AIMS has been specifically designed to assist airline management improve operations and services by minimizing overall costs through the more efficient planning, co-ordination and utilization of their crew/aircraft resources, support staff, administration and communications facilities.

AIMS represents an ideal solution for vertical and lateral integration into an existing or planned corporate (IT) organization structure. Therefore, in terms of cost benefits and justification of system acquisition, AIMS should be considered not only for fully meeting the specialist requirements of Flight Operations and Cabin Crew Services Departments, but also in relation to its much wider corporate utilization potential. By incorporating Commercial, Engineering and Freight–Cargo departments etc. as logical extensions of AIMS usage, this allows an airline to share costs and derive benefits throughout many departments.

Identifying the cost benefits of AIMS will vary from airline to airline. These will be influenced by:

·         Type and size of operation and varying growth expansion requirements
·         Existing organization and procedural limitations 
·         National/company regulations and union agreements
·         User/technical (IT) automation policy 
·         Full use of the total design capabilities and potential of the AIMS software 

• Lower cost than renting/leasing

• Low cost hardware requirements and database administration costs

• Low support costs (First 3 months free)

• Quick, low cost training and implementation requirements

• Lower communication costs by fully utilizing Internet capability

Additional real time cost reductions and savings through:   

• Improved User productivity and efficiency/Lower support staff requirements

• Better overall crew utilization to further reduce crew costs

• Better overall aircraft utilization which creates opportunities for more charter flights & income

• Improved on-time performance

• Improved aircraft maintenance planning & minimization of maintenance plan disruptions

• Minimized commercial flight schedule disruption

• Improvements in crew & support staff morale, leading to reduced crew sickness & turnover

• Enhanced customer communication contact

AIMS has only to assist User airlines by improving existing crew utilization and avoid recruiting to begin generating an identifiable savings and return on system investment.  Alternatively, if an airline plans to expand its aircraft fleet and necessary crew establishment requiring a more powerful management tool, its Aircraft Supplier may be willing to include AIMS as an Operational Support Package within the aircraft purchase or lease price.

Since AIMS was first introduced successfully to international airline service in 1983, it has been continuously enhanced as each new airline acquires the system and adapts it to suit its unique needs. This represents an on-going investment of millions of US dollars over a period in excess of 800 man-years.  Airlines reap the benefit from this investment at a fraction of the cost they would otherwise incur through comparable in-house or other third party vendor system development.