Flight Explorer to become part of Sabre Airline Solutions

Sabre Holdings has acquired Flight Explorer, a provider of Commercial Aircraft Situation Display (ASD) solutions providing real-time tracking, reporting, and display of en-route aircraft

Flight Explorer products will be fully integrated with Sabre's Dispatch Manager, part of Sabre Airline Solutions' Flight Planning suite.

The combined solutions will leverage the graphic components and proactive alerting capabilities of Flight Explorer with the flight planning capabilities of Sabre Dispatch Manager to help airlines choose efficient, cost-effective flight plan.

Later this year, Flight Explorer and Sabre will launch SmartFleet, a tool that will give airlines an opportunity to reap the benefits offered by the integration of Collaborative Decision Making (CDM) tools into the Flight Explorer ASD.

SmartFleet will be fully integrated with Dispatch Manager and will combine multiple data sources of air traffic, airport capacity and weather into one display while interacting with the flight planning engine.

SmartFleet is expected to significantly improve on-time performance, aircraft utilisation and fuel efficiencies across carriers and general aviation.