IATA’s Turbulence Aware platform now has additional airlines and data integrators.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced that interest in its Turbulence Aware Platform continues to expand, with six airlines having joined the programme this year.
Most recently Asiana Airlines, British Airways, Scoot and Singapore Airlines have signed up for the programme.
TACKLING AIR TURBULENCE
Turbulence is a given for air service operators.
It is not a case of if but when turbulence will strike.
There have indeed been a notable number of air turbulence incidents worldwide this year, some of them severe.
Clear air turbulence incidents have also been on the rise during 2024.
IATA’s TURBULENCE AWARE PLATFORM
Managing turbulence will thus remain at the forefront of aviation safety and efficiency, given the expected rise in demand for air travel, coupled with shifting weather patterns.
Turbulence Aware pools anonymized turbulence data from flights operated by participating airlines.
This real-time, accurate turbulence reporting enables pilots and dispatchers to choose optimal flight paths, avoiding turbulence and flying at optimum levels to maximize fuel efficiency and thereby reduce CO2 carbon emissions.
“Making use of accurate and up-to-date data in Turbulence Aware helps flight crews’ efforts to avoid or at least mitigate the effects of turbulence. The quality of this data improves with each new airline contributing to the platform. So the strong take up of Turbulence Aware by airlines is important. As ever, they key to improving aviation safety is working together and we look forward to welcoming more airline participants in the coming year,” said Willie Walsh, IATA’s Director General.
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DATA TRANSMISSION
Along with growing airline participation, the data transmission scope of Turbulence Aware is also expanding through agreements concluded with The Weather Company, Lufthansa Systems, PACE TXT, APiJET, BCI and Storkjet over the past 12 months.
Through their existing data solutions for cockpit instruments, flight planning, and flight tracking systems, these companies now offer access to Turbulence Aware data.
This enables pilots, dispatchers and flight planners to receive turbulence data directly in their main workflows, without relying on multiple screens or tools.
IATA’s TURBULENCE AWARE PLATFORM
IATA launched Turbulence Aware in 2018 to help airlines mitigate the impact of turbulence which remains a leading cause of passenger and crew injuries.
At present, IATA’s Turbulence Aware Platform has over 25 airlines contributing and consuming data through more than 2,600 aircraft.
In 2023, a total of 38 million reports were generated.
Data from IATA Turbulence Aware is also made available to meteorological offices for turbulence modelling validation and development as well as academic institutes for research purposes.
