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A Flight Of Fancy: Qantas Jet Flies Non-Stop From Australia To London For The First Time, Powered By GE

Dorothy Pomerantz
March 24, 2018
In the 1940s, it took a Qantas flight more than four days and seven stops to fly from Australia to London. A Qantas jet can now cover the same distance in 17 hours and 20 minutes, flying nonstop for the first time.
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A world-first app for Qantas pilots

Jane Nicholls
October 29, 2017
Aviation is arguably the most advanced of all data-driven industries, collecting terabytes of data from the thousands of aircraft circling the globe and carefully organising and constantly analysing it in the pursuit of safety and efficiency.
Big data reveals insights to drive the Industrial Internet, but small data has impressive powers of persuasion, too.
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This Big-Data Firm Wants To Stop Flight Delays And Other Maddening Airline Problems

Maggie Sieger
October 25, 2017
The scene plays out on Oct. 15 at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, dull, annoying and all too routine. A gate agent announces the flight to St. Louis will be delayed. The crew has to summon a new plane because of a failed part. The passengers groan resignedly. Finally, 90 minutes later, the departure.
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When A Qantas Pilot Asks, "Am I Making A Difference?" FlightPulse Has An Answer

Amy Kover
September 20, 2017
Like many large companies, Qantas, the Australian national carrier, has been looking for ways to become more sustainable. The airline has been introducing new lightweight freight containers to cut fuel consumption, investing in electric-powered ground vehicles, and replacing lighting in all of its operational areas with energy-efficient LEDs. But when it wanted to cut its carbon footprint even more, the solution came in large part from one of the airline’s most treasured assets: its pilots.
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Vaguely yours, Beth Comstock

May 24, 2017
In a business world that’s used to implementing successful formulas, how do we make room for discovery? Beth Comstock, Vice Chair of GE has called on her initial training as a biologist, to explain how company cultures can use the idea of emergent properties to allow new and adaptive patterns of operation to form.
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Australia's change-makers Decoding Industry

April 13, 2017
A king tide of data, workplace change and how to leverage technology for future prosperity were the themes of GE’s Decoding Industry event held at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art this week. Ten thought-provoking speakers engaged with 200 leaders from aviation, healthcare, resources, energy, and tech, to negotiate the gap between right now and accelerated innovation.
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Fighting fire with fire: carbon offsets in the North Kimberley

December 09, 2016
In early 2014 four North Kimberley native-title groups registered fire-management businesses under the Carbon Farming Initiative. Since then they have generated some 400,000 Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) through traditional methods that burn vegetation early in the growth season, to prevent fierce high-summer wildfires.
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Qantas and GE on the flight path to sustainability

December 01, 2016
Two innovative corporations are better, bigger and more influential in solving global problems than one. GE today became a foundation partner in the Qantas Future Planet Partnership, which aims to both reduce and offset carbon emissions and encourage wider participation in a sustainable future.
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Qantas’s top 5 takeouts from Minds + Machines 2016

November 19, 2016
As Murray Adams, manager of operations, analytics and reporting at Qantas walked back through the great tech hall of Minds + Machines 2016, last Friday on his way to dinner in San Francisco before hopping a flying kangaroo for Sydney, he checked for: tickets, passport and valuable takeouts from the two-day festival of digital-industrial ideas and insights.
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GE, Qantas—mining data for gold in Texas

October 07, 2016
Qantas and GE recently accelerated a decades-long, uplifting relationship into the digital-industrial cloud; the Flight Efficiency Services agreement, signed in September 2015, is already delivering on GE’s promise to increase the airline’s operational flexibility and fuel efficiency while reducing its carbon emissions.
This week marks the opening of a new frontier in the companies’ innovative alliance as Qantas becomes the launch partner in GE’s latest collaboration centre in Austin, Texas.
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