merlot.aero recognized as 'Most Innovative Airline Operations Software Company' in 2019 International Air Transport News Awards

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, April 1, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- merlot.aero is honored to receive the International Air Transport News 2019 award for 'Most Innovative Airline Software Company'.

As airlines face a multitude of pressures, innovations that drive down cost, increase performance, and deliver disruptive competitive differentiation are central to success. "Over 800,000 pilots and crew worldwide must be optimized to deliver the necessary paradigm shift in airline performance and this is what gets us excited every day. With 5-15% crew performance savings translating to millions of dollars annually, this is a significant opportunity in an industry doing more with less. merlot.aero is proud to be recognized by our peers for our innovation leadership," says Mark McCaughan, CEO of merlot.aero. "Many of our customers have realized that the key to success is brilliant decision-making. Our cloud-based solutions provide a powerful data store for all crew decisions and our optimization analytics are unleashing insights that take performance to the next level."

Airlines from all over the world will be furthering innovation at the inaugural merlot.aero Airline Performance Summit April 2 -- 4. The summit will focus on how airlines can drive performance improvements through advances in optimization software such as pairing and rosters optimization, workforce planning, and disruption avoidance and recovery.

About merlot.aero:

merlot.aero is a pioneer of cloud-based airline crew performance solutions which underpin lowest cost, highest performance, and disruptive innovation strategies. Our Crew Operations solutions create a strategic data foundation for brilliant decisions with robust business logic across crew training, scheduling, tracking and governance. Our Crew Optimization solutions help shape long-range crew plans with new levels of precision, optimize near-term pairing schedules by evaluating thousands of scenarios, avoid disruption through predictive analytics, and harmonizes day-of-operations by quickly interacting with crew and resources. The result: step-change performance across the entire crew lifecycle. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, merlot.aero has operations and customers in over 20 countries. Find out how airlines unleash crew performance at www.merlot.aero.

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