AVTECH enters into an agreement with airberlin on the Aventus NowCast Full Flight solution

AVTECH Sweden AB today announces that the Company has entered into an agreement with Air Berlin related to the implementation of AVTECH’s Aventus NowCast Full Flight solution for airberlin’s operations into and between Berlin, Zurich, Antalya and Palma. The agreement is planned to run for two months, during which a joint analysis will be executed within airberlin’s operations between and at these four airports, in turn forming the basis for subsequent negotiations on potential long term delivery of the service to airberlin’s network, involving approximately 140 airports throughout the world.

The Aventus Full Flight service will provide Air Berlin with highly accurate and up to date wind information tailored to each flights own trajectory. Information received from Aventus will allow the aircrafts flight computers to receive and utilize more exact information leading to better on board predictions which in turn will provide fuel savings to the airline. Aventus will also provide other benefits such as more accurate time predictions and crew workload reduction.
The agreement has an insignificant direct contract value being an evaluation contract.
“Having airberlin as the Company’s first Full Flight Aventus customer represents an important milestone within the Aventus service line and the Company as a whole. Besides the important step to implement a solution that covers the full flight envelope of customer flights we are excited to work with such a renowned airline as airberlin, who is also a pioneer in the area of eco-efficient flying”, says Ryan Ellison, Senior Vice President Aventus NowCast.

The Aventus NowCast™ system is a unique and patented system that enables accurate wind information and/or 4-Dimensional Trajectories for flights, making use of the very best in atmospheric modeling combined with weather information (AMDAR and/or TAMDAR) to create high resolution wind models and wind data packages for the different segments of a flight; a so called NowCast. Data packages are uplinked to aircraft to enable the onboard Flight Management Systems (FMS) to accurately calculate an optimized flight profile and the actual time when each waypoint of a flight will be reached. The immediate benefits of Aventus NowCast are airline fuel and CO2 savings, i.e. the solution is highly environmentally friendly. Aventus is also imperative for aviation wide Time-based operations, which is an area where the solution provides even larger overall financial and environmental benefits through the provision of increased efficiency and punctuality of individual flights and of the air transport system as a whole.