Case Study: Transavia France achieves in-flight fuel savings with OpenAirlines SkyBreathe® OnBoard

How and why combining historical and real-time AID data triggers new in-flight optimization levers through the EFBs

Transavia France, the low-cost airline of the Air France-KLM group, was seeking to improve fuel efficiency and reduce CO2 emissions further. A key challenge was optimizing cockpit operations in real-time, specifically by increasing the application rate of the Single Engine Taxi-in procedure, while ensuring pilots could focus on their primary task of flying safely. The airline partnered with vendor OpenAirlines to implement its SkyBreathe® OnBoard application, which was designed to provide real-time, data-driven assistance to pilots via their Electronic Flight Bags (EFBs).

The solution from OpenAirlines, SkyBreathe® OnBoard, delivered real-time pop-up notifications to pilots, taking into account numerous operational parameters to determine the optimal and safe moment to initiate a single-engine taxi. This required minimal input from pilots, adhering to a zero-input philosophy to reduce cognitive load. The implementation successfully increased both the rate and quality of the procedure's application. OpenAirlines' solution helped Transavia capture an incremental fuel saving of 5 kg per flight, building on the existing savings from their long-standing fuel efficiency program.

Transavia

Captain Emmanuel de Norman

Deputy Chief Pilot