Decision software for aviation
ground handling and cargo

We have spent twenty years in aviation ground handling and cargo, and more than 500 stations now run on Cohelion to plan volumes, understand cost per turnaround, or defend margin at the negotiating table.

Trusted by the operators that move global aviation
Swissport
WFS
SATS
Air Cargo News Awards 2025 Our forecasting work with WFS won at the Air Cargo News Awards 2025.
The problem

Stop the race to the bottom, start proving your worth

The industry calls it a race to the bottom: contracts tighten, margins thin, and customers keep asking for more at a lower rate.

Meanwhile the value you deliver, the costs you control, the SLAs you hit, the disruptions you absorb, sits scattered across station systems, country spreadsheets, and quarter-end reports, which makes it very hard to defend a price you cannot measure.

Cohelion gives you those numbers per turnaround, per customer, and per station, in time to walk into the negotiation prepared.

The value you deliver
Buried where no one can find it
€842
per turnaround · SIN
finance.xlsx · sheet 12
99.4%
SLA · LH contract
country report · Q3
400
cost objects per TA
ABC model · station
500+
stations live
master list · v17
+12d
avg. close-the-books delay
group consolidation
−4.8%
cost vs plan · this week
shift dashboard
€118M
rolling 12mo revenue
cfo deck · slide 4
7,420
turnarounds this month
ops weekly · pdf
−18%
fuel agent variance · #4
anomaly · email thread
Real numbers. Trapped in station systems, country spreadsheets, and quarter-end reports.
Questions on every operator's desk

The questions you keep asking, and the answers we can give

These are the questions that decide a handling contract, and they land on the COO's, FP&A's, commercial, and data desks alike. Most operators cannot answer them with confidence.

Cohelion is built to answer every one of them.

  • FP&A What does it really cost to handle each flight or airline?
  • FP&A Which services are profitable, and which are quietly cross-subsidised?
  • COO Where can you improve efficiency or pricing without compromising service levels?
  • Commercial How much revenue leakage is buried in your delay codes?
  • Commercial What happens if you lose your biggest customer? What's the best price you can offer for a new one?
  • COO How do you reduce workforce idle time?
  • FP&A What does a 5% salary increase do to next year's plan?
  • CDO Who owns the golden record, and can you trace every number back to its source?
  • CDO How do you add a decision layer without creating yet another data silo?
What Cohelion is

Four products, one decision layer, yours to combine

Cohelion gives you four purpose-built data products for aviation services. Most customers start with Forecasting or Cost Analysis, the two that pay for themselves first, and expand from there.

They sit on top of the systems you already run, SAP, Oracle, Workday, AMOS, your scheduling and TMS, and the data platform that holds them together: Azure, Snowflake, Databricks. We don't replace your stack; we put 20 years of ground handling expertise on top of it.

Start here

Forecasting

Machine-learning forecasts
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Cost Analysis

Activity-based costing
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Performance Manager

Operational reporting
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Master Data Management

One source of truth
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Sits on top of
The systems and data you already run
SAP · Oracle · Workday · AMOS · Azure · Snowflake · Databricks
The compounding effect

Combined, they give you things no single tool can

Each product earns its keep on its own, but when you combine two or three of them you get a named outcome that no off-the-shelf suite can match.

FCAI-based forecasting, integrated in workflow + CADeep cost analysis using Activity-Based Costing
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Disruption Modelling

What is the impact of the US-Iran war on our revenue this year?

Model the financial impact of a strike, embargo, war, or geopolitical shock before it hits your P&L.

PMPerformance Manager, self-service BI platform + MDMMulti-domain Master Data Management unifies your data
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SLA Management

Where can you improve efficiency without compromising service levels?

Monitor and prove SLA performance per customer and station, with one definition of 'on time' across the network.

CADeep cost analysis using Activity-Based Costing + MDMMulti-domain Master Data Management unifies your data
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Profitability Analysis

What if you lose your biggest customer? Which services are quietly cross-subsidised?

Real margin per customer, station, and contract, costs and revenue brought together, automatically.

PMPerformance Manager, self-service BI platform + FCAI-based forecasting, integrated in workflow
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Bottom-up Budgeting

What does a 5% salary increase do to next year's plan?

Build the annual budget station by station, customer by customer, rolling up to the number leadership signs.

PMPerformance Manager, self-service BI platform + CADeep cost analysis using Activity-Based Costing
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Dynamic Pricing

How do you reduce workforce idle time?

Price peak and off-peak slots differently. Airlines shift toward your quieter times, and your idle hours become commercial leverage.

PMPerformance Manager, self-service BI platform + CADeep cost analysis using Activity-Based Costing + MDMMulti-domain Master Data Management unifies your data
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M&A Audit

Is the station you're acquiring really as profitable as the seller says?

