Flight support provider Universal Weather and Aviation has established a partnership with business aviation software creator Portside to develop a new advanced mission management application for the industry. Seamlessly integrated into Portside’s range of scheduling solutions, it offers a comprehensive set of global mission planning and management capabilities. By enhancing operational efficiencies, it promises to streamline international mission management processes and save time.
The companies have worked together in the past, notably with the integration of Universal's Feasibility-IQ application with Portside’s BART scheduling software and Universal’s trip support data into Portside’s PFM scheduling platform.
Their new application will be available by subscription to international operators doing their own trip planning, and it will become the primary platform used by Universal's trip-support division for managing missions.
Guido Groeschel, Universal’s executive v-p for digital product management, expressed his excitement about collaborating once again with Portside. However, he noted that his company remains agnostic in terms of integration partners and will engage with any digital solution provider its customers prefer.
“We support more international missions than any other provider, so our customers use a variety of different scheduling platforms,” he said. “Our focus continues to be innovation and integration—including making our digital trip planning and feasibility tools accessible to all of the different platforms our customers use.”