Hello Brian!

15 Mar 21 13:18, you wrote to Anna Christina Nass:

I laugh at this whenever I hear that faxes are more secure. Too many times I've seen faxes, labeled SECURE, sitting on the fax machine
waiting to be picked up by someone. If companies would just open up a secure portal on their website to accept SECURE messages, this would
get rid of the whole fax dilema.

Technology -- two steps forward, three steps back.

There were some advantages of fax communication (where I understood why German companies still insist to keep fax communication). It is really peer2peer and sender immediately knows if fax was received.

Do you remember time when emails were alredy born but automotive companies insisted on odette standards?

Karel

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There were some advantages of fax communication (where I understood
why German companies still insist to keep fax communication). It is
really peer2peer and sender immediately knows if fax was received.

Do you remember time when emails were alredy born but automotive
companies insisted on odette standards?

I vaguely remember this. Even to this day, some companies insist on
legacy EDI standards instead of more modern secure methods of
communication. I remember working for a company in the mid 90s that
refused to move off of their existing EDI system... why? The airlines
relied upon it for AOG (Aircraft On Ground) based shipment and
communications. Airlines!?!? Oh, well, I shouldn't SABRE-rattle. :)


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Hello Brian!

16 Mar 21, Brian Klauss wrote to Karel Kral:

refused to move off of their existing EDI system... why? The airlines relied upon it for AOG (Aircraft On Ground) based shipment and communications. Airlines!?!?

Aviation IT is the supreme discipline for interface networking.

It isn't rare that upgraded software keeps the limitations of it's predecessor just for compatibility with the network.

The AOG condition is a defect that prevents the aircraft to fly. If it doesn't two flights will be cancled. Two? Yes, the aircraft does the return flight too.

On "no night flights" airports you have to get airborn before the runway closes. If you don't then you'll need 250 hotel beds.

That's why you need a spare part storage on the airport where common important parts are ready for AOG. Wheels for example. If you have 50 airlines with 2 aircraft types with each two spare wheels you will need a storage of 200 wheels on each airport. This doesn't make sense and that's why there are pool part storages. Airlines share the pool and the data access to that pool.

If you upgrade you have to upgrade all airlines at once.

Regards

Kai

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