Making the best decisions based on holistic and comprehensive insights isn’t always simple. As an (growing) airline, you operate complex processes and have to take care of various aspects (weather, crew, passengers, cargo, provider, etc.). In order not to get lost in operational issues that limit your success, we recommend a tool that helps you…
Airline Operations KPI Dashboards are a perfect tool to improve operations. They provide an unmatched situational awareness and the possibility to know what is going on in operations. I talk to lots of guys from airlines about real-time operations dashboards. Thus, I can learn about people’s perceptions and dogmas when it comes to dashboards. Talking…
Airline KPI dashboard solution —as for example the A:Wall— usually offer the possibility, to tailor and customize the visualization. Choosing required KPIs, picking the most appealing visualization forms (widgets) and combining everything in several workspaces. The possibilities are limitless — so is the source for mistakes. However, there are best practices to configure an airline operations…
I’ve set up so many airline dashboards during the last years. Dashboards for all types of airlines: Huge network carriers, regional operators, and low-cost airlines. And when it comes to an operations dashboard, all of them have some specific requirements. This is quite logical since they are operating different business models and probably aiming for…
Just a few years ago, providing information on mobiles was considered top-notch. Users were happy with the ability to monitor information and updates from wherever they are and whenever they want. Same applied for airline operations dashboard and KPIs. Although this hasn’t changed completely, today, users expect much more from an app than just the…
When we started to develop the eFueling platform, we had a clear vision to digitize an airline’s fueling process. From discussions with airlines and other stakeholders, we were highly convinced that it is possible to eliminate this manual process. Moreover, we wanted to set up an all-digital process that helps to achieve various benefits. Besides…
Fuel costs are one of the most significant cost factors of airlines. According to IATA, the airline industry’s fuel bill is estimated to have totaled $188 billion in 2019. That means fuel expenses account for almost 25% of an airline’s operating expenses. For decades airlines have been trying to reduce costs by applying various measures:…
eFueling stands and falls with connected airports. You can operate a best-in-class eFueling solution — as long as you don’t manage to connect a considerable amount of destination airports to your solution, the effort won’t pay off. Conversely, with every airport, you get to connect to your eFueling solution, the benefits will rapidly increase. However,…
The most successful airlines are successful because they keep tracking and monitoring their airline operations KPIs. They’re literally swimming in data and performance indicators. These airlines understood that every decision has to be based on data and KPIs. If you don’t know your performance at every point in time, you have no idea and no…
Airline Operations KPI Dashboards are such great tools to create an enterprise-wide situational awareness. First and foremost, these dashboards are about visualizing KPIs. For example, on-time performance, regularity, or misconnex ratio. Secondly, it is about real-time information and details about upcoming flights, ground events, etc. Most of the airline I know focus on those aspects…
The primary use case of an airline operations real-time dashboard is about visualizing information an KPIs. No doubt about it. However, a dashboard infrastructure —at least when talking about our product setup— collects a vast amount of data from different sources (flight data, passenger data, airport data, etc.). Based on that three use cases can…
Visualizing airline operations information on your dashboard is essential for a perfect situational awareness. KPIs are certainly one of the essential parts of an airline’s operations real-time dashboard. But the truth is, a dashboard solely focused on KPIs won’t bring the benefits you are expecting. Even worse, a dashboard that only visualizes KPIs can provide…
The success of an airline operations dashboard is tightly linked to connected data sources. Nowadays, almost every airline possesses a vast amount of data. Data about aircraft, ground and flight processes, maintenance, passengers, and many more. Initial focus of airline operations dashboard is on internal data When airlines start to set up an airline operations…
With one of our recent blog posts, we presented the KPI Trends that will gain importance in 2020. The article addresses aspects like dynamic dashboards or benchmarking KPIs. Today we want to focus on upcoming technological trends that —from our point of view— will play an important role in 2020. Probably not surprising, each of…
One of the most asked questions we receive is built around the topic of savings that can be achieved by using airline real-time operations dashboards. In our latest blog post, we already discussed the financial effort of setting up and operating an airline operations real-time dashboard. However, we did not cover the aspect of saving…
