AU Editor-In-Chief B. Kartikeya In Conversation With Raghed Talih, Director For Middle East, Turkey, India & Africa, Honeywell Aerospace

AU Editor-In-Chief B. Kartikeya In Conversation With Raghed Talih, Director For Middle East, Turkey, India & Africa, Honeywell Aerospace

- B. Kartikeya

Can you please inform us about Honeywell new vision, structural plans, long and short-term strategies?

A top focus for Honeywell is helping customers leverage the value of the ‘connected aircraft’, which can deliver huge benefits for pilots, operators and passengers alike.

We’ve already brought to market one of the industry’s fastest, farthest-reaching inflight Wi-Fi systems in our JetWave solution. It is through new connectivity pipes like this that airlines are now able to share and analyze, in real-time, far more operational and communication data between the aircraft and the ground than was ever possible before.

Earlier this year Honeywell launched Honeywell Forge for Airlines. This suite of software tools collects, cleans and analyzes streams of data from a wide variety of airplanes, airport, government, and Honeywell sources, and offers actionable insights and alerts that can help improve an airline’s understanding of its fleet, profitability and passenger experience.

In addition to providing solutions for flight operations and flight efficiency, Honeywell Forge for Airlines includes a connected maintenance solution. By providing alerts and identifying savings opportunities, the solution can help airlines maximize their profits while improving workflows between pilots, ground maintenance and operations to increase productivity. It is a proposition that can yield significant and tangible benefits for operators. For example, in the long term, we see maintenance savings of up to $40,000 per aircraft, per year, being realized with the use of Forge for Airlines.