Amadeus SKY Suite

By Optym
Taking your airline network
profitability to the MAX
 The SKY Suite includes:
Amadeus SkyMAX By Optym for schedule optimisation

Amadeus SkySYM By Optym for schedule simulation

Amadeus SkyCAST By Optym for schedule forecasting

Amadeus SkyPLAN By Optym for route frequency optimisation

Amadeus SkyWORKS By Optym for schedule editing and management

Amadeus Sky Suite
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The Integrated Network Planning System
Deciding when and where to fly determines the profitability and success of any airline. Yet
network planning and scheduling, regardless of the airline’s size or type, is a very complex
task. You need to simultaneously optimise multiple objectives: profitability and operational
performance across, potentially, thousands of flights. And you need to do this in a way that
optimises the entire network, while also keeping an eye on the competition. Due to the
complexity involved in developing flight schedules, however, airline planners often have to
focus on individual flights, which can create missed optimisation opportunities across the
entire network.

The Amadeus SKY Suite By Optym is an integrated schedule development platform, including
breakthrough capabilities for schedule optimisation, fleet optimisation, demand forecasting,
schedule reliability, and route frequency planning that can help airlines unlock tens to
hundreds of millions of dollars annually in additional profits from their flight schedules.

Key benefits for airlines from the Amadeus SKY

Suite By Optym include:

A new way to develop optimal
flight schedules. Clean-sheet
scheduling allows airlines to
build optimal schedules from
scratch without the limitations
of previous schedules.
Maximised network profitability
by solving flight timing optimisa-
tion and fleet optimisation simul-
taneously, based on more accu-
rate demand forecasting.
Superior strategic planning and
flexibility, allowing for the evalu-
ation of multiple what-if scenar-
ios in hours, not days or weeks.

Faster production of schedules,
providing planners with more
time to focus on enhancing prof-
itability and efficiency, instead
of concentrating on just building
feasible schedules.
Enhanced schedule quality and
consistency through an intelligent
schedule editor that auto-cor-
rects scheduling problems.
Greater schedule reliability and
operational performance; sched-
ules are not only more profitable,
but are also more robust to re-
al-world disruptions..
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Flight Schedule Optimisation System
Amadeus SkyMAX By Optym determines the best times for each flight to trade-off non-stop
and connecting revenue, matches the right fleet capacity with demand to minimise spill
across the entire network, and honors multiple operational constraints to generate a flyable
schedule. SkyMAX’s revolutionary clean-sheet scheduling can increase revenue of an airline
by as much as 3% .

Key Features:
Multiple Optimisation Modes: SkyMAX’s optimisation
modes allow network planners to perform a variety of what-
if scenarios and customise schedules to fit each airline’s
unique objectives.
Evaluation Mode: Given a flight schedule, SkyMAX
generates itineraries, calculates passenger flows, and
calculates all financial key performance indicators
(KPIs).

Clean-Sheet Scheduling Mode: SkyMAX is the Automatic Correction of Constraint Rules:

first software solution that offers clean-sheet scheduling,
automatically building a schedule from scratch. The system
optimises flight departure times, fleet type assignments,
and aircraft routings simultaneously – a task once thought
impossible.
Improvement Mode: SkyMAX can also improve upon
an existing flight schedule’s profitability while satisfying all
operational constraints.
Unlike other optimisers, SkyMAX has the ability to both
detect infeasibilities and automatically adjust the input
constraints to resolve these infeasibilities.
Advanced User Experience: SkyMAX is a multi-
user, multi-scenario system that facilitates real-time
decision-making, enabling users to monitor various
optimisation jobs from different perspectives and
analyse them using tables, charts, maps, and route
views.
Key Maximised Profitability:
SkyMAX balances network profitability and operational
Benefits constraints to find the best times and allocate the right
aircraft to each flight in the schedule, unlocking tens to
hundreds of millions of dollars in extra revenue.

Improved Aircraft Utilisation:

Planners can develop more effective schedules that increase
aircraft utilisation by simultaneously adding a combination
of fleeting and timing changes to the schedule.