In one of our last airline dashboard blog posts, I mentioned that a question which is usually raised within 30-60 minutes of an initial meeting with potential clients is “how long does it take to implement the A:Wall?” The A:Wall is our real-time dashboard solution. And besides discussing the functionality and visuals, potential clients are…
With this blog post, we give you a quick overview of the essential airline maintenance information that should be visualized on your operations dashboard. Although we like to call it airline operations dashboard, the content shouldn’t be limited purely to flight operations information. Conversely, a perfect dashboard combines information from different sources/areas, curates them, and…
The idea of airline operations KPIs more and more attracts airlines. Many of them have started to track KPIs regularly or even in real-time. However, a considerable proportion of airlines concentrate on “traditional” KPIs, for example, punctuality, stability, etc. Don’t get me wrong: There’s nothing wrong with that. Conversely, we encourage and empower airlines to…
Let’s talk about the idea of using Tableau as an airline operations (real-time) dashboard. To make it clear right from the beginning: I love Tableau. Actually, I think Tableau has changed the way companies are approaching the world of data analytics — tremendously and sustainably. Tableau literally enabled business departments to get in control of…
When discussing an A:Wall project with a potential airline, it usually takes only 30 to 60 minutes until the question is asked: “How long does it take? What’s the estimated project duration to set up our dashboard?”. It is, of course, an essential question for airlines and a key aspect of whether to start a…
Airline Operations KPI Dashboards are a perfect tool to improve operations. They provide an unmatched situational awareness and the possibility to know what is going on in operations. With this post, we want to share eight airline departments/areas which highly benefit from an airline KPI dashboard. Operations Control Let’s start with the obvious one. Operations…
An Airline Operations KPI Dashboard is just as good as the data it is receiving. Since everyone is aware of this fact, one question comes up very early in every dashboard project: “Which systems are required?” or “Which system do we need to connect?”. When discussing this question a little bit further, it always turns…
Smartwatches are continuously becoming an essential part of many people’s life. As mobiles did 15 years ago, we are currently witnessing the advent of smartwatches. And this will have an impact on airline operations KPIs too. With a market size of $9 billion back in 2017, current forecast estimate a volume of more than $30…
We updated this article with even more KPIs. Head over to the latest version: 65 airline operations KPIs to track for improved operations The most successful airlines are successful because they keep tracking and monitoring their airline operations KPIs. They’re literally swimming in data and performance indicators. These airlines understood that every decision has to…
Airline operations KPIs have been around for a long time. And I’m pretty sure your airline is already tracking KPIs such as punctuality, regularity, or delay minutes. It is good to track those primary KPIs. However, it only serves as an entry point to the world of airline operations KPIs. Airline KPIs beyond punctuality Today…
What are the 6 most important KPI for airline operations? A tough question. There are so many airline operations KPIs available. When we start a project with an airline, we usually have a set of +50 KPIs to launch an initial discussion. And our product catalog contains even more than 100 airline operations KPIs. Indeed,…
On-time performance (punctuality) is probably the number quality indicator for an airline (except safety aspects). And a quality indicator that affects your passengers massively. However, many airlines still struggle to improve their OTP or maintain it on a high level. According to recent numbers from OAG, only 4 airlines are operating with an OTP >=…
Airline operations and Apple seem not to have very much in common — at first sight. Especially, when it comes to key performance indicator (KPI). However, I think that airline executives can gain a lot from thinking like Apple. Let’s check out why: With the iPhone Apple has hugely disrupted the mobile market. Moreover, with…
Punctuality (On-time performance) still is the number one operational performance indicator for every airline. It is published regularly and analyzed to the very detail. Additionally, an increasing number of airlines monitor it in real-time. An increasing number of airlines do have dashboards — especially in their operations or network control center. Nonetheless, what I observe…
An increasing number of airlines are trying to bring operations KPI to mobiles and provide a KPI app. This makes absolute sense since the number of people using their mobile to access information is steadily and rapidly increasing. Two years ago already, 93% of all mobile users obtained online information with their mobile. Of course,…
I’m pretty sure you know that situation. You’ve spent so much to set up KPI dashboard — and what’s the result? After a few days, nobody pays attention to it. With this article, I will show you how to improve airline KPIs. Certainly, Key Performance Indicator (KPI) are difficult. Setting-up proper KPIs is even more…
