Oman Air, the national carrier of the Oman, has signed a contract with Flightman, an airline software solutions provider, to install their Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) software across the entire fleet of Airbus, Boeing and Embraer aircraft.

Oman Air selected the suite of Flightman’s EFB software applications to enable the realisation of streamlined operational processes and cost effectiveness across their flight operations, engineering and cabin services. By adopting a flexible architecture, Flightman’s EFB solution will be deployed on pilot issued iPad devices and will provide an extensive suite of applications to Oman Air including the eJourney Log, Electronic Flight Folder, Large Content Manager, eLoadsheet, eReports, Business Intelligence Tool, eTechlog and Passenger Relationship Management.

This state-of-the-art EFB solution shall enable flight crew to conduct their flight briefing, access digital documents (eg Manuals, Standard Operating Procedures etc.), complete electronic reports and record details of a flight, via iPad devices.   

Upon completion of the onsite requirements gathering workshop in Muscat Captain Ali Sulaiman, chief officer flight operations, Oman Air, said: “Having recently launched our efficiency programme, we consider this large scale EFB project with Flightman as an important way of helping Oman Air reduce costs and become a more modern and efficient business-driven enterprise.”

Joe McGoldrick, chief executive officer, Flightman, said: “We are very excited to be working with Oman Air on the delivery of their EFB Solution. Oman Air’s adoption of a process driven approach has allowed them to quantify the realisable benefits achievable via the deployment of the Flightman solution.” – TradeArabia News Service