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Qatar Airways announced the successful completion and implementation of a new fleet management system called TOPS that allows the airline to optimally schedule aircraft and better manage flights, ultimately driving a more efficient and effective airline for its passengers.
TOPS, which stands for Total OPerations System, integrates data from multiple sources and produces a holistic view of the airline’s operation, from the global scale to the individual flight level, in order to anticipate and notify operations staff of any potential issue and provide solution options. Specific tasks that can now be carried out due to this integration include, but are not limited to: tail assignment optimizer, whereby aircraft are assigned to specific lines of flying with respect to the operational needs of the route, based on the specific aircraft’s capabilities; NOTAM manager, where Notice to Airmen are immediately communicated to the specific dispatchers and operations staff for more perfect situational awareness; and Flight Watch, which consolidates all flight data into a single graphical source for ease of tracking, communicating with and managing the airline’s more than 500 daily flights to more than 150 destinations in six continents.
TOPS’ Flight Watch, launched in 2015, offers operations personnel multiple filters, such as weather patterns, flight path routing, and restricted or prohibited air space so that the team of professionals in the airline’s Integrated Operations Centre have near-perfect awareness of each airborne flight, and the ability to quickly communicate with the flight deck. The airline is also developing a maintenance planning optimizer to help schedule around aircraft scheduled out of service time, which is expected to go live by the end of 2016.
Source: Qatar Airways