Types of Planning Softwares

[jetsguy737]

Hey all. So I've grown curious about different flight planning technologies used throughout the industry. By now most of us are familiar with Sabre Dispatch Monitor. There's also DECS code planning, NAVBlue and Flightkeys. What else is out there at the carriers? Be interesting to see how many different programs are utilized.

 

[FlyinRyan92]

Lido

 

[flynryan692]

Sabre has Flight Plan Manager out now. There were plans in place to sunset DM, not sure how those were affected by COVID but it shouldn't be long before its gone. Beyond that I think the main ones are listed here, and some airlines have a proprietary system.

 

[Atc89]

Hey all. So I've grown curious about different flight planning technologies used throughout the industry. By now most of us are familiar with Sabre Dispatch Monitor. There's also DECS code planning, NAVBlue and Flightkeys. What else is out there at the carriers? Be interesting to see how many different programs are utilized.

LIDO now. 2 different Jeppesen products at the old job. OpsControl, then JetPlanner.

 

[kacampbell]

Sabre OCC products just got aquired by CAE so not sure how that will affect the sunset of DM. Cant imagine CAE would want to take the old products with them.

 

[F9DXER]

I've worked with 5 different flight planning systems. They each have their pros and cons.

Whichever company wants to try a design a better one, I hope they at least talk to the end user(s) on what they want and would like