Jessica Reed is a writer and editor with AIN. She joined the team in the fall of 2023 after two years covering the aviation industry at Avionics International. She earned her bachelor&#039;s degree in English (Writing &amp; Rhetoric) from Pepperdine University. Her hometown is St. Louis, Missouri, and she since has resided in Santa Barbara, California, and Brooklyn, New York, among others. She is currently based in Vernon, New Jersey.

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Universal Weather and Aviation has formed a strategic partnership with ForeFlight to develop a proprietary system-to-system integration that will enable Universal to deliver professionally-built flight plans directly to customers’ ForeFlight accounts.&nbsp;Expected to be available in the second half of 2025, the integration aims to streamline operations for flight departments by combining Universal’s expertise in international trip support with ForeFlight’s digital platform capabilities.
“Our customers rely on our flight planners for the expertise and precision they bring to every flight plan we deliver, and we deliver a lot,” said Universal executive v-p of digital product management Guido Groeschel. “Through this integration, we’ll soon be able to deliver our professionally-built flight plans directly within the ForeFlight platform, which many of our customers already use.”
As part of this initiative, Universal will begin endorsing ForeFlight as its preferred digital self-service flight planning solution and plans to phase out its own online flight-planning subscription service. The company will continue handling all aspects of flight-plan development, including aircraft performance data management and route optimization.
For operators currently using Universal’s online flight-planning subscription service, the companies will provide dedicated onboarding support, tailored training, and transition offers to facilitate migration to ForeFlight Dispatch.&nbsp;Tim Schuetze, CEO of ForeFlight, noted that the integration creates “a single workflow that enhances efficiency and reduces workload.”

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Universal Weather and Aviation has announced a strategic partnership with ForeFlight to develop a proprietary system-to-system integration for flight plans.


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