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WSI Announces Partnership with AC-U-KWIK
ANDOVER, Mass.-(Business Wire)-October 5, 2008 - WSI Corporation (www.wsi.com), the most trusted weather decision support provider in the aviation industry, today announced a strategic partnership with AC-U-KWIK®, a product of Penton Business Media, Inc., that will enable the integration of AC-U-KWIK’s global airport and FBO data into WSI’s suite of Proactive Operations Management products.
AC-U-KWIK maintains a worldwide database of 8,000 airports with hard-surfaced runways over 3,000 feet in length, including runway dimensions, available approaches and contact information. Each airport has detailed listings for FBOs, handlers, fuel suppliers, ground transportation and catering. This data will be incorporated in WSI pre-flight briefing tools to provide pilots and dispatchers with a comprehensive analysis of weather, hazards, facilities and services information for their route of flight and destination.
"AC-U-KWIK is the absolute gold standard for airport and FBO data," said Paul Hathaway, Director of Product Management for WSI. "For 25 years, business aviators have relied on the AC-U-KWIK North American and International directories for up-to-date information on unfamiliar airports. The addition of this invaluable data to WSI Pilotbrief Onlineâ„¢, for example, will provide pilots and dispatchers with a convenient, single source for pre-flight briefings. We are truly excited to announce this partnership and the value it brings to WSI and AC-U-KWIK customers."
"Very much like us, WSI is a trusted brand that has been providing best-in-class services to business aviation for many, many years," said Frank Craven, Group Publisher at Penton Business Media. "We feel that our respective products are highly synergistic and critical to safe and efficient flight operations, so it makes perfect sense for us to partner on making access to that pre-flight information simpler. We're happy to reach new customers though WSI’s products and also to be a part of WSI’s continued value enhancements for its business aviation customers."
WSI will be demonstrating its suite of Proactive Operations Management solutions in booth 4476 at the NBAA convention in Orlando, FL from October 6th to 8th. AC-U-KWIK will be showing its suite of airport and FBO directory services in booth 1662.
About WSI Pilotbrief Online
WSI Pilotbrief Online is the FAA QICP certified part of the award-winning WSI Pilotbrief weather service suite, which is consistently voted #1 by professional pilots in reader surveys. Each day, thousands of aviation professionals trust the WSI Pilotbrief systems found at the nation’s top FBOs and corporate flight departments to provide the highest quality information and to plan safe flights. Pilotbrief Online provides direct access to WSI’s industry standard aviation products including WSI NOWrad® radar imagery, Radar Summary with Echo Tops, IR and Visible Satellite imagery as well as international radar. WSI also delivers critical aviation weather information such as public and proprietary PIREPs, SIGMETs, and AIRMETs, METARs, TAFs, and NOTAMs. WSI Pilotbrief Online also features WSI’s global SIGMET alerts and Flight Plan Guidance forecasts for turbulence, convection, icing, and volcanic ash. WSI Pilotbrief Online is one in a series of proactive operations management solutions offered by WSI that transform weather information into safer and more efficient flight and airport operations.
About WSI Corporation
WSI Corporation is the world's leading provider of weather-driven business solutions for professionals in the aviation, media and energy markets. WSI’s proactive operation management suite ensures common situational awareness and continuity in decisions through every phase of flight. Voted the #1 service by professional pilots for 10 consecutive years, WSI Pilotbrief™ provides professional pilots with a comprehensive preflight briefing prior to takeoff, helping pilots plan safe and efficient operations. WSI InFlight® provides pilots real-time and on-demand graphic weather information in the cockpit, improving safety and weather-avoidance routing in-flight. WSI Fusion enables flight operators to stay ahead of changing operational conditions and take immediate action, improving safety and operational performance. WSI Hubcast™ provides airport stakeholders with precise terminal forecasts to proactively plan traffic flow, snow removal, and deicing operations. WSI also provides cockpit weather services via the FAA’s Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast (ADS-B) Flight Information Services including Capstone and SafeFlight 21. Headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts with offices in Birmingham, England, WSI is a member of The Weather Channel Companies.
For more information call (800) USA-2FLY, or visit: www.wsi.com
In the Eastern Hemisphere call +44 (0) 121 233 7600.
About AC-U-KWIK
For more than 25 years, AC-U-KWIK has been providing the aviation industry with the most accurate and up-to-date airport / FBO directories. Each directory contains complete listings of FBOs, charter companies, fuel suppliers, ground transportation, maintenance and catering services at public airports across the world. AC-U-KWIK is a product of Penton Business Media, Inc. and is based in Overland Park, Kansas.
For more information call 1-800-400-5945, or visit: www.acukwik.com
About Penton Business Media, Inc.
Penton is the largest independent business-to-business media company in the U.S., serving more than six million business professionals every month. The company's market-leading brands are focused on 30 industries and include 113 trade magazines, 145 Web sites, 150 industry trade shows and conferences, and more than 500 information data products. Headquartered in New York City, the privately held company is owned by MidOcean Partners and U.S. Equity Partners II, an investment fund sponsored by Wasserstein & Co., LP, and its co-investors. For additional information on the company and its businesses, visit www.penton.com.
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