PACE Aerospace And Nexteon Technologies To Provide FPO-SR Real-Time Optimization For JetBlue Fleets

FPO-SR combines PACE’s established Flight Profile Optimizer (FPO) with Nexteon’s innovative SmartRoutes to provide 4D real-time flight optimization and situational awareness enhancement.

FPO-SR enables JetBlue pilots to optimize their route, altitude, and speed to save fuel and cost, and provide environmental benefits.

PACE Aerospace and Information Technology GmbH (PACE), a subsidiary of TXT e-Solutions Spa (STAR:TXT:MI), and Nexteon Technologies, Inc. (Nexteon) have been selected by JetBlue (Nasdaq:JBLU) to deploy their flight optimization solution — Flight Profile Optimizer with SmartRoutes (FPO-SR) — directly to the pilots on its entire fleet of aircraft, including the A320 family, A220 and E190 aircraft over the coming weeks and months.

FPO-SR optimizes the vertical and lateral profiles of each flight in real time, taking into account weather, traffic, and the availability of airspace. FPO-SR’s cloud-based calculations combine the power of PACE’s advanced and validated first principles performance engine, which uses the most accurate aircraft-specific data from OEMs, with Nexteon’s innovative SmartRoutes™, which leverages powerful data mining technologies and multiple decades of development, real-world adaptation and testing. FPO-SR’s continuous holistic optimization enables JetBlue to benefit from fuel burn savings and reduction in the environmental impact of the emissions. FPO-SR can be customized and configured for each specific airline’s operations and can support Collaborative Decision Making (CDM) between the cockpit crew and their dispatcher to ensure coordination between ground operations and the flight deck.

“JetBlue selected PACE/Nexteon’s FPO-SR after an extensive review process,” said Captain Chuck Cook, Director Communications, Navigation, Surveillance, and Technical Programs at JetBlue. “Our trials have shown that real-time inflight 4D optimization will allow JetBlue to further optimize our fleet and reduce our environmental footprint” he added.

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