Lufthansa Group invests in new technology to transmit flight information in real time
An optimized flight path saves fuel and reduces CO2 emissions. With the standard installation of a new, innovative technology for transmitting flight profile information in its new A320neo/A321neo aircraft, the Lufthansa Group aims to further improve airspace management in Europe, avoid unnecessary detours and thus fly more sustainably.
Starting as early as 2024, the Lufthansa Group will receive more than 65 Airbus A320neo/A321neo aircraft on order – equipped with the new ADS-C EPP (Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Contract Extended Projected Profile) flight profile information technology. As a pioneer, the airline group is thus investing in the new technology at an early stage and promoting its fastest possible introduction throughout Europe. From 2028, the new technology must be installed as standard in all newly delivered aircraft and ATC ground systems in the EU.
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The new technology for transmitting flight path information in real time will in future automatically transmit 4D flight path information generated by the aircraft’s flight management system to air traffic control at any time. This so-called 4D flight trajectory describes the further course of a flight in the three spatial dimensions (length, width, height) as well as time as the fourth dimension. Based on the more precise information about the further flight path of an aircraft, air traffic control can control the airspace more efficiently and optimize the routing of the aircraft.
“When it comes to using new technologies for more sustainable flying, the Lufthansa Group plays a pioneering role. That is why we have made a conscious decision to use the new technology for transmitting flight path information in real time as standard on our new Airbus A320neo/A321neo aircraft as early as 2024,” says Dr. Detlef Kayser, Member of the Lufthansa Group’s Executive Board responsible for Fleet and Technology.
Important contribution to EU airspace modernization
The automated transmission of flight path information is contributing to EU airspace modernization. The Lufthansa Group’s new aircraft equipped with ADS-C EPP will initially be able to use the new technology in Maastricht airspace (MUAC), which is the first airspace in Europe to meet all the requirements.
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