Navtech

Navtech is a Canadian company that specializes in airline operations software. They provide products which include solutions for flight planning, aircraft performance, aeronautical charts, crew planning,electronic flight bag and navigational data. Navtech is based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada with an additional office in Hersham, United Kingdom and several satellite offices worldwide.

In the mid-1980s Ray English, an Air Canada pilot, had the idea of using a computer system to calculate the benefits of tankering fuel. His concept expanded to include a computerized flight planning system. His wife, a self-taught software engineer, and a small staff developed this technology. They began working in their garage in a small town near Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Over the next few years, Navtech acquired several customers. They developed a hosted implementation of computerized flight planning which allowed customers to communicate remotely with Navtech computers to request and generate a flight plan. Navtech merged with Compuflight, a flight operations services provider based in Long Island, New York, in 1994 to expand its flight planning market share and to introduce runway analysis service to its customers.

Navtech further augmented its flight operations service portfolio in 1998 when it acquired the Weather Service Division of Global Weather Dynamics Inc. (GWDI) which was based in Monterey, California. In 1999, Navtech acquired Skyplan's UK division to accelerate its growth in the European market.

Over the next five years Navtech expanded its product portfolio to include crew planning with the acquisition of Airware Solutions (Preferential Bidding System) in 2001. A partnership was created with Parallel Integrated Applications Systems to offer airlines its Pairings Optimizer.