Condor selects Cirium as its strategic partner for aviation analytics

Cirium is now Condor's new partner for aviation analytics, with the new agreement making Cirium the airline’s single source of external aviation data, providing end-to-end data services.

The partnership between Cirium, the aviation analytics firm, and Condor, will empower the German carrier to further improve its operations, driving quality insights aimed at improving the business's efficiency and overall customer satisfaction.

As part of this new agreement, Cirium will provide the airline with three key data sets: historical flight data, schedule data, and real-time flight data.

Having utilised Cirium's historical flight data for two years, Condor's decision to now integrate Cirium’s additional suite of products presents a unique opportunity to further streamline operations, driving direct improvements for both the business and its customers.

This investment in data will enable the business to swiftly identify operational trends, allowing for quick solutions that reduce costs and enhance efficiency. It will empower teams to optimise fleet management, network planning, connections, and crew scheduling, driving significant improvements across all aspects of operations.

Cirium’s highly regarded flight schedules product is also part of the deal, offering deeper insights into service opportunities and market demand. With the up-to-date data, Condor will be able to optimise network and crew planning, boosting efficiency and profitability across the business.

The addition of Cirium’s real-time flight data will also provide live updates on aircraft around the world, meaning flights can be tracked and monitored with greater detail.

ACI World and Cirium Partner on Landmark Data Collaboration to Strengthen World’s Leading Airport Service Quality Program

Partnership solidifies ACI World’s commitment to the accuracy and reliability of customer experience data.

Airports Council International (ACI) World and Cirium, a global leader in aviation data analytics, begin a landmark collaboration to strengthen the Airport Service Quality (ASQ) program—the world’s leading airport customer experience measurement and benchmarking program.

The ASQ program's methodology is renowned for its robustness, ensuring the most accurate representation of airport traffic. In recognizing the critical role that flight databases play in the assessment of respondent sampling, Cirium will serve as the reference database for flights supporting the ASQ methodology—solidifying the ASQ program’s commitment to accuracy and reliability. Cirium’s core platform provides details on more than 35 million flights per year and covers 97% of scheduled flights worldwide.

Compared to other programs in the aviation industry, the ASQ program is based on live research via surveys gathered at the airport—direct from the traveller—rating their satisfaction on the day of travel. It serves as the basis for the annual ASQ Awards which recognize the best airports for customer experience worldwide, as selected by passengers.

Cirium’s new advance bookings technology will help airports to anticipate passenger demand

Cirium launches Diio Advance Bookings to give past, present and future insights on traveller intent, helping to anticipate passenger demand for routes and carriers......

Cirium, the leader in aviation analytics, has launched Diio Advance Bookings technology to help airports more accurately anticipate passenger demand and enhance their marketing efforts by providing insight into traveller intent.

Announced at the ACI JumpStart Air Development Conference in Milwaukee, and the 152nd IATA Slot Conference in Dublin, Ireland, this powerful tool enables users to analyze traveller booking behaviour and demand like never before.

With global coverage and data updated weekly, Diio Advance Bookings provides insights into past, present, and future traveller intent that helps stakeholders identify opportunities to attract and retain air service, improve marketing campaign performance and ROI, and allocate resources more effectively.

Cirium launches the first airline routes tool based on satellite-based flight tracking

In an industry first, the Airline Routes tool analyzes an airline’s routes using satellite-based flight tracking data to identify actual flights flown by aircraft type.

Businesses can identify aircraft demand and where airlines are growing or reducing their network to factor development opportunities or risks into decision-making.

Cirium, the aviation analytics leader, has launched the aviation industry’s first Airline Routes tool to identify actual flights flown by aircraft type.

It uses applied analytics to derive routes flown by airlines based on satellite-based flight tracking and fuses this with advanced fleet data.

The new premium Routes tool is part of Ascend Profiles, a visual descriptive analytics tool which enables businesses to quickly view aircraft intelligence by airline or lessor.

Businesses such as aircraft lessors, banks or aircraft manufacturers are empowered to identify the aircraft flown by route for 1,700 airlines and factor development opportunities or risk into their decision making.

By leveraging satellite-based flight tracking data the tool identifies what routes and aircraft airlines actually flew rather than what they planned to fly providing the most accurate flight completion picture.

Kevin Hightower, Cirium VP of Product said: “The Airline Routes tool is the first of its kind to bring together such advanced data – the satellite-based flight tracking and the comprehensive fleet data – meaning businesses can conduct quick yet accurate due diligence on an airline portfolio.

Travel industry to benefit with enhanced flight search and booking from Cirium and Amadeus deal

Amadeus integrates Cirium’s advanced flight schedules data into its Travel Platform solutions, enriching the available dataset for flight and search bookings

The deal expands the decade-long partnership between the two industry leaders

Access to the new data continues to enhance the search and booking experience for travel sellers and travellers

Cirium has signed a deal with Amadeus to provide its advanced flight schedules data into the Amadeus Travel Platform, further enhancing the dataset available for flight search and bookings.

As one of the travel industry’s technology leaders, complete and timely data is essential for Amadeus to deliver high quality information to customers. The new deal means that Cirium’s comprehensive schedules data will be integrated into the Amadeus Travel Platform, benefitting many Amadeus clients in the travel space, including airlines, travel providers and more.

