TAP expands cooperation with Lufthansa Systems

“Our goal is to differentiate ourselves with quality of service and operational efficiency. Lido/Flight is a powerful and state of the art tool that fully meets our requirements. It provides innovative functionalities to optimize our processes in flight operations and save fuel and costs,” said António Aguiar, Flight Operations Technical Support Director of TAP.

TAP has been using Lido/Flight since September 2006. The industry-leading flight planning solution provides dispatchers with a host of optimization options regarding flight time, fuel consumption or costs of each flight. Drawing on its own database, the integrated solution uses a number of parameters to calculate the optimal route for each flight, which leads to fuel savings of up to five percent. TAP will benefit from additional innovative add-ons of Lido/Flight. While TFR achieves fuel savings by taking the highly complex issue of temporarily restricted airways into account, the IFM module automatically monitors every flight which has been calculated but not yet completed. The system reports all updated airspace restrictions, airport data and weather and automatically suggests alternative routes to the dispatcher if necessary.

“I’m very pleased that TAP decided to further rely on our expertise. The extension of our long-standing cooperation demonstrates the value of Lido/Flight and strengthens its leading position in the market. Around 40 percent of all flights operated by European airlines are planned with our flight planning solution,” comments Stefan Auerbach, Senior Vice President Sales EMEA at Lufthansa Systems.