Sensis to Provide Aerobahn Service For Continental Airlines at Houston Intercontinental
Enables More Effective Management of Airside Operations
EAST SYRACUSE, NY – February 14, 2007 – Sensis Corporation announced that another member of the SkyTeam, Continental Airlines, will subscribe to its Aerobahn® Service which integrates data from multiple sources, providing seamless airside operations. Continental will use TaxiView™, OpsView™, and QuickView™, flagship products of Sensis Aerobahn, at Intercontinental Airport, Houston (IAH). With nearly 800 daily departures, IAH is the world’s 6th busiest airport in terms of aircraft movements. At IAH, Aerobahn will be a vital tool in decreasing taxi-times on runways, leading to significant cost savings.
“Sensis’ web-based service approach gives us a valuable tool for reducing taxi times at one of our key hubs,” said Mark Moran, Executive Vice President of Operations, Continental Airlines. “The efficient management of traffic flows on the ground is an essential component to achieving our current corporate financial and operational objectives, and positioning the airline for continued success.”
The web-based Aerobahn service collects a variety of operational flight data in real-time, including surveillance data from Sensis MDS, and transforms the data into valuable information for airline and airport operators. TaxiView’s real-time display improves situational awareness which facilitates more proactive management of the pushbacks on the ramp by ramp controllers who often cannot see aircraft taxiing on the ground, particularly in thunderstorms or other adverse weather conditions. OpsView’s powerful post-analysis capabilities empowers users to identify trends and areas for potential efficiency and capacity gains by reviewing operational events graphically and correlating the visual picture with comprehensive data that is available in sophisticated reports and queries. QuickView permits users to quickly and accurately access the status of airfield operations by providing a real-time summary of the status of arrival and departure aircraft. QuickView also provides the capability to configure thresholds and visually alert users when an aircraft meets or exceeds the defined threshold.
“Aerobahn will provide our Ramp Controllers with an improved level of real-time aircraft status information enabling more informed, more effective tactical decisions regarding traffic flows into and out of the ramp area, and enable us to narrow the variance between the optimum taxi time and actual taxi time in both routine and irregular operations,” said Moran. “Further, we expect to measure a quantifiable reduction in airside operating costs.”
“Over the last decade, Continental has achieved new heights of service excellence and financial performance,” said Marc Viggiano, president of Sensis Air Traffic Systems. “By maximizing the efficiency of operations, Aerobahn will help Continental continue this success. It is worth noting that if Aerobahn were used at the top 60 U.S. airports, annual savings in taxi-out time alone could exceed $160 million.”
Sensis Aerobahn is operational in North America, Europe and Asia. Customers include Northwest Airlines for Detroit Metro and Minneapolis St. Paul International Airports; Fraport for Frankfurt Airport; and Service de la Navigation Aerienne for Paris Orly and Charles de Gaulle Airports.