Faster Schedule Generation:

The system automatically builds flight schedules that
satisfy all operational constraints so that manual effort is
minimised.
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Flight Schedule Simulation System
Amadeus SkySYM By Optym measures the operational performance of flight schedules in
terms of on-time arrivals, schedule recoverability, and passenger connections. The system
is a highly accurate testing lab to evaluate the reliability of proposed future flight schedules
before they are implemented. SkySYM’s simulations achieve over 95% accuracy in modeling
most KPIs.

Key Features
Hot Spot Detection: SkySYM’s hot spot detection feature
helps determine the root causes of flight delays, identifying flights
Key Benefits
that cause cascading delays and aircraft routes that are prone to
frequent delays. The system provides recommendations for schedule
improvements by adding slack where it is needed most.
Automatic Model Calibration: A simulation system
typically requires business parameters, updated manually by the
user, to keep the system calibrated. SkySYM receives periodic data
feeds from an airline’s databases and updates these parameters
automatically, eliminating the manual task of rebuilding the model.
Advanced User Experience: Built with collaboration and
maximised efficiency in mind, SkySYM is a multi-user, multi-scenario
system that facilitates cooperative decision-making: analysing
data inputs, running simulations, and disseminating solutions from
different perspectives. operational constraints so that manual effort is
minimised.
Greater Customer Satisfaction:
More robust schedules will result in fewer
flight delays, fewer passengers missing their
connections, fewer baggage delays, and
overall greater customer satisfaction.
Improve On-Time Performance:
The system gives weight to both profitability
and reliability objectives while evaluating
schedules to generate flight patterns with
better on-time performances.
Reduce Operational Costs:
Airlines spend hundreds of millions of dollars
over and above their planned costs due to
various unplanned disruptions. SkySYM’s robust
scheduling system will reduce disruptions, along
with their associated costs.
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Network Planning Forecasting System

Amadeus SkyCAST By Optym uses advanced mathematical techniques to simulate passenger
choice behavior and revenue management effects to calculate market shares, passenger
traffic, passenger revenue, and detailed flight costs to forecast total network profitability
of proposed schedules. It is a network planning system including new destinations, flight
timings, hub structures, alliances, code-shares, and competitive responses.

Key Features
Advanced Forecasting Models: SkyCAST’s models
consider passenger preference factors such as time of day, service
Key Benefits
type, airport preference, carrier preference, and other variables. The
system’s traffic model converts forecasted demand of each itinerary
into expected traffic, considering spill and recapture effects. New-
generation features include cabin-level forecasting with up-sell,
multi-airport city forecasting, market stimulation, change-based
demand forecasting, and capacity-plan demand forecasting.
Accuracy and Calibration Tool: SkyCAST automatically
runs forecasts on previous years’ schedules (back-cast) and
compares results with historical traffic data to determine detailed
forecasting accuracy measurements and adjustments at the system,
market, and flight levels.
Advanced User Experience: SkyCAST allows users
to add, remove, and modify forecast input data to easily create
different what-if scenarios; the system also provides batch
editing to accommodate multiple edits on large amounts of data
simultaneously. The SkyCAST versioning system tracks and maintains
all changes in the input data for each scenario. SkyCAST provides
users with the capability of analysing and comparing the results
of one or more forecast outputs directly from the client application
using pivot tables.
Enhanced Network Profitability:
SkyCAST’s accurate forecasts for passenger
demand, revenue, and costs enable better
decision-making and provide more business
insights, resulting in increased network
profitability.
Improved Strategic Planning:
SkyCAST supports a consistent and objective
evaluation of multiple what-if scenarios in
hours, not days or weeks, and without needing
extensive manual calibration.
Improved Transparency:
Current forecasting systems are too complex,
and are hard to use. SkyCAST provides different
workspaces for basic and advanced users.
Results of forecasts are available for easy
analysis at flight, station, and market levels,
and pinpointing the changes in the network.
The end result is an advanced forecasting
system that is also easy to use.
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Frequency Plan Optimisation System
Amadeus SkyPLAN By Optym decides how many frequencies to fly in each market to
maximise its total expected revenue function, subject to its aircraft count. The revenue
function is derived by estimating revenue for each origin-destination market, and then
adding up the estimates. The revenue estimate in a specific origin-destination market is a
multiplicative combination of three effects: market share, market size, and average revenue.

