SunExpress has selected GE Aviation (
www.geaviation.com) for a comprehensive safety contract that includes eFOQA Mainline.
This covers the SunExpress fleet — including Boeing 737 and Airbus A330 airplanes — and expands upon a previous agreement “to enable advanced analytics with enriched data sets that will ultimately drive greater understanding of flight trends”.
Sedat Yilmaz, assistant safety manager with SunExpress (
www.sunexpress.com), said: “GE Aviation’s eFOQA is an integral tool used by SunExpress to ensure that our training programmes and operating policies are not only delivering on the most stringent principles of safety and efficiency in the industry but also setting new standards of excellence. Upgrading to GE’s eFOQA Mainline solution allows us to take this to a new level.”
FOQA (Flight Operations Quality Assurance) — also commonly referred to as FDM (Flight Data Monitoring) — is the process of analysing and reviewing routinely recorded flight data. Airlines and operators that adopt FOQA are better able to identify and eliminate potential safety hazards in flight operations.
Used by hundreds of operators world-wide, GE Aviation’s FOQA is a ‘premier service’ to help operators understand and improve safety, with patented analytics software that ‘fuses’ meteorological information, navigation data, and terrain mapping to identify safety events and measurements on thousands of flights every day.
Since its introduction in the airline industry more than 20 years ago, FOQA has been widely credited with reducing incident and accident rates at airlines where it has been adopted.