Private Aviation: Total Visibility Across the Fleet

The Client

One of Canada's leading charter and aircraft management companies operates a diverse fleet on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, with flight operations, maintenance, and finance each generating their own stream of data

The Challenge

Leadership needed to see the business as one picture: revenue, aircraft utilization, maintenance cost, and financial performance. Instead, every month meant exporting Business Central data to Excel, stitching together workbooks from three departments, and presenting numbers that were already weeks old. Different teams brought different versions of the same figure to the same meeting.

The Solution

Elara built a unified data and analytics system on Microsoft Fabric, consolidating Business Central and operational data into one governed model. On top of it: an executive reporting suite in Power BI, led by a single Executive Summary page. The whole operation, one screen, refreshed daily

The reporting suite covers financial performance by entity and department, charter revenue and utilization by aircraft, and maintenance cost tracking, with drill through from the executive page to transaction level detail

Technology Used

The Results

The executive team now opens one dashboard every morning instead of waiting for month end packs. Utilization reporting surfaced routing and scheduling opportunities worth an estimated +5% load factor. Finance stopped rebuilding spreadsheets, more than 20 hours of manual reporting effort per month went away, and every department argues from the same numbers

“Beyond the reports themselves, Elara helped us understand our business in ways we just did not have visibility into before.”

Executive Team, Private Aviation Operator