Search Example: British Airways accidents over a 5-year period.

In this example, we are going to review the fleet of British Airways and any accidents related to the operator or the fleet in the past 5 years (01/01/2011 – 31/12/2015).

  1. Start in the Aircraft section, Detail tab.
  2. In the QFS type in British Airways, select British Airways as Operator filter. Similarly, add Status & Usage filters as ‘In Service’ and ‘Storage’, you are now viewing the currently active fleet of British Airways.
  3. Go to the Trend view, select to group by status and adjust the dates to show the last 5 complete years (2011-2015) to see how it has developed in the past 5 years. Select metric ‘Total aircraft’ to focus on the most relevant figures. Your screen would look like the image shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1. British Airways accidents over a 5-year period (click image to view full size).

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Search Example: All-risk total losses to commercial aircraft over a 10-year period

In this example, we are going to review the number of accidents that are of all-risk (that is, not resulting from acts of war) and were total losses to commercial aircraft, for the ten ear period 01/01/2006 to 30/12/2015.

  1. Start in the Accidents section, Detail tab.
  2. Click on the ‘Add filter menu’ button.
  3. Go to the Date & Identification filter and selecte the date range for 01/01/2006 to 30/12/2015.
  4. Go to the Event Circumstances filter, select Accident Category as ‘All Risk’.
  5. Go to the Loss Type filter, select ‘Total Loss’ filter.
  6. Go to the Market Grouping At Accident filter, select ‘Commercial’ in Market Sector at Accident.
  7. Click Accept to run the search. Your screen will look like the image shown in Figure 1 below.
Figure 1. All-risk total loss results (click image to view full size).

Search Example: Find leased aircraft from a Lessor

In this example, we are going to look for the aircraft currently leased from SMBC Aviation Capital, and then we’re going to see which aircraft types are in service with which operators, along with the contact information for those operators.

  1. Start on the Aircraft Section, Detail tab.
  2. In the Quick Filter Search (QFS) type “SMBC” and select SMBC Aviation Capital from the Manager category.
  3. In the QFS type “in service” and select in service from the Status category. You should see around 380 aircraft in the grid.
  4. Now select the Summary Tab and group by Operator and Aircraft Type. You should see around 140 rows in the grid.
  5. As you have filtered by in service aircraft only, it is worth customising the columns in the grid, I’d suggested including Total In Service, Age Range, and Average Age. Your screen should appear similar to that shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1. SMBC leased aircraft, grouped by Operator and Type (click image to view full size).

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Search Example: Finding companies (operators, etc.) associated with specific aircraft

In order to find a list of operators, managers, owners, etc. who are associated with aircraft, you first have to search for the relevant aircraft. i.e. you have to start on the Aircraft section.

  1. On the Aircraft section, filter until you have the list of aircraft you are interested in.
  2. Click on the column header of the company role you are interested in e.g. ‘operator’ (if the company role you are interested in is not visible then add it using the Add/Remove columns).
  3. From the drop-down list that appears, select ‘Companies in this role’ (see Figure 1).
  4. You will then be taken to the Companies section, where your list of companies will be displayed in the results (see Figure 2). You can then add company specific filters or company specific columns.
Figure 1. Extra options available from the company role columns (click image to view full size).
Figure 2. A list of companies as shown in the Companies section (click image to view full size).

Release Notes v8.9

Features added and bugs squished in this release:

  • Finance and traffic for airlines and airports
  • Donut charts
  • Change to the Quick Filter Select (QFS)
  • Bug – Columns not sorting correctly
  • Bug – Enter key cancelling an export
  • Bug – Maintenance D-checks sub-grid
  • Bug – Period sub-grid being displayed when interval sub-grid should be displayed
  • Bug – Company search dropdown
  • Bug – Incorrect MTOW values

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Release Notes v8.8

Old and new registrations on Aircraft Events

On the Aircraft Events search page, we have introduced two new optional columns:

  • Old registration (just prior to an event)
  • New registration (just after an event)

These are in addition to the Current Registration (at today’s date) column. The two new columns are best used in conjunction with events that are likely to result in a change to the aircraft registration:  e.g. purchased, leased-in, etc.

Figure 1. Old and new registration available in the “Age and identification” section of the add/remove column picker (click image to view full size)
Figure 2. Old, new and current registrations shown for A320 purchase and leased-in events (click image to view full size)

Release Notes v8.6

The following new features have been added in this release:

  • Order ID

Order ID

An order ID has been created and assigned to individual aircraft. Aircraft will share an order ID if the aircraft all form part of a single order and are of the same subseries. Order ID is most useful in the Aircraft section as a grouping option. Order ID can be found in the following locations in Flight Fleets Analyzer: Continue reading “”