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SUSTAINABLE AVIATION

riginal Equipment Manufac-
Oturers (OEMs) can utilize IATA
FuelIS to assess the fuel efficiency of
their aircraft or engines relative to
industry benchmarks. This enables
them to derive insights tailored to
IATA unveils various markets, regions, countries,
and fleet types using authentic op-
FuelIS, an erational data, thus aiding customers
in maximizing the effectiveness of
their products.
Advanced Key Features of FuelIS Include: mark their fuel performance against
aggregated industry data, airlines
fuel efficiency Ó Fleet Fuel Efficiency Assessment: can understand where they excel and
where they need to take action.”
The fuel efficiency of various
aircraft types for different regions
analytics and times can be analyzed by Data Accuracy and Reliability
IATA FuelIS uses data from the IATA
comparing fuel burn per Opera-
tional Tonne-Kilometer (OTK) with Global Aviation Data Management
solution Ó Airport Benchmarking Analysis: (GADM) system. This data is sourced
industry averages.
from the Flight Data eXchange (FDX)
Fuel quantity at landing can be program which now comprises fuel
IATA has launched FuelIS, an measured for aircraft. This can be data from 215 airlines worldwide,
sufficient to ensure the highest level
benchmarked against the aggre-
analytics solution to optimize airline gated fuel quantities of all other of accuracy in the insights that can
fuel consumption using aggregated airlines landing at the same airport. be derived.
and anonymized flight and fuel data. Nick Careen, IATA Senior Vice Presi- Supporting Better Performance
dent Operations, Safety and Security, Fuel presently accounts for almost
said “IATA FuelIS is a robust analytical one-third of an airline’s operational
tool for airlines to make both strategic expenses. Since 2005, IATA has col-
and operational decisions to optimize laborated with airlines to pinpoint
fuel consumption, reduce fuel costs, opportunities for fuel savings. IATA
and improve environmental perfor- FuelIS will continue to bolster this
mance. By enabling airlines to bench- objective

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