United Airlines Expands Its Use of FleetCycle

Sept. 3, 2013
UAL will expand its use of EmpowerMX maintenance-execution ERP solution beyond its Houston and Orlando facilities into all of its heavy and modification checklines located at San Francisco International Airport.

Dallas, Texas -- EmpowerMX, an industry-recognized leader in aviation-maintenance software solutions and aircraft maintenance program-management services, announces the expansion of its license agreement with United Airlines. Under the terms of this agreement, UAL will expand its use of FleetCycle® Production Manager (FCXP) maintenance-execution ERP solution beyond its Houston and Orlando facilities into all of its heavy and modification checklines located at San Francisco International Airport (SFO). UAL will also employ EmpowerMX business process improvement consulting services to ensure software-supported best practices are implemented across the depth and breadth of their aircraft-maintenance system.

EmpowerMX software/consulting solutions are helping the world's airlines keep pace with the increasingly competitive aircraft maintenance marketplace by providing solutions that optimize their production efficiencies, minimize operating costs, and widen profit margins by increasing the on-time reliability of their diverse fleets of aircraft.

From its corporate headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, UAL operates a fleet of 569 regional aircraft and 698 narrow- and wide-body aircraft on the world's most comprehensive route network serving 62 countries, 373 international destinations, 5,431 daily departures and 140 million passengers (2012). UAL has an employee population of 88,513 that includes more than 8,700 technical operations people working around the clock/calendar to ensure the airworthiness of every UAL aircraft.