Air Transat Equips Engineering with Pacelab Cabin

SEATTLE and BERLIN, Feb. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Canada's leading holiday travel airline Air Transat has purchased Pacelab Cabin to support cabin upgrade investigations for their fleet of Airbus A310 and A330 aircraft. In addition, the cabin configuration tool by Berlin-based software provider PACE will be used to analyze future seating scenarios in the context of aircraft purchasing decisions.

Pacelab Cabin automates the modeling and positioning of cabin interior items such as seats and galleys and continuously verifies the layout's compliance with operational and certification requirements. For the engineering team at Air Transat's Technical Operations department, the introduction of the software has drastically reduced the time required to create optimized and validated cabin arrangements while minimizing the level of discrepancies during the actual cabin re-configuration.

"Pacelab Cabin was recommended to us as the cabin configuration software of choice, and we are indeed very pleased with the speed and accuracy of the results," explains Mike Malka, P.Eng, Director Engineering, Technical Operations at Air Transat. "Thanks to the great support we received from PACE during the implementation phase, we went productive in a surprisingly short time."

About Air Transat

Air Transat is Canada's leading holiday travel airline. It carries some 3 million passengers annually to nearly 60 destinations in 25 countries. Air Transat has a fleet of 18 aircraft with a mix of Airbus A330s and A310s. The company employs approximately 2,000 people. Air Transat is a subsidiary of Transat A.T. Inc., an integrated international tour operator with more than 60 destination countries and that distributes products in over 50 countries. More information about Air Transat is available at ww.airtransat.com

About PACE

PACE, with offices in Germany, France and the U.S., develops knowledge based engineering software aimed at accelerating complex engineering processes. PACE software solutions help customers in the aerospace, automotive and transportation industry to better predict and plan the feasibility, performance and cost of their products.

Customers include Airbus, Air France Industries, Bauhaus Luftfahrt, Boeing, Bombardier, Embraer, Emirates, ESG, Etihad, Eurocopter, Lufthansa CityLine, MDA, Rolls-Royce, Snecma, Sukhoi and Volkswagen. More information on PACE is available on the Internet at www.pacelab.com.

SOURCE PACE America, Inc.