Navtech

NAVBLUE
Subsidiary
Industry Aviation
Software
Founded Toronto, Ontario
(1985)
Headquarters Waterloo, Ontario
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
 Fabrice Hamel (President and CEO)
Sean Doherty (Chief Financial Officer)
Kevin Ficco (VP Sales and Marketing)
Number of employees
 300
Parent Airbus
Website navblue.aero

NAVBLUE, formally Navtech, is a Canadian company that specializes in airline operations software.[1][2] They provide products which include solutions for flight planning, aircraft performance, aeronautical charts, crew planning,[3][4] electronic flight bag and navigational data. NAVBLUE is based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada with an additional office in Hersham, United Kingdom and several satellite offices worldwide.

History

In the mid-1980s Ray English, an Air Canada pilot, had the idea of using a computer system to calculate the benefits of tankering fuel. His concept expanded to include a computerized flight planning system. His wife, a self-taught software engineer, and a small staff developed this technology. They began working in their garage in a small town near Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Over the next few years, Navtech acquired several customers. They developed a hosted implementation of computerized flight planning which allowed customers to communicate remotely with Navtech computers to request and generate a flight plan. Navtech merged with Compuflight, a flight operations services provider based in Long Island, New York, in 1994 to expand its flight planning market share and to introduce runway analysis service to its customers.

Navtech further augmented its flight operations service portfolio in 1998 when it acquired the Weather Service Division of Global Weather Dynamics Inc. (GWDI) which was based in Monterey, California. In 1999, Navtech acquired Skyplan's UK division to accelerate its growth in the European market.

In 2001, Navtech acquired Airware Solutions, Inc. and entered the Crew Planning market, providing the industry’s leading Preferential Bidding Solution (Preferential Bidding System). A partnership was created with Parallel Integrated Applications Systems to offer airlines its Pairings Optimizer.

In 2005, Navtech acquired European Aeronautical Group, a group founded by Scandinavian Airlines, British Airways and a number of avionics manufacturers.[5][6]

In 2016, Airbus acquired Navtech and merged it with Airbus LUCEM and Airbus ProSky to form NAVBLUE.[7][8][9]

Products

Navtech Flight Plan, Navtech’s first product, allows airlines to manage the costs associated with flight operations, minimizing spending on fuel consumption, operating costs, and flight time. Navtech has developed two aircraft performance solutions: Navtech TODC, which provides customized take-off and landing performance calculations, and Navtech AODB, which provides airport data used during take-off and landing procedures.

Navtech's aeronautical charting products create aerodrome and enroute navigation charts as well as those used for helicopter operations. Navtech's crew planning software, the Preferential Bidding System builds both flying and reserve schedules with an add-on module for training schedules. Pairing Optimizer is a desktop application which produces crew pairings covering various scheduling periods.

Navtech's software creates and uses large aeronautical and navigational databases for flight management systems and flight simulators, as well as ground positioning systems, aircraft simulators, airspace modelling, and air traffic systems. Electronic flight bag software provides Navtech tools to pilots electronically on a laptop or tablet.[10]

References

  1. ↑ "Research delivers insight into the flight management systems market by aircraft type and region analysis 2021". WahTech Transport Market Research , 07 September 2016 . Rohan Salgarkar
  2. ↑ Management Des Stratégies À Découvrir. CMA Canada. 2006. pp. 3 and 20.
  3. ↑ Cynthia Barnhart; Barry Smith (22 December 2011). Quantitative Problem Solving Methods in the Airline Industry: A Modeling Methodology Handbook. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 279–. ISBN 978-1-4614-1608-1.
  4. ↑ Speednews. Speednews. 1989. p. 138.
  5. ↑ "The SAS Group has agreed with Navtech Inc. to sell its shareholding in European Aeronautical Group". www.sasgroup.net. SAS Group. Retrieved 22 November 2005.
  6. ↑ Hoover's (2008). Hoover's Handbook of World Business. Reference Press. p. 293.
  7. ↑ "Airbus acquires Waterloo-based flight software company Navtech". BetaKit, Jessica Galang, January 7, 2016
  8. ↑ "Airbus Group focuses on 'making it fly'". Skies Magazine, Lisa Gordon
  9. ↑ "Performance-based navigation flight trials advance SESAR RISE project". Intelligent Aerospace. March 11, 2016 By Courtney Howard
  10. ↑ "Navtech Inc. Launches iCharts EFB At the ARINC EFB Users Forum in Memphis". investing.businessweek.com. Bloomberg Business Week. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
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