Interview with Avi-Sched

Recently, Thirty Thousand Feet interviewed Martin Klutz, the Managing Director of Avi-Sched, a provider of flight operations software:

Thirty Thousand Feet: What kind of customers does Avi-Sched try to target?

Martin Klutz: Avi-Sched is primarily focused on providing Executive Airline Operators and Charter Brokers with tailor made flight ops software solutions.

TTF: When you say "executive airline," what do you mean exactly?

MK: Business airlines and air taxi companies which are focused on providing individual transport services to their customers without fixed schedules.

TTF: How did Avi-Sched come into existence? What is the company history?

MK: Avi-Sched was originally designed for an executive airline and has been constantly developed and improved ever since. Avi-Sched has been used by well-known executive airlines for many years. These years of experience form the kernel of this scheduling system.

TTF: What is the essence of the product you offer? What does it do?

MK: Avi-Sched is the central information center for an airline / broker. Besides it's flight and aircraft scheduling capabilities, it provides the possibility to manage all operation-specific data centrally and easily. (Crew, maintenance schedules, airports, handling agents.) With it's built-in reporting tool you can manage and modify all necessary printouts with Avi-Sched.

TTF: What platform does Avi-Sched run on? Is it hosted by you or does it run on the customer's computer?

MK: You can use Avi-Sched on every 32 Bit Windows platform (Win2000, XP, Vista) and it is designed to run either "stand-alone" (database and application on same machine) or within your network environment in a classic client-server scenario. In both cases the customer has full control over his data because Avi-Sched is hosted locally.

TTF: How do you differentiate Avi-Sched from other companies in the marketplace that offer similar products?

MK: Avi-Sched is 100% adaptable to your requirements. We guarantee that Avi-Sched will fully integrate into your existing corporate structure taking into account your specific requirements. We offer premium technical solutions with contemporary features in a modern and easily understandable design specially tailored to your needs.

TTF: Any future developments you see coming in the flight scheduling industry?

MK: The main challenge for all providers of flight ops software is to offer useful features without becoming overloaded. The key is to keep the process short, simple, and effective. The only way to get this job done well is to be flexible and keep an eye onto the market and on the unique requirements of every single customer. We are in permanent contact with our customers to help them find the most suitable solution for their specific needs.

MK: In the near future we are planing to deploy a new module. It will be a web interface which enables our customers to gain access to their schedules over a secure channel via the Internet from every place of the world.

You'll find the Avi-Sched website at http://www.avisched.com/.