Driving Cost Savings for Europe’s Leading Low-Cost Airline Ryanair.

Ryanair’s objective is to firmly establish itself as Europe’s leading low-fares scheduled passenger airline through continued improvements and expanded offerings of its low-fares service. Ryanair aims to offer low fares that generate increased passenger traffic while maintaining a continuous focus on cost-containment and operating efficiencies. Their determination to achieve cost savings and to drive efficiency has resulted in them becoming leaders in the adoption of mobile technologies.

CWSI worked with Ryanair to introduce a new Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) concept as part of the airline’s ‘Always Getting Better’ programme. Instead of carrying heavy briefcases full of paper flight documentation, over 4,000 pilots were issued with iPads and given mobile access to key aviation applications and data.

Pilots can now access applications such as Boeing’s Onboard Performance Tool (OPT) for take-off performance calculations, view the latest weather reports and guarantee they have the most up-to-date electronic flight manuals.

In the world of aviation space and weight cost money and the EFB solution delivered significant savings on both, saving over 15kgs of weight per flight and over 10 million pieces of paper per year.

In such a critical operating environment, reliability and security were key.  CWSI deployed Ivanti’s Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) platform to help Ryanair easily secure, track and manage the devices.  The IT team can easily deploy a growing range of new aviation applications to the devices, update applications promptly, remotely reset security passcodes, and wipe data from lost or missing devices.

Provisioning a new or replacement device, complete with all the necessary applications, is automated, quick and seamless, keeping pilots secure, productive and in the air.  A central reporting and monitoring platform provide Ryanair with all the information it needs to manage security, demonstrate compliance and continuously improve operational efficiency.