Kenya Airways, GE Seal Deal

Kenya Airways has selected GE Aviation for its flight operations’ digital products across the airline’ s fleet of Boeing 737,787 and Em brae rE 190 airplanes. Kenya Air way’ 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 em power their pilots to help drive efficiency ,” said, chief digital officer for GE Aviation, John Mansfield. “The Flight Operations suite provides these insights and is scalable to provide additional functionality,” he added. 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’s 425 pilots add to the 57,702-airline crew relying on GE Aviation’s Network Crew Optimization. Director of operations, Kenya Airways, Paul Njoroge, said, “The partnership with GE Aviation will empower Kenya Air way stoop timi se 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.” ClareWard, 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.