GE Digital and FLAPZ Sign Memo of Understanding to Collaborate on Safety Solutions for Business Jets in Latin America
October 19 2021 - 10:00AM
Business Wire
- Safety Insight for Business Jets, a Corporate Flight Operation
Quality Assurance (C-FOQA) solution from GE Digital, provides key
insights into safety and areas of potential risk
- Aviation marketplace for business jets in Latin America seeks
to promote availability of private flights at accessible prices;
solution to assist smaller operators with safety challenges
GE Digital today announced that it had signed a Memo of
Understanding with FLAPZ, a new aviation marketplace based in
Colombia, to work toward a mutual goal: increase safety in Business
& General Aviation in Colombia and other parts of Latin
America. The companies plan to work together to provide GE
Digital’s Safety Insight for Business Jets, a C-FOQA software and
services solution, to FLAPZ’s consortium that will make it easy for
business jet operators to improve safety by implementing safety
procedures at the highest level of international standards.
FLAPZ is Latin America’s fastest-growing private aviation
marketplace connecting passengers with dozens of regional certified
operators. Thanks to a disruptive technology that enables near-live
bookings, subscribers can search, compare, and book flights on more
than 250 aircraft (from helicopters to business jets), as well as
empty legs and shared seats, thus enabling access to a quickly
growing-base of passengers to experience private flying.
“Our goal is to digitalize the market and help our customers and
partners to reduce costs, save time, and commercialize their assets
efficiently and flexibly," said Ionatan Galeano, Co-Founder and CEO
of FLAPZ. “We have created a disruptive mobility ecosystem with
dozens of local and regional partners, and now we want to help
those partners -and the local authorities- increase safety
standards while providing a premium experience for flyers.”
Safety Insight for Business Jets helps business jet operators
fly more safely by identifying safety events and trends, as well as
fuel efficiency analysis. GE Digital’s experts examine data and
track safety metrics to reveal potential areas of risk and
benchmark each operator against the industry average. Operators
receive all data in a simplified, modern web application. Fuel
efficiencies allow operators to evolve to a more sustainable
business model that increases flight hours.
“FLAPZ is providing an innovative and exciting digital platform
for Latin American travelers,” said Andrew Coleman, General Manager
for GE Digital’s Aviation Software business. “We are proud to
partner with FLAPZ to apply proven aviation practices, like those
in C-FOQA, to emerging technologies, and provide an optimal
experience for its customers. As the aviation industry returns to
safe flight after the COVID-19 pandemic, we are incredibly focused
on becoming even safer and more sustainable to meet the demands of
the future.”
Safety Insight for Business Jets provides clean, reliable data
about safety events that flight crews need to know about with fewer
false positives and high confidence in the results. The solution
benchmarks safety factors across all operators in web-based
dashboards allowing for comparisons, approach stability, hard
landings, severe turbulence, and runway safety.
More information on GE Digital’s Aviation Software solutions can
be found here.
About FLAPZ
FLAPZ is revolutionizing the access and digital transformation
of Latin America's private aviation ecosystem. With a disruptive
technology-led business model, its Marketplace connects, in almost
real-time, passengers with dozens of certified regional operators
for a safe and seamless booking & flying experience. With more
than 250 certified aircraft available on its Marketplace across
LATAM, the fast-growing startup with offices in Colombia, Chile,
and Israel, has the commitment to improving access and the overall
end-to-end experience of the private air industry in the continent,
while actively setting best practices alongside authority,
operators, and passengers. For more, please visit:
https://www.flapz.app/
About GE Digital
GE Digital transforms how our customers solve their toughest
challenges by putting industrial data to work. Our mission is to
bring simplicity, speed, and scale to digital transformation
activities, with industrial software that delivers breakthrough
business outcomes. GE Digital’s product portfolio – including grid
optimization and analytics, asset and operations performance
management, and manufacturing operations and automation – helps
industrial companies in the utility, power generation, oil &
gas, aviation, and manufacturing sectors change the way industry
works. For more information, visit www.ge.com/digital.
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