Pilots for Emirates, the Dubai-based air carrier, have always flown straight. Now they’re going to fly “smart,” too: Emirates is adopting a GE Aviation data and analytics platform that will allow airline analysts and pilots to understand how their planes are operating with a high degree of precision, accuracy and automation.
Before boarding a flight, a passenger will likely use their phone to show their ticket, send some last-minute emails and maybe even download a movie for the trip. We take it for granted that digital technology, everywhere we go, is making our lives infinitely easier.
GE Aviation and Qantas have a great buddy act going.
AirAsia, one of the world’s fastest-growing airlines, is all about trendsetting. By introducing affordable air travel to Asia in 2001, its co-founder and group CEO Anthony “Tony” Fernandes morphed a little-known airline with two aircraft into one that commands a fleet of more than 200 and an army of more than 20,000 employees, and carried more than 70 million passengers last year alone.
Big data reveals insights to drive the Industrial Internet, but small data has impressive powers of persuasion, too.