Germania, one of the most established German airlines in the wet-lease segment, selected the airpas cost management and route profitability controlling solution in 2009.

Germania Fluggesellschaft, based at Berlin-Tegel, looks back at over 30 years of expertise in the airline industry. Since 1979, the 100% privately owned airline transports million of passengers annually to more than 30 preferred destinations within Germany, Europe and around the globe. Today, the airline focuses on Airline Wet-Leasing, Charter and Scheduled Sales. The company currently employs a staff of about 600 in eight locations. For further information, visit www.flygermania.de.

Edda Gauch, former CEO of GMI, who elected to implement the airpas solution at the carrier, said: “In recent years, Germania has grown from a wet-lease carrier to both a private tour operator carrier as well as scheduled airline. To support growth at the carrier, an effective solution was required to optimize our invoice reconciliation process as well as route profitability calculations. The decision to implement airpas came after a short and intensive evaluation phase of the main functionalities where the system easily confirmed the handling of our fundamental needs. The close partnership and productive communication between us and the Airpas Aviation team led to both a highly efficient and successful project implementation.”

 
The initial set-up phase was completed on target within 4 months. It included the import of data related to three main business areas which are ATC (Air Traffic Control), Fuel and Ground Operations for both Landing and Aircraft Handling. As interfaces to Germania’s operational systems existed within the airpas system, tables could be created with relative ease to import the operational data required for invoice reconciliation.

In addition, a cost calculation utility was configured for Germania´s specific need for a charter handling functionality. This supported the Germania team in promoting charter sales.

 
John Kohlsaat, Chief Commercial Officer at Germania, said: “The airpas system is a big step for Germania. The accuracy and level of detail is helping us in preparing budgets, evaluating flight revenues or driving individual seat sales. The flexible reporting tool within airpas allows us to evaluate precisely and translate assessments into business.”

 
Stephan Wilde, Director of Controlling at Germania and airpas implementation project owner, said: “The extensive know-how of the airpas project team in regard to airline processes and the conversion into the airpas system was invaluable during the implementation phase of the project. The airpas system now automates our previous routine of manual tasks and, in addition,  provides our team with high quality data which is now used for strategic financial management and decision making.  Streamlining these tasks resulted in better job satisfaction, as well as an overall positive motivation to work with the new system.”