Originally Posted by
AlaskaBound
The word "LIDO" in the article just made me cringe. We used LIDO charts at 9E for a while and it was a miserable format. This seems like a pretty good move in the right direction if it has nothing to do with the actual LIDO charts. If I'm not mistaken Lufthansa created the LIDO charts and 9E, Lufthansa and FedEx were about the only airlines that used them.
They have been working on this for awhile. The holdup was that Aerodata which is owned by Sabre was not able to be used with the Lido flight planning software. Weight and balance was going to have to be done manually. Hoping they finally got a workaround to that. You have to ask why they are switching... it's because their Sabre infrastructure is poor and outdated and Lido is cheaper.