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Category: Product development

  • Aircraft Ground Events: tracking global maintenance events

    I’m pleased to announce the availability of a new “Data Demonstrator” within the new Airline Profiles product. We’ve added a tab (alongside Fleet and News) titled “Ground Events”. On this tab you’ll find a data visualisation that shows tracked aircraft ground events (>7days duration) going back to Jan 2019. For each tracked ground event, you’ll see:

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  • Airline & Lessor Profiles: A new homepage

    Since we launched Profiles, the landing page has been the fleet tab for American Airlines. This is great if you’re really interested in American Airlines, but it’s far from ideal for everybody else. I’m therefore pleased to announce the release of a new homepage for Profiles.

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  • New dataset: Fuel burn and CO2 emissions

    We are pleased to announce the release of our new fuel burn and CO2 emissions add-on.

    We calculate fuel burn and CO2 emissions by combining our satellite-based tracking capability with our fuel and emissions model. We currently provide fuel burn and CO2 emissions for ~98.8% of in-service regional, narrowbody and widebody jets (learn more).

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  • New dataset: Tracked hours & cycles

    In addition to our existing reported hours & cycles data (which covers ~50% of in-service regional, narrowbody and widebody jets), we are pleased to announce the release of our new tracked hours & cycles dataset.

    This new dataset (derived from satellite-based tracking of aircraft) covers ~99.7% of in-service regional, narrowbody and widebody jets.

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  • Lessor Profiles now available in Beta

    Lessor Profiles (Beta) have been released and are currently available to users of Fleets Analyzer. These new profiles are similar to the recently released Airline Profiles.

    The new profiles make it easy to see the percentage of a lessor’s fleet that is currently on lease, and also the fleet breakdown by owned vs managed.

    In order to access Lessor Profiles, please see the information provided on the Fleets Analyzer homepage.

    screenshot of a lessor summary
    Figure 1. The high-level lessor summary as shown on the top of the Lessor Profile Fleet tab.
    Easily see the lessors clients, and which aircraft they have leased.
    Figure 2. Easily see a lessor’s clients, and which aircraft they have leased.

  • Airline Profiles – April updates

    Although the new Airline Profiles (Fleet summary) were released just last week, we already have a few enhancements to announce:

    1. You can now make charts and tables full screen.
    2. The ability to hide the filter panel has been made clearer.
    3. Links to new profiles on old profiles (available Thur 22nd).
    4. ‘Letter of Intent’ has now changed to ‘LOI’.
    5. Standard\Dashboard version: Ownership section text changed.

    For information on each enhancement, please see the details below:

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  • Early access to new Airline Profiles

    Users of Fleets Analyzer can now get early access to new Airline Profiles. The new Airline Profiles include: filtering, grouping, data visualisations, information on the age distribution of a fleet, and detailed ownership and lessor information. To get access, please see the instructions available from the Fleets Analyzer homepage.

  • How commercial aircraft retirements are determined in Cirium fleet data

    This post aims to explain how end-of-life commercial aircraft retirements are determined in the Cirium data research process.

    NOTE: A separate Knowledge Base article explains how the Fleets Analyzer Projection feature determines future retirements using a non-researched based approach.Continue reading

  • Projection Module: The Retirement Model

    Why are there so many retirements during the current period?

    When using the Projections tab within Fleets Analyzer, and showing Retirement events, you may notice a large number of events during the current period (month, quarter, year), along with a corresponding drop in the number of in-service aircraft.

    When there is no known retirement date for an aircraft, under the Projections tab, a basic retirements model is used. The model uses the following rules:Continue reading

  • Aircraft build location

    We are pleased to announce that we have recently added Build Location to Fleets Analyzer. Build location represents the final assembly location and is assigned to individual aircraft.

    In total, we have added build location to over 173,000 aircraft across all market groups. For the commercial fleet, we have build location for 88% of delivered aircraft.Continue reading

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