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24 Nov 2025
From the Stage in Bangkok to a Seamless Operation:

How Nauru Airlines Adopted Leon Software

How Nauru Airlines Adopted Leon Flight Scheduling Software

Flight Operations IT Conference

Operational evolution
with Leon Software

At the Aircraft Commerce “Airline & Aerospace MRO & Flight Operations IT Conference” in Bangkok, Peter Holmes opened his case study with a simple confession:

“We were running an airline on spreadsheets.”

The room nodded—many had been there. But Peter’s story took a sharp turn when Australian FTL rules started biting. “That’s when the cracks widened,” he said. “We needed a system that could see the whole picture, warn early, and keep everyone aligned.” What followed was Nauru Airlines’ leap from Excel into Leon Software—sparked by a free trial, visible pricing, and a quick path to value.

Nauru Airlines

A short origin story: life in Excel

Nauru Airlines began, like many lean carriers, with operations stitched together in Excel—crew rosters, aircraft rotations, maintenance notes, and sales updates all living in separate files. It worked—until fleet growth, island-hopping complexity, and time-zone juggling collided with Australian FTL requirements. Manual checks turned into daily fire drills. The team needed automation, shared visibility, and bulletproof compliance.

✈️ Why Leon? Free trial, visible pricing, fast fit

Two things lowered the barrier to entry: Leon’s no-commitment free trial and transparent pricing. Nauru could load real operational data, model their unique patterns, and evaluate risk reduction without procurement friction. Within weeks, the team saw how Leon handled FTL logic, crew currency, and duty planning out of the box.

The Bangkok moment

What Peter shared

Peter walked the audience through the turning point: once Australian FTL constraints were configured in Leon, planners could spot potential violations days in advance, not hours. Pairings shifted, rest windows adjusted, and the roster stayed compliant—without the late-night phone calls. That early win unlocked buy-in across departments: “If it can tame FTL and currency, it can help everywhere,” Peter noted. He also highlighted Leon’s Mobile App: crews check duties, acknowledge changes, request days off, and message OPS directly—turning email chains into clean acknowledgements and audit trails.

The Leon features that mattered

Operations (OPS): control, compliance, calm

  • Real-time FTL checks & fatigue rules
    (Australia-ready) with proactive warnings.
  • Crew currency & quals tracked automatically with surfaced alerts.
  • Disruption handling for swaps and tail changes—compliance preserved.
  • Mobile App for duty views, comms, and day-off requests.

Scheduling: one source of truth

  • Gantt-style rosters & rotations aligning crews, aircraft, and stations.
  • Scenario planning to test pairings and see downstream effects instantly.
  • Roster publication & acknowledgements built into the workflow.

Sales & Commercial: decisions backed by data

  • Quote → booking → invoice unified, with the ability to swiftly modify invoices as plans change.
  • Wide variety of reports: route/customer revenue, utilisation, margins, OTP, and ad-hoc management views.
  • Shared visibility with OPS so closed charters don’t surprise the schedule

Maintenance & Engineering: “friendly by default”

  • Maintenance-aware planning: checks and MELs respected in rotations.
  • Easy, intuitive UI—maintenance engineers praised Leon for being user-friendly and fast to navigate.
  • Immediate impact awareness when OPS reshuffles assets.

The AI assist

Smarter reports, cleaner paperwork

Peter also highlighted Leon’s AI features:

  • Reporting assist for clearer, management-ready summaries that blend operational and commercial KPIs.
  • Invoice editing help’s catch mismatches, suggests cleaner phrasing, and accelerates corrections.

✈️ What changed for Nauru Airlines

  • From reactive to proactive: Australian FTLs became a planning input, not a nightly emergency.
  • From emails to acknowledgements: Crew comms moved into the app with trackable confirmations.
  • From file sprawl to one truth: Everyone works off the same live operational picture.
  • From manual reporting to on-demand insight: Sales and leadership self-serve the numbers they need.

Closing thoughts

Peter’s Bangkok case study distilled a familiar journey: Excel creaks, regulations tighten, and the operation needs a central nervous system. Leon’s free trial and transparent pricing opened the door; OPS reliability, scheduling clarity, sales reporting, maintenance visibility, and a crew-first mobile experience kept it open. With AI smoothing reports and invoices, Nauru Airlines now spends less time formatting—and more time flying.

Contact and press information

Rafał Grad

Marketing Manager
Leon for Scheduled operators

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