ArincDirect Fully Integrated by Rockwell Collins

ArincDirect is highlighting fuel tankering, integrated weight-and-balance cacluations, FOS integration and connectivity solutions.

By Matt Thurber • Editor-in-Chief

December 9, 2014

“Arinc was the largest acquisition in Rockwell Collins history,” said Brian Kruger, senior director of the company’s ArincDirect unit. Five years ago Rockwell Collins purchased the former Air Routing international trip planning and handling company, creating the Ascend Flight Information Solutions division. After the Arinc purchase in December 2013, Rockwell Collins merged Ascend with Arinc’s services division and created the new ArincDirect business unit, which is part of Rockwell Collins’s Information Management Services division.

ArincDirect is highlighting four key technologies here at MEBA (Stand 625): a new fuel tankering feature; integrated weight-and-balance/performance calculations in the ArincDirect iPad app; new integration with Rockwell Collins’s Flight Operations System (FOS) software for scheduling and operations management; and connectivity solutions for flight crew and passengers.

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