EasyJet has invited the European press yesterday on its base in Milan Malpensa to present technological innovations. Program: drones, 3D printers, digital partnerships and innovations.
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It is far time or easyJet posted his phone number on its planes to its advertising. 230 aircraft and 750 routes in Europe later, the company will celebrate its 20th anniversary and continues to innovate to remain competitive in the airline industry with always the same obsession: to reduce costs.
Reduce the time that aircraft remains out of service is the workhorse of each airline. And this is where the drones are involved!
EasyJet announced it has successfully completed a full inspection of its aircraft through automated drones. The tests proved that the pre-programmed drones allowed to reduce the time compared to manual inspection, during which an aircraft is out of service after being hit by lightning, for example. Convenient when you consider that this type of incident requires a full day of inspection and a day late can cost up to € 25,000 ...
Drones will therefore be programmed to scan and analyze entire aircraft and send reports to engineers, including alerting of any damage requiring further inspection or maintenance work.
The British company is about to complete his flight inspection tests by drones for implementation in 2016.
3D Printer
We know that the digitalisation of production tools will induce profound changes in the lives of industrialists. At the head of this revolution, the 3D printer!
EasyJet is already testing its use for some cabin elements such as the armrests to accelerate the replacement process and reduce the storage of spare parts. 3D printers will be part of the new generation of engines easyJet. The LEAP engine carries with it 3D printed parts including fuel injectors, carbon filters for pale and ceramic matrix composites.
"Today, it takes 24 months between conception and delivery of a piece of phase" explains Thierry Thomas, Head Additive Manufacturing Safran with easyJet which collaborates. The time savings thanks to the 3D printer could therefore be considerable while maintaining performance since some parts could be even lighter.
The use of 3D printing could allow the airline to correct quickly and efficiently any anomaly on its fleet in the coming years, producing only the necessary parts.
A partnership with Airbus
3rd largest customer of Airbus (easyJet has the largest fleet of Airbus single aisle in Europe), so it's not entirely surprising that the two companies working together.
This time it involves putting in place a solution that exploits the maintenance prognoses with services and eSolutions can receive real-time information from the aircraft, with the ACARS messaging system. The information is then analyzed by sending error predictions to operational teams so that they can use them to solve technical problems at the landing of the aircraft or during routine maintenance. The partnership will enable easyJet to approach the goal of eliminating delays associated with technical incidents. The company has already reduced the delays that passed from October to June, 1,000 aircraft movements over the last five years.
New mobile application
The easyJet implementation may well have been downloaded over 12.5 million times to date, only 10% of passengers use it to present their boarding pass. We know that companies make great efforts on the user experience and it now goes through a successful mobile application. The big data is an important issue for a company that carries over 66 million passengers per year. So what's new in the new iOS and Android application easyJet available this summer? No more stress to the idea of making a mistake when returning your passport number. The new app will now allow you to directly scan your number and also select your seat.
Upon arrival at the airport, the app is more effective than a guide dog and you take the hand with push notifications, geolocation in the airport, the number of your gate display. etc ...
The new easyjet application will be available on the Apple Watch
Glances, one of the key features of the Apple Watch, informs and reminds passengers all the important stages of their trip to find out information before departure, details of check-in, or the status of the flight in real time. Glances also indicates the boarding time to the user on the flight with a handy countdown. All necessary notifications are sent directly to Apple Watch, which prevents owner by a slight vibration.
Finally, note that easyJet will now use Periscope to inform passengers in the event of major disruption, in addition to traditional channels like Twitter, Facebook, SMS and emails and their main Flight Tracker tool. In contrast, small disappointment for those who expected to see the WiFi arrive in airplanes, it's not for right away to cost issues (again) and performance.
One thing is certain, the survival of the low cost model through drones, 3D printers and other digital innovations. In any case the strategy adopted by Carolyn McCall, CEO of easyJet which welcomed the work undertaken by his company in its race for innovation.
See This : Netizens thought that Android would be called M "Milkshake" ???
It is far time or easyJet posted his phone number on its planes to its advertising. 230 aircraft and 750 routes in Europe later, the company will celebrate its 20th anniversary and continues to innovate to remain competitive in the airline industry with always the same obsession: to reduce costs.
Reduce the time that aircraft remains out of service is the workhorse of each airline. And this is where the drones are involved!
EasyJet announced it has successfully completed a full inspection of its aircraft through automated drones. The tests proved that the pre-programmed drones allowed to reduce the time compared to manual inspection, during which an aircraft is out of service after being hit by lightning, for example. Convenient when you consider that this type of incident requires a full day of inspection and a day late can cost up to € 25,000 ...
Drones will therefore be programmed to scan and analyze entire aircraft and send reports to engineers, including alerting of any damage requiring further inspection or maintenance work.
The British company is about to complete his flight inspection tests by drones for implementation in 2016.
3D Printer
We know that the digitalisation of production tools will induce profound changes in the lives of industrialists. At the head of this revolution, the 3D printer!
EasyJet is already testing its use for some cabin elements such as the armrests to accelerate the replacement process and reduce the storage of spare parts. 3D printers will be part of the new generation of engines easyJet. The LEAP engine carries with it 3D printed parts including fuel injectors, carbon filters for pale and ceramic matrix composites.
"Today, it takes 24 months between conception and delivery of a piece of phase" explains Thierry Thomas, Head Additive Manufacturing Safran with easyJet which collaborates. The time savings thanks to the 3D printer could therefore be considerable while maintaining performance since some parts could be even lighter.
The use of 3D printing could allow the airline to correct quickly and efficiently any anomaly on its fleet in the coming years, producing only the necessary parts.
A partnership with Airbus
3rd largest customer of Airbus (easyJet has the largest fleet of Airbus single aisle in Europe), so it's not entirely surprising that the two companies working together.
This time it involves putting in place a solution that exploits the maintenance prognoses with services and eSolutions can receive real-time information from the aircraft, with the ACARS messaging system. The information is then analyzed by sending error predictions to operational teams so that they can use them to solve technical problems at the landing of the aircraft or during routine maintenance. The partnership will enable easyJet to approach the goal of eliminating delays associated with technical incidents. The company has already reduced the delays that passed from October to June, 1,000 aircraft movements over the last five years.
New mobile application
The easyJet implementation may well have been downloaded over 12.5 million times to date, only 10% of passengers use it to present their boarding pass. We know that companies make great efforts on the user experience and it now goes through a successful mobile application. The big data is an important issue for a company that carries over 66 million passengers per year. So what's new in the new iOS and Android application easyJet available this summer? No more stress to the idea of making a mistake when returning your passport number. The new app will now allow you to directly scan your number and also select your seat.
Upon arrival at the airport, the app is more effective than a guide dog and you take the hand with push notifications, geolocation in the airport, the number of your gate display. etc ...
The new easyjet application will be available on the Apple Watch
Glances, one of the key features of the Apple Watch, informs and reminds passengers all the important stages of their trip to find out information before departure, details of check-in, or the status of the flight in real time. Glances also indicates the boarding time to the user on the flight with a handy countdown. All necessary notifications are sent directly to Apple Watch, which prevents owner by a slight vibration.
Finally, note that easyJet will now use Periscope to inform passengers in the event of major disruption, in addition to traditional channels like Twitter, Facebook, SMS and emails and their main Flight Tracker tool. In contrast, small disappointment for those who expected to see the WiFi arrive in airplanes, it's not for right away to cost issues (again) and performance.
One thing is certain, the survival of the low cost model through drones, 3D printers and other digital innovations. In any case the strategy adopted by Carolyn McCall, CEO of easyJet which welcomed the work undertaken by his company in its race for innovation.