Deep operational and cost insights into a target station in weeks, not months. Predefined master data templates accelerate every step.

Where it earns its keep

Applied AI, with twenty years of aviation services behind it

We do not sell AI as a product. It runs inside all four, each time on your own governed data and always in a form your teams can audit.

Natural-language interface

Ask, instead of requesting a report

An answer that used to mean a report request, a BI specialist or a support ticket now takes seconds. One question box covers the data, how a process works, and the user manual, in whatever language the user thinks in.

“Why was LH lossmaking in Nov 2025?”
Performance Manager
Anomaly detection

Anomalies that find you

A multi-dimensional scan across stations, customers, services and shifts surfaces the patterns that no dashboard filter would catch, while they are still small enough to act on.

“Cleaning costs are rising in Terminal 3 on night flights.”
Cost Analysis
Machine learning

Forecasts trained on your own history

Bottom-up models per station and customer, learned from your seasonality, contracts and disruption patterns rather than a network-wide average. Back-tested to 95% accuracy every close.

“Expect 22% increase in volumes at start of Ramadan season.”
Forecasting
Detect inconsistencies

Conflicting definitions detected

Smart AI algorithms harmonise data across your application landscape.

“According to SAP, warehouse XYZ has 21,000 sqm, while on the cargo handling system it has 24,000 sqm.”
Master Data Management
Fits your stack

We sit on top of the systems you already run

Cohelion connects to the operational, financial, and workforce systems that already run your network, SAP, Oracle, Workday, AMOS, AODB, your scheduling and turnaround platforms, and to the data infrastructure that holds it all together: Azure, Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, your data lake.

Rather than replacing your platform or migrating your data, we bring twenty years of aviation-services expertise to the systems and the data you already have.

Your data stays in your own lake or warehouse under your access controls, and every figure we show carries its lineage back to the source system and field. What this means for your data office →

Cohelion · Decision layer
Performance · MDM · Forecasting · Cost Analysis
Your source systems
SAP Finance · ERP
Oracle Finance · ERP
Workday Workforce
AMOS Maintenance
AODB Airport ops
INFORM Resource mgmt
Sabre Scheduling
Your TMS Turnaround
Your data infrastructure
Azure
Snowflake
Databricks
BigQuery
Data lake
No migration · no platform switch · IT validates, business gets answers.
How we work

Your own numbers in six weeks, without an SAP-style programme

We start with the full application configured on your own data, so you judge it against your numbers rather than a demo. That takes six weeks in the straightforward case, three months typically. Connecting it to your source systems for a daily refresh comes after, once you have decided to go ahead.

There is no migration, no platform switch and no year of consultants before anything works. Every stage below is defined before we start, so you know what happens in each week and who is needed for it.

  1. 01 Week 1
    Scope

    One workshop with ops and finance to pick the first station and the first decision to improve.

  2. 02 Weeks 1-2
    Import

    Read-only connections to the systems that already hold your schedules, rosters, contracts and ledger.

  3. 03 Weeks 2-3
    Map

    Your codes and hierarchies harmonised against a model this sector already fits.

  4. 04 Weeks 3-5
    Validate

    Your controllers reconcile against the ledger until they trust the numbers.

  5. 05 Week 6
    Working application

    The full application on your own data, in the hands of the people running the shift. Go or no-go from here.

  6. 06 Month 2-3
    Connect and go live

    Interfaces to your source systems for a daily refresh, then station by station on a path we have walked 500+ times.

6 wk to your own numbers
3 mo typical implementation
0 systems replaced
500+ stations already through it
Case studies

What changed for three global networks

Three of the five largest ground-services networks in the world run on Cohelion, each of them starting from a different problem.

SATS

Unlocking the true profit potential

Activity-Based Costing for below-wing operations, with 70% of cost allocated directly to a flight.

"…eager for the future defined by data-driven operations, that will sharpen our costs and commercial negotiations."
Ranjiv RamanathanGlobal Head of Special Projects · SATS
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WFS

Workforce optimisation across EMEAA

94.6% forecast accuracy at station-customer level across a 225-station network.

"Data-driven decision-making, powered by Cohelion, has become a core component of how we adapt to market challenges."
Pedro GarciaCIO EMEAA · WFS
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Swissport

A single source of truth across 312 stations

One standard for every process and KPI, maintained by a central team of four.

"…contribute greatly to the acceptance of the data on all levels in the organisation."
Philipp MüllerHead of Global Performance & Analytics · Swissport
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Let's talk

Let's talk about the decisions you can't make today

Book a 30-minute conversation. We will show you Cohelion running on a dataset close to yours.