Cirium Launches First Phase of Satellite-Based Aircraft Maintenance Tracking

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Cirium has launched its new Ground Events feature within the Ascend Profiles module, a first for the aviation industry. This satellite-based tracking tool allows businesses to monitor and predict aircraft maintenance events, enhancing decision-making capabilities. The feature captures critical data including aircraft maintenance history, registration, and duration of ground events. Notably, it showcases examples like Air France's cabin redesign of 15 Airbus A330s and FedEx's strategic fleet optimization during the pandemic.

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• Launch of Ground Events feature enhances aircraft maintenance tracking.
• Enables businesses to optimize maintenance budgets and strategies.
• Provides detailed insights into aircraft transitions and maintenance history.

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• The new Ascend Profiles’ Ground Events feature is Cirium’s first phase to enable the aviation industry to monitor and predict future aircraft maintenance events
• Using the feature businesses can identify when an aircraft has been re-painted, received a cabin redesign or had a maintenance check
• The feature shows how Air France redesigned 15 Airbus A330 cabins, Lufthansa re-activated retired Airbus A340s, and FedEx maximized their fleet to meet cargo demand

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Cirium has revealed today the aviation industry’s first satellite-based aircraft maintenance tracking feature in its Ascend Profiles module.

Cirium's new Ground Events feature shows how Air France redesigned the cabins of all 15 of its Airbus A330 fleet. (Photo: Business Wire)

Its new Ground Events feature enables aircraft and engine manufacturers, maintenance, repair and overhaul service providers, parts suppliers, lessors and insurers to monitor and predict future aircraft maintenance events.

This means businesses can better understand when and where an aircraft last had a maintenance event and forecast its next visit.

It also helps to identify aircraft transitions and define strategies around how and where maintenance and aftermarket budgets are being allocated by operators or owners.

Jeremy Bowen, CEO at Cirium said: “We are innovators and constantly looking to surface new ideas to empower the aviation industry.

“By tracking each Ground Event of an airline’s aircraft, we can identify whether it was for redesigned cabins, new aircraft branding, a maintenance event, or for its return to service.”

The first phase of the new Ground Events feature captures all instances when aircraft spend over seven days on the ground and identifies the aircraft registration, airport, arrival date and time, departure date and time, ground event duration (in days) and aircraft age. For specific airlines the feature showcases the types of maintenance activity and the provider.

The new feature demonstrates the power of combining Cirium’s unrivaled fleets and advanced satellite-based flight tracking data with the MRO locations and MRO relationships data.

In one example, it shows Air France has been redesigning the cabin interiors of all 15 of their Airbus A330 fleet to match the interiors of their A350 aircraft.

This reflects the carrier’s focus on enhancing the passenger experience and benefitted the airline when air travel started to return post the COVID-19 lockdowns. All 15 A330s were ready to return to service with the new interiors installed in July 2020.

Meanwhile, the feature shows how Lufthansa returned five of their Airbus A340s, which were due for retirement, back into service as the pandemic impacted the deliveries of new aircraft.

It further records how the airline partnered with IAC in Dublin to repaint the A340s in the new Lufthansa livery and regular maintenance checks were conducted by Lufthansa Technik Malta, Lufthansa Technik Philippines, and Joramco.

Given the increased demand during the pandemic for the shipment of PPE and the rise of ecommerce, Cirium’s Ground Events data shows how Federal Express (FedEx) were able to maximize their fleet and leverage strong relationships with their maintenance provider. FedEx ramped up their cargo flights, utilizing young aircraft – around one-to-eight years old – and maintained a consistent two-year maintenance cycle.

The Ground Events feature is part of the Ascend Profiles User Interface (UI) which visualizes aircraft intelligence of airline and lessor profiles and provides quick insights around aircraft types, airport locations, OEMs, MROs and more. The is available as an app and works across desktop, mobile and tablet. Find out more.

About Cirium
Cirium brings together powerful data and analytics to keep the world moving. Delivering insight, built from decades of experience in the sector, enabling travel companies, aircraft manufacturers, airports, airlines and financial institutions, among others, to make logical and informed decisions which shape the future of travel, growing revenues and enhancing customer experiences. Cirium is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. The shares of RELX PLC are traded on the London, Amsterdam and New York Stock Exchanges using the following ticker symbols: London: REL; Amsterdam: REN; New York: RELX.

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FAQ

What is the new Ground Events feature by Cirium?

Cirium's Ground Events feature allows the aviation industry to track and predict future aircraft maintenance events using satellite data.

How does the Ground Events feature benefit airlines?

The feature helps airlines optimize their maintenance budgets and better understand aircraft usage and maintenance history.

What significant examples are highlighted in the Ground Events feature?

It highlights Air France's redesign of 15 Airbus A330 cabins and FedEx's fleet optimization during the pandemic.

Who is the parent company of Cirium?

Cirium is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics.

On which stock exchanges is RELX traded?

RELX shares are traded on the London, Amsterdam, and New York Stock Exchanges.