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Lufthansa Systems flight planning and navigation for flydubai

September 24, 2009

flydubai has signed a five-year agreement with Lufthansa Systems for a comprehensive package of airline operations IT solutions.

Since the start of its operations, the carrier has been optimising its flight planning and dispatch processes with Lido/Flight, formerly known as Lido OC. It also uses Lufthansa Systems’ navigation solutions Lido FMS and Lido RouteManual. To begin with flydubai was using paper versions of the Lido RouteManual navigation charts before migrating to Lufthansa Systems’ visually identical interactive electronic charts, Lido eRouteManual.

Ghaith Al Ghaith, CEO of flydubai, commented, “flydubai is constantly looking for ways to make travel a little less complex, a little less stressful and a little less expensive. As this business model requires highly efficient processes, we selected IT solutions from Lufthansa Systems to optimise our flight planning and reduce operating costs. In addition, with Lido RouteManual we have completed the first step on the way to adopting a paperless cockpit, which will also result in further cost reductions.”