Smart Load - Alaska Airlines Case Study
Check out Alaska Airlines case study of Smart4Aviation's Smart LOAD (written by Brian Watson – Manager Weight and Balance at Alaska Airlines) in the recent AircraftIT eJournal and see how our W&B solution improves the loading process and much more...
Our Smart LOAD (together with integrated Smart COMM system) is the fully automated “Exception Based” Weight & Balance solution which fully automates the entire load planning, monitoring and execution process. Through the union of the Smart LOAD and Smart COMM applications, loading restrictions, irregularity handling, and direct communication are no longer challenges for any Airline.
As the system receives real-time information from the Flight Planning, Passenger Reservation, Check-in Baggage, Cargo, as well as other systems, Smart LOAD automatically performs Weight & Balance calculations which are continually recalculating throughout the loading process. Once achieved certain pre-defined milestones or thresholds the system will re-issue new fuel, loading instructions and/or final load number to the crew.
The solution will ensure the best possible Center of Gravity and the exception based functionality means that the only time that any part of loading process requires manual interaction is when one of the exception rules is broken, If no rules are broken Smart LOAD will complete the entire process from issuing estimated zero fuel weight, fuel to the supplier, loading instructions to the ramp, issue final numbers to the crew plus any other departure messages such as UCM/LDM/CPM.
Our Smart LOAD is currently used by Air Canada, Alaska Airlines, Horizon Air, Martinair and Sky Regional Airline.
