Flybe, Europe's largest regional airline, has renewed its contract for cloud-based SafeyNet safety reporting and management services with north Bristol-based Vistair. It has also extended the contract to include Vistair’s electronic manuals service, iPad service, and Touch Notices system. Vistair’s cloud-based services will replace in-house operations at Flybe which operates 67 Bombardier Dash-8 Q-400 and Embraer aircraft.
Vistair, whose head office is in Bradley Stoke, has an impressive customer list. Other clients include easyJet, Thomas Cook Group airlines, Aer Lingus, Flydubai, the RAF, Royal Navy and the British Army as well as Ryanair, Jet2 and Netjets. It has a global logistics centre at Heathrow and offices at airports in Glasgow, East Midlands, Manchester and Germany.
Flybe’s director of flight operations, Ian Baston said: “Our experience over recent years, in using Vistair’s SafetyNet service, has boosted our safety compliance and reduced our costs whilst allowing the airline to maintain safety oversight of our growing operation. Recently, we have been evaluating the market for further Electronic Flight Bag Applications and our analysis of Vistair’s other cloud-based services has convinced us that using combined developmental processes will improve our compliance and cut costs as we move towards the goal of a paperless cockpit for all our operations. The proactive approach that we have seen from Vistair during our previous work gives us confidence that we can realise our joint requirements.”
Vistair’s founding managing director, Ian Herbert, said: “Flybe has always been a visionary airline and was one of the ‘early adopters’ for our SafetyNet safety management service, and has now decided to expand our relationship to look after their technical manuals, provide an EFB solution in the shape of the iPad, and the “Touch” notices service. This extension of our role with Flybe will use state of the art technology to deliver a more reliable and paper-free service.”
Pictured: Flybe’s Director of Flight Operations, Ian Baston (left) with Ian Herbert, Managing Director of Vistair.
