- Safety Insight will accelerate Korean Air’s innovation, supporting its future expansion and growth.
- Korean Air will leverage Safety Insight tools to scale, streamline and enhance its flight data analytic operations such as Flight Data Monitoring, Flight Operations Quality Assurance, Flight Operation Engineering, and Predictive Maintenance.
Austin, TX -- July 18, 2024 – GE Aerospace today announced a significant new Safety Insight contract with South Korea's leading global airline, Korean Air. This strategic partnership underscores Korean Air's commitment to enhancing safety, efficiency, and operational excellence by utilizing GE Aerospace’s industry-leading Flight Data Monitoring system across the company.
Safety Insight will empower Korean Air and its leading low-cost carrier, Jin Air, to enhance safety protocols and operational effectiveness through advanced analytics, automation, and high-speed processing of big data with high fidelity and quality. GE Aerospace’s Event Measurement System (EMS) and Flight Analytics solutions will further enable the airline to refine operational practices, manage data flow across its operations, and process thousands of flights in minutes—a task that previously took up to a half day to complete.
As Korean Air expands the use of its Full Flight Data for diagnostics, operational analysis, and improved flight training, GE Aerospace’s Aviation Insight Portal will provide intuitive visibility and understanding of fleet status, data availability and simplified data sharing across the company to enable high value activities critical to its operational safety, efficiency and reliability.
At Waypoint, GE Aerospace’s customer event in Singapore.
“By partnering with GE Aerospace, we are confident that our flight operations are equipped with top-tier software solutions capable of performing at a large scale,” said Do Kun Kim, Vice President and Head of Corporate Aviation Security Strategy, Korean Air. “Their alignment with our growth objectives and shared commitment to safety and excellence made them a natural partner."
"For over half a century, Korean Air has set the highest standard for excellence in global aviation. We are proud that our Safety Insight solutions will enable Korean Air to leverage their flight data to achieve even greater safety and operational performance," said Andrew Coleman, General Manager, GE Aerospace, Software as a Service.
About Korean Air:
Serving the world for more than 55 years, Korean Air is one of the world's top 20 airlines, carrying more than 27 million passengers in 2019, pre-COVID. With its global hub at Incheon International Airport (ICN), the airline serves 110 cities in 39 countries on five continents with a modern fleet of 159 aircraft and over 20,000 professional employees.
Korean Air's outstanding performance and commitment to the highest level of safety and customer service has widely been recognized. The airline has been granted numerous awards including a 5-star airline rating from Skytrax as well as Air Transport World’s Airline of the Year and Cargo Operator of the Year awards.
Korean Air is a founding member of the SkyTeam airline alliance and has grown into one of the largest transpacific airlines through its joint venture with Delta Air Lines. For more information about Korean Air, please visit www.koreanair.com, Korean Air Newsroom, facebook.com/KoreanAir, instagram.com/KoreanAirworld/, and Twitter@KoreanAir_KE.
About GE Aerospace:
GE Aerospace is a world-leading provider of jet engines, components and systems for commercial and military aircraft with a global service network to support these offerings. GE Aerospace and its joint ventures have an installed base of more than 40,000 commercial and 26,000 military aircraft engines, and the business is playing a vital role in shaping the future of flight.
GE Aerospace software solutions put aviation data to work with products and services that empower airlines to run robust and resilient operations. Flight Ops, Tech Ops, and Maintenance and Reliability Analytics solutions from GE Aerospace, Software as a Service help aircraft operators enhance safety & efficiency, reduce operational disruptions, improve passenger experience, and make better decisions regarding real-time fleet health. Today, GE Aerospace Flight Analytics solutions supports over 17,000 aircraft and 40,000 pilots with FlightPulse pilot application. For more information, visit us at www.GEAerospace.com/systems/saas.