SD and Universal Package Datalinks and Flight Planning

Satcom Direct (SD) and Universal Weather and Aviation have joined forces to offer customers a combination of their datalink, flight planning and weather services. Operators can now have bundled pricing for SD’s FlightDeck Freedom datalink service and Universal’s flight planning and weather data, which have been integrated through Universal’s uvGO mission planning and management system. The latter is available online or via iPad app and allows operators to handle all aspects of flight planning, including weather data.

FlightDeck Freedom gives users an unlimited, fixed-rate datalink services, with a single contract and a single invoice. Universal is now the preferred trip management provider for SD’s flight deck services.

“Today, the Universal and SD collaboration brings robust capabilities to our customers,” said SD chief strategy officer Scott Hamilton. “In the future there will be a deeper integration allowing us to deliver services that no other trip support provider is offering.”