AIMS vs Flightscape Crew Management

AIMS provides airline systems for crew management, operations control, and commercial planning. Crew functions cover manpower planning, pairings, leave, training, assignments, legality checks, and statistics; the eCREW portal gives staff personal and flight information, leave requests, messaging, and duty swaps. Operations Control handles aircraft movement management, maintenance planning, schedule construction, and disruption recovery. Commercial Planning compares schedule scenarios and estimates revenue, cost, and profit. The system processes SITA movement and load messages, ACARS messages, and IATA ASM, SSM, and SSIM data. Airlines can use SaaS hosting on AIMS Cloud at Amazon AWS in Frankfurt, Germany, or install and maintain it in-house. Mobile apps provide access to the AIMS Web Portal, and e-Ops supports mobile operations monitoring. AIMS says it is approved by more than 50 National Civil Aviation Authorities, including EASA and FAA, and holds ISO 27001 Security Standards certification. Pricing is available on request, with crew and aircraft counts requested. Crew Check-In / Check-Out is available only in crew-room PCs through a web browser.

Flightscape Crew Management is CAE’s software for planning and managing flight crews. Its AI and machine learning capabilities support crew scheduling, resource forecasting, safety standards, and recovery when operations are disrupted. Crew Planner optimizes pairings and rosters to improve utilization, distribute duties, reduce manual effort, and follow regulatory and company rules. Crew Manager can repair broken pairings, reassign flights, and simulate plans for forecast disruptions or cancellation packages. Open Time Solver automates daily crew scheduling while accounting for labor and legal policies. Crew Management Training schedules and tracks ground and flight training, recencies, simulator and external training, and qualifications. Crew Access gives pilots and cabin crew real-time roster information in a native Android and iOS app, with chat. The platform is described as serving operators of any size, from business aviation and commercial airlines to eVTOL aircraft. It is available on Android, iOS, and web. CAE was founded in 1947 and is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Pricing is paid and available on request.