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Kenya Airways chooses GE Aviation for digital solutions

&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Kenya Airways&comma; &nbsp&semi;a member of the Sky Team Alliance and &nbsp&semi;leading African airline flying to 55&NewLine;destinations worldwide&comma; has chosen General Electric Aviation for the Flight&NewLine;Operations suite of digital products across the airline’s fleet of Boeing 737&comma;&NewLine;787 and Embraer E190 airplanes&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Kenya Airway’s fleet adds to the 15&comma;468&NewLine;unique aircraft assets that are connected to GE Aviation’s digital&NewLine;solutions&period;&nbsp&semi;Implementation is currently underway with completion this year&period;&NewLine;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;<br>&NewLine;<br>&NewLine;In a press release by APO Group &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Kenya Airways was looking for a way to monitor&NewLine;fleet performance&comma; implement and track fuel saving initiatives across their&NewLine;network and empower their pilots to help drive efficiency&comma;” said John&NewLine;Mansfield&comma; chief digital officer for GE Aviation at the signing ceremony held&NewLine;on June 18<sup>th<&sol;sup>&nbsp&semi;at the Paris Air Show&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">&nbsp&semi;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Flight Operations suite&NewLine;provides these insights and is scalable to provide additional functionality&period;”<br>&NewLine;<br>&NewLine;The Flight Operations suite integrates GE’s Event Measurement System &lpar;EMS&rpar;&comma;&NewLine;flight analytics&comma; FlightPulse and fuel efficiency services&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">GE’s EMS and FOQA systems are being&NewLine;used on 8&comma;932 aircraft including flight analytics service integrating data&NewLine;sources like flight information&comma; weather&comma; navigation&comma; flight plans&comma; and other&NewLine;operational data to provide valuable insights for airline customers around fuel&NewLine;use and operations&period; Kenya Airway’s 425 pilots add to the 57&comma;702-airline crew&NewLine;relying on GE Aviation’s Network Crew Optimization&period;<br>&NewLine;<br>&NewLine;Paul Njoroge&comma; director of operations&comma; Kenya Airways said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The partnership with&NewLine;GE Aviation will empower Kenya Airways to optimise its fuel costs and excel in&NewLine;flight operations&period;&nbsp&semi;GE brings a wealth of knowledge to help the airline&NewLine;fast track efficiencies enabling improvements in operations and customer&NewLine;experience&period;”<br>&NewLine;<br>&NewLine;Clare Ward&comma; chief information officer&comma; Kenya Airways&comma; noted that the airline&NewLine;chose GE Aviation because of its leadership and innovation in flight analytics&NewLine;and deep aviation experience&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;By partnering with GE&comma; Kenya Airways is&NewLine;accelerating the move to leading edge technologies in analytics and machine&NewLine;learning&comma;” she said&period;<br>&NewLine;<br>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Our aim is to help Kenya Airways reduce their multi-million-dollar fuel bill&NewLine;and increase their overall efficiency&comma; said Mansfield&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The fidelity in our&NewLine;flight analytics&comma; together with the team’s experience from analyzing more than&NewLine;175 million flights&comma; will enable Kenya Airways to better manage operations with&NewLine;data-driven solutions&period; We are bringing together analytics with physical assets&NewLine;to help significantly reduce cost&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph"><br>&NewLine;GE Aviation&comma; an operating unit of General Electric&comma; is a world-leading provider&NewLine;of commercial and military jet engines&comma; avionics&comma; digital solutions and&NewLine;electrical power systems for aircraft&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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