Key Features
Superior Optimisation Model: SkyPLAN uses a
combination of proprietary algorithms and mathematical functions Key Benefits
to calculate both nonstop frequencies and resulting connecting
itineraries to maximise network revenue. Maximise Network Revenue:
Determine the optimal frequency and capacity
Sensitivity Analysis: SkyPLAN provides users with the ability plan to maximise network revenue by
to vary input assumptions and understand impact on results. identifying the ideal number of non-stop flights
for every market.
Advanced User Experience: SkyPLAN manages all the
optimisation model’s required data, such as the list of cities to be
considered, market sizes, average revenue per passenger, block Consistent Strategic Planning:
times, average aircraft capacity, and other variables constraining the SkyPLAN provides a systematic and objective
allowable frequency in each market. SkyPLAN’s users can change approach to determine your airline’s frequency
numerous scenario assumptions and store the results for future plan. The frequency plan drives the revenue
reference. potential of any airline.

Seamless Integration:
The output of SkyPLAN (a frequency plan)
becomes one of the critical inputs for SkyMAX,
thus applying the same business assumptions
across both optimisation systems in the SKY
Suite, minimising any revenue leakage, and
further extending clean-sheet scheduling.
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Flight Schedule Development Platform

Amadeus SkyWORKS By Optym provides fast, easy editing of flight schedule data, enabling
large scale or single day changes, depending on the type of scheduling changes needed. The
SkyWORKS planning system provides numerous schedule alternatives to evaluate different
business scenarios, and offers a central repository for all schedule-related information.

Key Features

Efficient Data Management:

SkyWORKS supports all the required scheduling data to develop flight
schedules, and provides users with the capability to create, edit, save, Key Benefits
copy, delete, import, export, compare and merge flight schedules all
in near real-time.
Better Flight Schedules: Integrated
platform to view and evaluate flight schedules
Faster Schedule Development: via multiple graphical displays, used together
SkyWORKS provides users with the ability to view and update a to give a complete schedule representation,
flight schedule, evaluate the schedule against operational rules, and resulting in higher network profitability.
generate aircraft routings. Multiple views show schedule data from
different perspectives, and all displays can be used to edit schedules.
Increased Efficiency: Make structured,
fast and accurate decisions with multiple users
working on same schedule.
Intelligent Decision Automation:
SkyWORKS automatically identifies swap opportunities to fix
common scheduling problems including minimum ground times, out
of balance problems, gate violations, maintenance requirements,
and extra aircraft. SkyWORKS also stores and calculates changes in
Superior Planning and Flexibility:
Many scheduling what-if alternatives are created
passenger connections.
and evaluated, so more scenarios can be
analysed.
Amadeus SkyMAX
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Flight Schedule
Optimization System
SkyMAX determines the best
times for each flight, matches
each flight with an optimal fleet
type to minimise spill, and
honors various constraints to
generate an implementable
schedule.
Amadeus SkySYM
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Flight Schedule
Simulation System
SkySYM tests a schedule’s
robustness against real-world
disruptions and operational
constraints. The system acts as
a highly accurate testing lab to
evaluate the reliability of flight
schedules before they are
implemented; its simulations
achieve over 95% accuracy in
modeling most KPIs.
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Amadeus SkyPLAN
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Frequency Plan
Optimisation System
SkyPLAN determines the
optimal routes of an airline
consistent with its maximum
revenue. SkyPLAN will produce
results specifically
customised to each airline’s
unique objectives. The
system’s output can then be
used on a stand-alone basis,
or serve as input for SkyMAX.
Amadeus SkyCAST
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Network Planning
Forecasting System
SkyCAST is a system that
forecasts total network
profitability and evaluates
proposed flight schedules. By
simulating passenger choice
behavior, SkyCAST explores
what-if scenarios
including new destinations, flight
timings, hub structures, alliances,
code-shares, and competitive
responses.
Amadeus SkyWORKS
By Optym
Flight Schedule
Development Platform
SkyWORKS allows users to view,
develop, and edit flight schedules
in an intuitive manner. SkyWORKS
enables large scale or single day
changes, depending on the
airline’s needs. The system
provides numerous schedule
alternatives to
business scenarios
central repository for all
schedule-related information.
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