Dispatch, Fleet, Crew, Finance. One Platform.
An earlier platform build for air charter operators, included here because it shows the kind of operational complexity PlushWire can model and deliver. Dispatch, crew scheduling, fleet maintenance, route planning, quoting, and financial reporting - built into one connected system.
The Product
Chartereasy was a platform built for air charter companies managing the full operational picture: aircraft scheduling, crew certifications, fuel costs, route planning, financial reporting, and customer quotes - all at once.
These operators were running critical workflows across disconnected programs with no shared record. Every quote required manual calculation. Every scheduling decision meant cross-checking certification records and maintenance logs separately. The goal was a single platform built around how charter operations actually work - not adapted from generic business software.
The Problem
Before the platform was built, this is what charter operations looked like.
- xDispatchers entered the same flight data into multiple programs - scheduling, billing, and maintenance logs had no shared record
- xPilot scheduling was managed manually: tracking certifications, aircraft type ratings, rest period requirements, and regulatory compliance across separate records
- xEvery charter quote required a time-consuming manual calculation involving fuel costs, route stops, weather variables, and aircraft performance - with no system to enforce the math or catch errors
- xMaintenance tracking was disconnected from scheduling - nothing prevented a grounded aircraft from being assigned to a flight
- xFinancial reporting required pulling data from multiple sources and reconciling it manually at the end of each period
What We Built
A modular platform built around the workflows of an actual charter operation.
Each module was designed around a specific operational workflow - not generic business logic. The architecture was built to connect them: data entered in one area flows to the others without manual re-entry.
Dispatch and operations: one data record across all roles
Fleet management, maintenance tracking, scheduling, and billing were connected under a single data model. No secondary tools required for day-to-day operations.
- Fleet maintenance status linked directly to the scheduling module
- Flight time and fuel consumption logged in one place, available across all roles
- Data import tools for onboarding from existing records
Crew scheduling with compliance constraints built in
The personnel module was built to model the constraints that make aviation scheduling complex: certification types, aircraft ratings, rest period requirements, and regulatory rules - checked against assignments before they're confirmed.
- Workforce planning accounts for certification status and regulatory requirements
- Scheduling designed to enforce rest period requirements and regulatory constraints
- Flight pack generation consolidates the required documents for each flight
Quote generation built on real aircraft and route data
The quoting module was designed to replace manual calculation with a system that models actual flight variables: aircraft performance parameters, fuel requirements, intermediate stops, and seasonal conditions.
- Route planning with intermediate stops accounts for real aircraft performance figures
- Fuel consumption monitoring feeds directly into pricing calculations
- CRM tools and custom reports built to support sales and marketing workflows
System Scope
What the platform unified.
The platform was built to centralize workflows that charter operators were running across separate tools: dispatch, maintenance, crew, finance, and quoting - all connected under one data model, designed to eliminate redundant data entry across roles.
A note on this build
This is an older platform, last materially updated in 2017. It's included here not as a recent result, but because it demonstrates the kind of operational complexity we're comfortable designing from scratch: compliance-sensitive scheduling, multi-role data sharing, domain-specific pricing logic, and workflow integration across an entire operation.
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