GE Aviation to provide flight analytics solution to ANA

GE Aviation has signed a contract, to provide Flight Analytics, with All Nippon Airways. Flight Analytics will help improve fuel efficiency based on an analysis of flight data. This is the first-time GE is providing digital solutions tothe Japanese market. ANA operates more than 1,000 international and domestic flights every day, and its fuel-related cost totaled approximately JPY300bn (US$2.6bn) for the fiscal year of 2015. The introduction of GE’s Flight Analytics has the potential to reduce the airline’s fuel cost up to 1% annually. Analyzing flight data via flight analytics makes it possible to keep track of fuel consumption over the course of the entire flight-from takeoff to landing-and can provide support to pilots on how to efficiently operate aircraft. The solution generates data including appropriate amount of fuel that needs to be stored on board. This enables airlines to improve operational flexibility.