Air New Zealand sign contract for Aventus Nowcast™

AVTECH Sweden AB has entered into another commercial contract for its Aventus
NowCast™ product system, this time with Air New Zealand.
Over a short period of time, AVTECH has closed another, strategically important,
contract in terms of its wind product, Aventus NowCast™. Aventus NowCast™ has
shown great savings of fuel per approach in live trials and operations. The
system also reduces the environmental impact in terms of noise and emissions.
Moreover, it enables the aircraft to meet required time of arrival (RTA) within
seconds, through which gains are seen to be even larger than the direct fuel
savings.
New Zealand is a country characterized by a willingness to readily embrace newly
invented technologies, in particular for environmental reasons. Fuel efficiency
in transportation is a priority as part of the overall government environmental
policy in New Zealand. The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) in New Zealand has had
an implementation plan for PBN (Performance Based Navigation) in place since the
end of 2009 and the policy was issued in April 2012. Implementing Time Based
Operations (TBO) is therefore another important step for environmentally
conscious countries, like New Zealand, seeking to make long-term environmental
progress.

“This agreement with AVTECH represents a significant step forward in our goal of
achieving a truly perfect descent and arrival. Under our environmental strategy
Air New Zealand have already implemented initiatives that have resulted in more
continuous descents, reduced ATC intervention, and the use of tailored arrivals
or RNP AR procedures to reduce track miles. Time based 4DT technology is the
final step in the journey towards a perfect descent. Air New Zealand looks
forward to working with AVTECH in implementing their 4DT technology to further
optimise the aircraft descent and arrivals.“ says Bob Fletcher, Air New
Zealand’s Manager Operations Support.
“Previously, another airline in the Middle East has already begun implementing,
and thereby solving the challenges of, Time Based Operations (TBO) using the
Aventus NowCast™ system. Time Based Operations (TBO) is a key step in the
implementation of Performance Based Operations (PBO), which opens up new
possibilities to operate aircraft more efficiently than done today.” says
Wolfgang Sagmeister, Business Unit Director of Products & Marketing at AVTECH
Sweden.
For more information, please contact:
Charlotte Johnston Lönnberg
Direct: +46 (0) 8 544 104 82
E-mail: charlotte.johnston@avtech.aero
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 Dubai, U.A.E. AVTECH Sweden AB is listed on
NASDAQ OMX First North and has appointed Thenberg & Kinde Fondkommission AB as
Certified Adviser.