Software Management Solutions & Consultancy for Airport Ground Handling Operations
| Company | Avtura Ltd. |
|---|---|
| Date | 20.07.2011 |
More than half (60%) of arrivals at Heathrow Airport are caught up in holding patterns above London, wasting fuel worth £119,000 per day. Figures compiled by UK air traffic control service NATS have revealed that jets circling for a cumulative 55 hours a day are discharging 600t of CO2 into the skies above London.
Heathrow runs well for 300 days of the year, while 50 days prove very difficult and 15 are a complete disaster, the NATS report estimated. Heathrow is dubbed the busiest international airport in the world with just two runways and 476,000 flights a year.
Improved performance at the airport on the ground could significantly improve these figures. For too long ground handling and aircraft turnaround has been a neglected area of the airline industry with outdated and outmoded paper processes still in place where technology could make a significant improvement in efficiency, effectiveness and performance management.
Now Avtura’s Real-time Aircraft Turnaround Tool (RATT™) makes that leap possible for airlines, ground handling companies and airports to improve operational, strategic and performance management, review and improve ground handling processes, reduce the environmental impact of airport ground operations and reduce costs.
RATT™ and M-CDM™ allows for collaborative decision making (CDM) which delivers significant benefits operationally, strategically and environmentally to the industry but most importantly cost savings. Figures show that a 10% improvement in OTP across Europe could bring a cost benefit of somewhere in the region of $400 – 600 million a year.
Avtura are convinced that RATT™ and M-CDM™ will bring at least a 10% improvement in ground time performance and hence OTP. It is also stated that most airlines are carrying somewhere between $125 – 500 million in annual delay costs.
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