Kenya Airways and GE Aviation Sign Digital Flight Operations Agreement
July 01 2019 - 11:12AM
Business Wire
Maximizing Airline Efficiency with the Most
Accurate Data and Analytics
Kenya Airways adds to the 15,468 aircraft with
GE Aviation’s digital solutions
Kenya Airways has selected GE Aviation for the
Flight Operations suite of digital products across the airline’s
fleet of Boeing 737, 787 and Embraer E190 airplanes. Kenya Airway’s
fleet adds to the 15,468 unique aircraft assets that are connected
to GE Aviation’s digital solutions. Implementation is currently
underway with completion this year.
“Kenya Airways was looking for a way to monitor fleet
performance, implement and track fuel saving initiatives across
their network and empower their pilots to help drive efficiency,”
said John Mansfield, chief digital officer for GE Aviation. “The
Flight Operations suite provides these insights and is scalable to
provide additional functionality.”
The Flight Operations suite integrates GE’s Event Measurement
System (EMS), flight analytics, FlightPulse™ and fuel efficiency
services. GE’s EMS and FOQA systems are being used on 8,932
aircraft including flight analytics service integrating data
sources like flight information, weather, navigation, flight plans,
and other operational data to provide valuable insights for airline
customers around fuel use and operations. Kenya Airway will add to
the 57,702-airline crew relying on GE Aviation’s Network Crew
Optimization.
Paul Njoroge, director of operations, Kenya Airways said, “The
partnership with GE Aviation will empower Kenya Airways to optimise
its fuel costs and excel in flight operations. GE brings a wealth
of knowledge to help the airline fast track efficiencies enabling
improvements in operations and customer experience.”
Clare Ward, chief information officer, Kenya Airways, noted that
the airline chose GE Aviation because of its leadership and
innovation in flight analytics and deep aviation experience. “By
partnering with GE, Kenya Airways is accelerating the move to
leading edge technologies in analytics and machine learning,” she
said.
“Our aim is to help Kenya Airways reduce their
multi-million-dollar fuel bill and increase their overall
efficiency, said Mansfield. “The fidelity in our flight analytics,
together with the team’s experience from analyzing more than 175
million flights, will enable Kenya Airways to better manage
operations with data-driven solutions. We are bringing together
analytics with physical assets to help significantly reduce
cost.”
About Kenya Airways
Kenya Airways, a member of the Sky Team Alliance, is a leading
African airline flying to 55 destinations worldwide, 43 of which
are in Africa and carries over four million passengers annually. It
continues to modernize its fleet with its 33 aircraft being some of
the youngest in Africa. This includes its flagship B787 Dreamliner
aircraft. The on-board service is renowned and the lie-flat
business class seat on the wide-body aircraft is consistently voted
among the world’s top 10. Kenya Airways takes pride for being in
the forefront of connecting Africa to the World and the World to
Africa through its hub at the new ultra-modern Terminal 1A at the
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi. Kenya Airways
celebrated 42 years of operations in January 2018 and was named
Africa Leading Airline 2018 by the World Travel Awards. For more
information, please visit www.kenya-airways.com
About GE Aviation
GE Aviation, an operating unit of GE (NYSE: GE), is a
world-leading provider of commercial and military jet engines,
avionics, digital solutions and electrical power systems for
aircraft. GE is the world's Digital Industrial Company,
transforming industry with software-defined machines and solutions
that are connected, responsive and predictive. With people,
services, technology and scale, GE delivers better outcomes for
customers by speaking the language of industry.
www.geaviation.com/digital
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Jennifer Villarrreal +1 616 241 8643 jennifer.villarreal3@ge.com
Dennis Kashero dennis.kashero@kenya-airways.com
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