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AERONAUTICAL
INSTRUMENTATIONCommsoft is delighted
to announce that Africa
World Airlines (AWA),
a new Ghanaian airline
headquartered in Accra, has
selected OASES to support its
fleet of six Embraer EMB-145
aircraft. This is the thirteenth
new OASES contract signed in
the first half of 2017, covering
the aviation engineering
activities of fifteen direct
customers in twelve different
countries – and further
strengthens Commsoft’s
footprint in Africa.Communications Software's OASES
(Open Aviation Strategic Engineering
System) is amongst the most successful
aviation engineering and maintenance
systems in the world. A ‘best of
breed’ MRO IT system, designed by
engineers for engineers, OASES is
easy to use whilst being functionally
highly sophisticated. It is structured in a
modular format to allow for scalability
and AWA has chosen the Core,
Airworthiness, Planning, Materials,
Line Maintenance Control, Production,
Commercial and Warranty modules.
AWA has its main hub at Kotoka
International Airport and operates
scheduled flights from Accra to Kumasi,
Takoradi and Tamale in Ghana and
international services to Lagos and
Abuja in neighbouring Nigeria. The
airline also offers charter services and
plans to operate additional scheduled
flights along the west coast of Africa
and then to other regions of the
continent and other continents.
Patrick Akowuah of Africa
World Airline Engineering
Department, commented:
“We selected OASES because of
its user-friendly interface and flexibility
to easily define and map internal
engineering processes unto OASES.
The software is proactively adaptable,
ever evolving based on needs orEvery day, over 100 000 people
suffer from flight delays,
cancellations, overbookings,
baggage mix-ups and other
exhausting challenges caused
by airlines. Stranded travellers
wait hours for disrupted
flights or any explanation
from carrier employees, which
naturally turns into anxiety,
uncertainty and eventually- anger. According to IATA,
there were nearly 11 000 air rage
incidents during 2015. While
companies hold passengers
hostage to the unknown,
airports’ staff is left in solitary
to confront the rising fury.
Even though experts say there are
clear signs and an obvious reason why
airlines are trying to keep publicity
about annoyed passengers to a
minimum, frequent incidents coupled
with today’s technologies is a tough
combo to manage. In fact, based onrequirements by numerous users.”
Nick Godwin, Commsoft’s
Managing Director, added;
“In terms of international airline
traffic, Africa is the second-fastest-
growing region in the world and this
contract win is a further example of
the demand for OASES across Africa.
Africa is becoming an importantMRO hub and Commsoft continues
to see growth in this region.”
The OASES software solution
is available either to be installed on-
site on a local hardware server, or
it can be accessed via the internet
through OASES cloud hosting
service, which avoids the need to
install any additional hardware. •CAA analysis, from 2013 to 2015 air
rage incidents have quadrupled and has
been on a rise ever since. A few months
back, Spirit Airlines caused chaos at
Fort-Lauderdale Airport when 9 flights
were cancelled. Videos show security
wrestling with unruly passengers as they
threw random punches at the officers.
And as it seems, airports are
more ready to help the “stuck”
passengers than the origin of the
problem – the airlines. In a recent
AeroTime article, airport representatives
from across the EU expressed their
disappointment in lack of action
from carriers, however, it ensured its
readiness to lend a helping hand.
AeroTime quotes Phillip Bircher,
head of Zurich airport corporate
communications, saying, “airlines are
primarily responsible for such casesAirlines’ silence – a threat to
airport security
Marius Stonkus, CEO of SKYCOP