The Flight Crew Information Systems (FCIS), was developed in November of 1996 as a prototype to introduce new communications technology to the employees and management of Hawaiian Airlines. FCIS is centered around the ever expanding world of the Internet. Everywhere we look today, Internet addresses are advertised, promoting the wares and concepts from small and large companies to individuals selling themselves to the world. This technology is from the soul and heart of the free spirit of entrepreneurs who are not restricted with main stream ideologies that limit other technologies.

The FCIS represents a first effort in the global concept to centralize information for all employees at Hawaiian Airlines. In time, FCIS Productions hopes to make a one stop shop for all inter-active communications and informational distribution of educational, administration, human resource and social communications between all facets of the airline.

First to recognize the benefit of this technology is the Airline Pilots Association and its in-house branch, the HAL Pilots Master Executive Council. Under the leadership of MEC Chairperson, Reno Morella and Communications Committee Chairman, Kevin Connelly, FCIS received its first support. FCIS is introduced via the Internet with the domain name, HALPILOT.COM.

The initial goal of the FCIS is to deliver information that rarely changes. One of these components was the reformatting of the HAL Pilot Work Agreement. A huge project that consumed some 120 pages of HTML formatting. Other components included information from various ALPA committees and HAL 401(k) information with up-to-date fund pricing. As FCIS continues to grow, FTP servers will be available to download various forms, instructions and educational material that can be viewed with installed viewer software on most computer stations at work or at home. E-forms have been developed to facillitate communications with Hawaiian Management, ALPA leadership and its members. E-mail will be crossed platformed to be used by the membership for personal and work related information. These new technologies will bring new ways in which we interact with each other with more information, more timely information that is available 24 hours a day, anywhere in the world.

FCIS is produced under the banner of FCIS Productions and originally created by the first webmaster,  Mark Anderson, a pilot and the former PBS Development Coordinator for the airline who developed the initial concept in studies to bring on the demanding challenges of a Preferential Bidding System (PBS) to some 1,000 flight crew personnel. These concepts included multi-media interactive computer training that was identified as the most cost effective way to bring on this technology to the large mass of flight crew personnel requiring transformation to this computer bidding automation. Doug Richardson, another HAL Pilot was recruited to the program to assist in its development bringing programming and HTML formatting expertise to the project. Together, these two have extended an extraordinary amount of time to the project. They continue to work in various Union, Company and Internet related matters to make a difference in hopes their efforts will see new horizons in communications and productivity at our airline.

The FCIS Project wishes to thank the Airline Pilots Association and the HAL Pilot MEC for thier support.

Look for the FCIS at http://www.halpilot.com/