Setting up a KPI dashboard — not only for airline operations — is a complicated endeavor. There are many obstacles to overcome, and a lot of work is to be done. And there’s always the risk that your complete work doesn’t pay off in the end. Simply because the dashboard doesn’t get the sustainable attention…
In some of my last blog posts, I already shared thoughts about the importance of airline KPIs. Especially the real-time relevance of KPIs. However, so far, I left out the topic about how to provide KPIs to your audience. How’s the status quo at many airlines? When discussing this aspect with colleagues from airlines, I’m…
On 17th September 2019, we had the great pleasure to present at this year’s ASQS user conference. We were invited to share thoughts about key trends when it comes to data visualization — particularly in the area of safety management but also on a general level. The presentation below comprises our thoughts and points out…
The global and necessary debate about climate change, global warming, and CO2 reduction is currently dominating the headlines. Subsequently, the relevance of sustainability KPIs for airlines is steadily increasing. And I would go even further and say that sustainability in all of its forms — fuel/CO2 reduction, compensation possibilities, weight reduction, etc. — will become a…
KPI dashboards are the perfect solution to control an airline’s operation. Either real-time or near-real-time, a well-implemented dashboard with a thorough set of KPIs enables a considerable potential for improved monitoring and situational awareness — especially on management and executive level. Unfortunately, many KPI projects integration projects fail — commonly due to the same mistakes.…
Good decisions are based on knowledge rather than numbers. Plato, one of the great Greek philosophers made this statement almost 2,500 years ago. Actually, this is a great and wise statement. And probably a quote that perfectly describes why I think that data – in its rawest form – is useless. Decisions are the essence…
What are your top three KPI every airline should pay attention to? A question I’m asked frequently. With this post, I want to provide my favorite airline operations KPIs. And explain why I consider them as most relevant. What defines relevance, and why do I think every airline should pay attention to the following KPIs?…
For all of you who have no time to read my last blog post. Here we go with a 90 second video — and my thoughts why on-time performance is useless and does not incorporate the customer. Watch. Enjoy. Comment and let me know your thoughts.
On-time performance (OTP) is probably the most famous and well-known performance indicator airlines use. Almost since the beginning of civil aviation, OTP has been an important quality indicator. For sure, OTP possesses a particular attractiveness: Easy to calculate, required data is available, and it all sums up to one bold number — which is also…
Absolutely convinced that weekly reports kill the motivation of operational airline staff. And super-fascinated about the possibilities real-time information brings. Watch my 2-minute on-the-spot video taken during an internal workshop on improvements through real-time information. Watch. Enjoy. Comment and let me know your thoughts.
Sometimes you get carried away by all these fancy buzzwords and I am no stranger to that. However, I’m always aiming for feasible and executable solutions. Big data, in my opinion, has definitely survived the buzzword hype and we can witness a multitude of use cases, tools and benefits this technology is accomplishing. However, when…
I’m fascinated how situational awareness changes the way you work. Here’s my fact #1 why you need situational awareness at your airline. Watch the short video taken during my presentation at Aviation Festival in London.
I think I’m not exaggerating when saying that Master Data Systems (MDS) have a boring image. No fancy user interface, no AI, no nothing. Not sexy at all. And I’m not exaggerating when stating that many MDS projects lasts much longer than expected, don’t achieve set goals or fail completely. Personally, I think this is…
Every airline focus on operational performance. And every airline is already trying to monitor the most relevant performance indicators such as punctuality, regularity, or misconnex quota. When talking to performance analysts from airlines across the globe, still most of them tell us that they rely on daily or even weekly and monthly performance reports. Let…
Sometimes you get carried away by all these fancy buzzwords and I am no stranger to that. However, I’m always aiming for feasible and executable solutions. Big data, in my opinion, has definitely survived the buzzword hype and we can witness a multitude of use cases, tools and benefits this technology is accomplishing. However, when…
Today’s technological world is highly driven by topics such as big data, AI, blockchain and machine learning. However, and interesting enough, when working with airlines all over the world we recognise quite often the challenges airlines are facing – especially in an airline operations context – are much less buzzword-driven and more down to earth.…
Plenty has been written regarding organisation’s chances to drive innovation. And many studies have been conducted, which analyze how innovative processes can be initiated. However, from experience and when working with clients, I observe very often that it’s all about tools and methods. Which IT tools can we use to increase innovation? Shall we go…