Bytron

Bytron builds skybook, an aviation flight dispatch and electronic flight bag system covering flight dispatch, crew briefing, operations boards and airfield monitoring. The vendor states it is trusted by more than 130 airlines worldwide.

Briefing is the function everything else supports. Before a flight departs, the crew must receive a package covering route, weather, notices to airmen, fuel and alternates, and it must be current at departure rather than when it was assembled. Producing that reliably and repeatedly, for every flight, is the daily work of a dispatch operation and where errors are most consequential.

The operations board addresses the other half, which is awareness across the fleet rather than depth on one flight. A duty controller needs to see the schedule and where delays are developing, because the response to a delay is usually about the aircraft's next sector rather than the one currently late.

Airfield Watch monitors conditions at the airfields an operator uses, so changes affecting an active flight surface without someone checking each one. Bytron also offers a Ground Portal, extending the same information to ground operations rather than keeping it in the flight deck and dispatch office.