flight log PDFs or XML to enterprise DMS.
3.18. Mxi Technologies Maintenix
• Feature: Integration API
• Setting: PUT new log entries to “/integration/flightLogbook/entry”.
3.19. Rockwell Collins ARINC Hermes
• Feature: Data Feed (SFTP/API)
• Setting: Poll for new flight log files and ingest.
3.20. OpenAirlines SkyBreathe
• Feature: Flight Data Import API
• Setting: POST logs as JSON via “/api/flightlogs/upload”.
3.21. FlightAware Firehose
• Feature: Streaming JSON Data API
• Setting: Subscribe to "flight_completion" events and capture full log.
Benefits
4.2. Improves data accuracy, reduces risk of manual entry errors and duplicate logs.
4.3. Enhances situational awareness for operations control and flight support departments.
4.4. Speeds up downstream processes (maintenance, crew scheduling, performance analytics) via up-to-date data access.
4.5. Supports regulatory and internal reporting with complete, real-time log availability.