Jeremy Bowen, Cirium CEO said: “Combining two leaders in their respective fields in the travel industry, through the expansion of Cirium’s partnership with Amadeus, will further improve flight search and bookings, as well as enable the industry to unlock new market opportunities, maximize revenue and produce a more efficient experience for the traveler. Our new partnership goes beyond providing global flight schedules to the Amadeus Schedules Analytics tool. It enhances its industry-leading Travel Platform, allowing Cirium’s schedules data to enrich the quality of information for Amadeus customers.”

Sam Abdou, Executive Vice President, Air, Rail & Global Online, Amadeus said: “The expansion of our partnership with Cirium and further integration of its data into our multi-sourced air schedules data platform enriches our dataset and contributes to maintaining a high data accuracy and bookability for our customers.”

Vueling and Cirium agree deal for Cirium Sky, to improve airline operational performance

Vueling, an airline which forms part of IAG (International Airlines Group), has signed a landmark deal with Cirium, the aviation analytics company, to improve airline operational efficiencies through the Cirium Sky managed data warehouse and analytics solution.

The multi-year deal provides Vueling, with access to Cirium’s new data aviation warehouse and analytics capability.

This partnership will allow the airline to gain a unique insight from over 25 operational factors and ultimately provide a best-in-traveller experience.

Cirium Sky will enable more effective flight planning, especially around disruption, to minimize delays for its customers.

Jeremy Bowen, Cirium CEO, said: “Our aviation data warehouse, Cirium Sky, is critical in supporting Vueling’s digital transformation initiatives and will enable the airline to improve flight operations, reduce travel delays and set the stage for operational excellence.”

Vueling is viewed by Cirium as the agile and innovative leader in IAG thanks to the implementation of several initiatives, including Vueling Transform, to unlock its full potential through digitization and low-cost leadership.

Oliver Iffert, Vueling's Chief Operations Officer, said: “Coming out of the pandemic, Vueling is emerging even more efficient and competitive as we prioritize actionable insights backed by a wealth of data and context.”

“Data is key to assessing our operations and identifying ways to provide a passenger experience that stands out.”

“Using Cirium Sky, Vueling can plan flights more effectively and analyze flight delays based on accurate data. We will, as a result, drive a reduction in delays and minimize disruptions.”

December was Busiest Month for Air Travel Globally in 2021; Over 59,000 Flights Are Canceled Near Year-End, the Most in a Decade

 Aviation analytics firm Cirium, reveals that December was the busiest month in 2021 for flights globally, totalling 2.43 million, however, the total number of flights cancelled globally between December 24, 2021, and January 3, 2022, was 59,240, some 2.4%.

Cirium’s On-Time Performance Review 2021 reveals December as the busiest month in 2021 for flights flown globally – a total of 2.43 million

Over 59,240 flights have been canceled globally from December 24 to January 3 – the most flight cancelations in December for the past decade

20,500 of these flight cancelations happened over the first three days of the new year

The big four US airlines canceled a total of nearly 7,040 flights between December 24 and January 3

American Airlines flew the most flights in 2021 at around 1,850,050

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport was the busiest global airport this year and ranked 15th in the Top 20 Global airports for on-time performance

The number of cancellations over this period is the most cancellations in December for the past decade, six times more than the cancellations in 2019 and two and half times more than 2020. A total of 20,500 flights were cancelled in the first three days of the new year.

The big four US airlines, including American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines and United Airlines, canceled nearly 7,040 flights over this period.

The cancelations are driven by the surging cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 and other operational challenges (including winter weather). Airlines rapidly cancelled flights due to staff shortages across crew and ground operations.

Pre-Omicron, global flights flown increased 1.5% week-over-week (December 11-17, 2021). However, global flights are now down 5% compared to the week prior, following the impact of Omicron.

There are large variances between the regions, with the US, Europe and North Atlantic down 9-10%, China up 6%, while Asia-Pacific and Middle East are flat.

Click here to download the complimentary On-Time Performance Review 2021.

Airlines were on time in 2020, but passenger flights operated halved compared to 2019

Over 180 of 300 airlines around the world achieved a 90% or higher on-time arrival since February 2020.

Atlanta was the busiest airport globally based on flights operated in 2020, taking the top spot from Chicago O’Hare;

Three Chinese airports vaulted into the top 10 global airports by flights operated.

76% of Chinese passenger flights operated despite the pandemic. The US (58%), India (50%) and UK (33%) saw major reductions in flight volume.

Southwest Airlines operated the most flights in 2020;

China Southern Airlines, China Eastern Airlines and Air China climbed in the top 10 airlines.

 

Over 180 of the major global airlines were on time in 2020, according to a new report by Cirium, the global aviation data company. The Cirium Airline Insights Review 2020 reveals that only 30 major airlines achieved this standard pre-pandemic. But over 60%—or 180 of 300 airlines globally—achieved a 90% or higher on-time arrival percentage since February 2020.

On-time performance of the top 300 global airlines significantly improved as COVID-19 reduced the number of flights in the air. In 2020, airlines only flew half of the flights flown the previous year.

“The pandemic caused a significant reduction in flight volume with airlines operating 49% fewer flights in 2020. The factors that normally cause flight delays didn’t exist, such as congestion at the airport. Overall global passenger traffic was down in 2020 by 67% from the previous year,” said Jeremy Bowen, CEO of Cirium.