A new partnership between FlightAware and Signature Flight Support is expected to provide enhanced communication and coordination between Signature’s FBOs and aircraft operators and owners who are FlightAware Global customers. FlightAware will establish its FBO Toolbox web-based software at Signature’s nearly 200 locations, the company announced today ahead of the 2019 NBAA Schedulers & Dispatchers Conference, which opens tomorrow in San Antonio, Texas.

It will allow FlightAware Global users to pre-select a Signature FBO they intend to visit, sending the FBO an email to prepare for their arrival. Even if an aircraft is blocked from public tracking, Global users can permit the receiving FBO to track their airplanes.

Signature’s FBOs also will host FlightAware’s proprietary ADS-B ground stations called FlightFeeders. That functionality, a service that FlightAware calls "Ready to Taxi," will permit Global users to know when their airplanes power on at their originating location, when they are taxiing, and when they park at their destination. “The integration of FlightAware’s technology will further enhance our ability to provide customers with efficient and accurate service delivery no matter where customers fly within the global Signature network,” said Signature chief commercial officer Shawn Hall.

FlightAware CEO Daniel Baker said his company looks to add new features to further connect Signature’s FBOs with aircraft operators.