Want Your Fuel Spend To Go Further?

As fuel costs fluctuate, you need a way to ensure you are operating as efficiently as possible to help manage your fuel spend. IATA has recently reported that the cost of jet fuel from 2010 to 2011 has increased 40 percent, with the expected 2011 impact to be approximately +US$60 billion.

To overcome this, you need a way to ensure that your:

  • Flight planning is optimized to reduce fuel burn,
  • Loading and balancing processes create an optimal center of gravity for every aircraft,
  • Airport gate planning is conducted to minimize fuel burn on the ground,
  • Irregular operations recovery is organized so that you can recover from disruptions while limiting wasted fuel burn.

Effectively operating in these areas and across your airline can curb fuel consumption and can bring savings directly to your bottom line. Lower fuel consumption can also increase customer loyalty and help to differentiate your brand among carbon-conscious customers.

Depending on your needs and the solutions selected to be a part of your fuel-management program, you can increase fuel savings by as much as 8 percent. Download your InfoPac today to learn more or contact your account manager.

Solutions To Help Curb Fuel Costs

To best improve your efficiency you need to ensure your business processes are following best practices for fuel conservation and that your current operations systems allow you to get the most out of your fuel spend. We offer a range of both business process consulting and software solutions that can help you acheive your desired result.

Control and reduce fuel utilization and associated costs with our solutions and consulting services.

To learn more about each of our solutions or services, simply click on the link to view additional information.

Our Solutions Our Services

Carbon Calculator
Uses our systems to calculate carbon emissions and brings together information on flights including date of travel, airline, departure point and destination.

Carbon Tracking And Planning Consulting
Helps airlines develop their monitoring plans, record and monitor greenhouse gas emissions, and develop forward-looking plans to reduce their carbon footprint.

Flight Planning
Provides airlines the optimal tool to support worldwide airline operational needs. A sophisticated flight plan optimization calculator provides an extensive array of fuel-, time- and cost-efficiency methods, including variable cost index, to produce flight plans with the highest degree of accuracy and least amount of fuel and CO2 emissions.

Flight Planning Including Reserve Requirements, Decision Points (Re-Clearance) And Cost Index Consulting
Helps with analysis of current processes related to flight planning and dispatch operations, defines new processes and procedures, and assists with the implementation of such processes and procedures to drive measurable benefits to the bottom line.

Electronic Flight Bag
Helps flight crews perform flight management tasks more easily and efficiently while reducing paper use in the cockpit, including the manuals (and weight) needed for airport and aircraft performance data.

Electronic Flight Bag Consulting
Helps enable seamless implementation and maximum value from an airline’s existing electronic flight bag solution.

Gate Planning And Management
Provides decision support for the utilization of gates by constantly evaluating flight data, analyzing changing conditions, automatically detecting potential problems and either automatically or manually resolving problems to ensure smooth operations.

Airport Consulting Practice
With access to a wide range of data resources, our consultants conduct in-depth analyses such as airport-leakage studies, traffic-flow mapping and passenger booking-pattern evaluation, as well as develop fare files and market sizes used for forecasting and analysis.

Load Planning And Balancing
Provides load planners a visual representation of the optimal center of gravity helping realize significant fuel savings by optimizing the center of gravity.

Load Planning Consulting
Assists with analysis of current processes related to load planning and weight optimization, defines new processes and procedures, and assists with implementation of such processes and procedures to drive measurable benefits to the bottom line through improved load planning and weight optimization, which provides for the most efficient flight operations.

Movement Management
Enables an airline to schedule daily maintenance and flight operations and provides the ability to monitor these activities, enabling an airline to receive reliable and thorough information about current operations. Using a “manage by exception” methodology, provides users with improved contingency planning while improving on-time performance by 7 percent to 10 percent, reducing maintenance dead time and maximizing staff productivity.

Irregular Operation Management
Provides a comprehensive decision-support system that addresses schedule recovery across an airline’s entire core operations. Incorporates aircraft maintenance routing, crew rescheduling and reassignments, and the impact of schedule changes on passengers.

Fuel Program Consulting
Helps with analysis of current processes, defines new needed processes and procedures, and assists with the implementation of such processes and procedures to drive fuel savings with measurable benefits to the bottom line as well as reducing an airline's carbon footprint.

MRO Consulting
Assists with analysis of current processes, defines new processes and procedures, and assists with implementation of such processes and procedures to drive measurable benefits to the bottom line, helping airlines capture the extremely variable M&E costs and self-evaluate their performance.

On-time Performance Consulting
Helps reduce delay costs that can account for many millions of dollars per year and improve on-time performance, resulting in significant cost savings as well as improve one of the main key performance indicators in the airline industry and maintain a competitive service differentiator.

 

Reduced Fuel Costs Are Possible

Reduced fuel spend is achievable. Whether you need to reexamine your operations and business processes or you need new technology to improve your fuel efficiency, we can help you. Below are three actual airline examples where we have helped reduce fuel spend:

Airline 1

  • Airbus A320 and Boeing 737-800 operations
  • 90-minute average flights (3,000 flight hours per year)
  • 75,0000 U.S. gallons of fuel savings per year (3 percent)
  • US$190,000 of reduced annual fuel costs
  • 700 tons lower annual emissions of CO2

Airline 2

  • Single Airbus A330-200 using 9,000 US gallons of fuel on a 2,000-nautical-mile trip
  • 176,000 U.S. gallons of fuel savings per year (3 percent)
  • US$440,000 of reduced annual fuel cost
  • 1,700 tons of lower CO2 emissions per year

Airline 3

  • Single Boeing 747-400 using 25,000 U.S. gallons of fuel on a 4,000-nautical-mile trip
  • 360,000 U.S. gallons of fuel savings per year (3 percent)
  • US$900,000 of reduced annual fuel costs
  • 3,400 tons of lower CO2 emissions per year

Get Started Today

Along with world-class solutions, we analyze an airline’s current processes and procedures to define improved processes and procedures that more align with industry best practices to help you achieve increased fuel savings and operational efficiencies. The focus is on both achieving results and effective knowledge transfer.

Throughout a consulting engagement or a technology solution implementation, our experts work side by side with airlines to achieve the most successful results. In this way, the delivery methodology is cooperative, collaborative and results driven.

  • More than 300 leading airlines globally rely on us to better market their schedules, sell their products, serve their customers and operate efficiently,
  • We have a wealth of experience in the aviation industry and have accumulated a deep knowledge of airline operations,
  • More than 200 leading airlines around the world have turned to our solutions for strategic, commercial and operational consulting.

Contact our business consulting group to get started on your journey to increased fuel efficiency:

Julie Medulan
Business Consulting
Sabre Airline Solutions
julie.medulan@sabre.com

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