AVTECH today announces a new partnership agreement with the Met Office (UK) ensuring world leading aviation weather forecasts.

The Met Office has been at the forefront of global weather and climate science
for 160 years. ”We combine the latest science with ground breaking advances in
technology and local understanding to deliver operational advantage to all
sectors of the aviation industry - airlines, airports, air traffic control and
management, ground handling, airport construction and maintenance. Our work
helps the industry increase safety and achieve operational efficiencies and cost
savings” says Jonathan Dutton, Met Office Business Manager.
As part of this partnership AVTECH has received a Superior Weather Forecast
Quality Assurance (http://avtech.aero/metofficequalityassurance/) from the Met
Office. This ensures that our Aventus NowCast product line customers are getting
the best available aviation weather forecasts existing in the world today.
Premium weather from the Met Office will further increase the value for airline
users of the Aventus NowCast service as it increases the accuracy of the data
uplinked to the aircraft.
Accordingly, the Met Office will be AVTECH’s first choice weather forecast
supplier for the benefit of all AVTECH’s present and future customers.
Additionally, AVTECH and the Met Office will engage in joint marketing
activities to further promote the enhanced Aventus NowCast product offering.
“It is with great satisfaction we have reached this long term agreement with the
Met Office. In the near future we will also see a number of exciting product
enhancements springing from this partnership” says Christer Fehrling, CEO
AVTECH.
For more information, please contact
Christer Fehrling, CEO and Business Unit Director Aventus NowCast, +46 (0) 8 544
104 80
David Rytter, Chief Technical Officer, +46 (0) 8 544 104 80
About Aventus NowCast
The Aventus NowCast system is a unique and patented system that enables accurate
wind information and/or 4-Dimensional Trajectories for flights, making use of
the very best in atmospheric modeling combined with weather information to
create high resolution wind models and wind data packages for the different
segments of a flight; a so called NowCast. Data packages are uplinked to
aircrafts to enable the onboard Flight Management Systems (FMS) to accurately
calculate an optimized flight profile and an accurate time when each waypoint of
a flight will be reached. The immediate benefits of Aventus NowCast are airline
fuel- and CO2savings, i.e. the solution is highly environmentally friendly. It
is also imperative for Time-based operations in aviation, which is an area where
Aventus NowCast provides an even larger overall financial and environmental
benefits through the provision of increased efficiency and punctuality of
individual flights
About AVTECH Sweden AB (publ)
AVTECH develops products and services for digital Air Traffic Management (ATM).
Its customers include the global aviation industry; e.g. airlines, airports,
aviation authorities, technology companies and airline manufacturers. By using
AVTECH’s products and services, each individual flight as well as the entire
airline operation can be optimized in terms of cost, noise and emission,
efficiency, punctuality and safety. The head office is in Stockholm, Sweden with
subsidiaries in Toulouse, France and an associated company in Dubai, U.A.E. For
more information, visit www.avtech.aero. AVTECH Sweden AB is listed on NASDAQ
OMX First North and has appointed Redeye AB, tel: +46 8 545 013 30, as Certified
Adviser.
About the Met Office
The Met Office is the UK’s National Weather Service, providing 24x7 world
-renowned scientific excellence in weather, climate and environmental forecasts
and severe weather warnings for the protection of life and property.
(www.metoffice.gov.uk)
This information is information that Avtech Sweden AB (publ) is obliged to make
public pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation. The information was submitted
for publication, through the agency of the contact persons set out above, at
08:30 CEST on October 18, 2016.