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Lido Flight Planning
Professional airline flight planning solution
As of 1 September 2026, Lido Flight Planning starts at $40000/year. Lido Flight Planning is an advanced flight planning system used by major airlines and dispatch centers worldwide. Softwr lists it under Aviation. Lido Flight Planning is made by Lido (Lufthansa Systems), launched in 1987, available on Web, Windows.
Overview
What Lido Flight Planning does
Lido Flight Planning is an advanced flight planning system used by major airlines and dispatch centers worldwide. It provides optimal route calculation, performance data, weight and balance, and fuel planning. Integrated with weather data and real-time ATC information, it enables efficient flight operations.
What people use it for
- Generating optimal flight routes and profiles that Air Traffic Control will accept
- Automating airline flight planning against weather, NOTAMs, AIP, ATM restrictions and ATC charges
- Supporting pre-operational flight planning from a web application
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Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Lido Flight Planning.
- Pricing is by quote only, with no rate, minimum or named cost driver published on the product page
- Pre-operational planning is a separately named application, Lido Flight 4D Pre-Planning, rather than part of the core flight planning product
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Pricing
What Lido Flight Planning costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Standard
$40,000 /yr
- Route planning
- Performance data
- Weather integration
- ATC coordination
Enterprise
$80,000 /yr
- Multi-fleet
- Advanced optimization
- Custom integration
- Priority support
Capabilities
Features
Route optimization
Fuel planning
Performance data
Weight & balance
Cost calculation
Weather services
Integration with Weather services
Airline systems
Integration with Airline systems
Crew systems
Integration with Crew systems
Accounting
Integration with Accounting
EFB solutions
Integration with EFB solutions
SOC 2 certified
SOC 2 certified security feature
Data encryption
Data encryption security feature
Behind it
Who makes Lido Flight Planning
- Company
- Lido (Lufthansa Systems)
- Based in
- Munich, Germany
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