Running CAE's Flightscape platform (originally Sabre AirCentre; Sabre sold the line to CAE in 2022, and CAE rebranded it to Flightscape in May 2025) at top-tier pricing for an operation that didn't need top-tier scale. Crew bidding ran on a 12-year-old custom tool that nobody at the airline could maintain anymore. FAR 117 enforcement was a weekly Excel macro.
Migrated to AviationAlley over a 9-month rolling cutover. Crew bidding (LINE + PBS), reserve management, trip trading, FAR 117 enforcement, and crew duty board all came online in the same workspace. Sabre kept for reservations + GDS interop.
| Metric | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Crew planning time per bid cycle | 4 weeks | 3 days |
| FAR 117 violations per month | 2.3 avg | 0 |
| Annual ops-software spend | $3.4M | $1.1M |
| POI surveillance prep time | 3 weeks | 2 hours |
"We were paying enterprise-tier prices for software we never used 60% of. Switching to a single-workspace platform let us decommission three other tools and our DOT stopped dreading FAA visits."
— Chief Pilot, regional Part 121 carrier
Four-vendor stack: Flight Schedule Pro for scheduling, EMQS for maintenance, Avinode for charter inbound, QuickBooks for invoicing. Manual reconciliation between every pair. Dispatcher spent half their day moving data between tabs.
Part 142 training centerNSP recurring evaluations tracked on a whiteboard. Training records in five separate Excel files. IACRA submissions were a manual re-type of training records. Two POI surveillance visits in the last 18 months ran 4 weeks each.
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