Japan Airlines (JAL) has signed a contract to migrate NetLine/Ops ++ MaintenanceControl to Lufthansa Systems’ Global Aviation Cloud (GAC).

Once migrated, JAL will receive maintenance of the GAC for five years.

NetLine/Ops has been providing support for JAL’s flight operations and maintenance since 2006.

NetLine/Ops ++ MaintenanceControl gives support for tail assignment and maintenance planning and control.

Creating a link between NetLine/Ops ++ and different maintenance and engineering systems, it ensures that the person responsible for operations, the maintenance planner and technician have constant access to the aircraft’s current performance data and receive decision-making support.

For the efficient and economic controlling of a flight, operations control requires not only an overview of coming maintenance events, but also control of the effects that changes in operations have on maintenance events.

Global Aviation Cloud (GAC)

Developed specifically for the needs and security standards of airlines, the GAC’s future-proof deployment model allows airlines to focus on their core business and quickly adapt to dynamic business requirements.

By migrating NetLine/Ops ++ MaintenanceControl to the GAC, JAL will benefit from its multi-cloud approach.

This means that critical revenue impacting applications are deployed across multiple clouds with active workloads and disaster recovery. This creates redundancy in case of complete outages of one cloud provider.

Additionally, the availability of applications in different regions across different cloud providers helps effectively to meet compliance, regulatory and governance requirements.

Hiroshi Hashimoto, director of IT planning and promotion at Japan Airlines, said: “JAL considers IT security and reliability to be of utmost importance as an airline.

“It is essential for JAL to be prepared for potential malfunctions or breakdowns.

“JAL believes that Lufthansa Systems’ Global Aviation Cloud is one of the most effective solutions for JAL’s business contingency plan in the case of large-scale disasters in Japan.”

Hashimoto adds: “Additionally, JAL anticipates faster response times and a reduced workload for system maintenance.

“By migrating to Lufthansa Systems’ GAC, JAL enhances JAL’s security against failures and minimise the impact on JAL’s flight operations. JAL appreciates Lufthansa Systems’ proposal for the migration to GAC.”

Kazuya Ota, vice President of Far East Asia and Taiwan at Lufthansa Systems, said: “We are pleased to deepen our partnership with Japan Airlines by providing them the best possible IT-security through our one-stop-shop and highly advanced cloud environment.

“This allows JAL to concentrate on their core business processes – within a modern and stable IT infrastructure with only one central point of contact, Lufthansa Systems.”

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