Data Integration Software Is Revolutionizing Airline Travel

Helping Airlines Decrease Delays

Improving Airline Maintenance

The travel industry has always collected large amounts of structured data from airline reservations to hotel bookings. In today's big data world, there is a staggering amount of unstructured data, transactional data and sensor data available. Informatica’s data integration software and services can access, aggregate, and manage any type of data to provide timely and trustworthy results, benefitting the travel industry and travelers alike.

Getting Insights from Social Data

of U.S. delays were due to air carrier delays

Compares information from boarding pass with central flight information

Determines if a passenger is in the correct terminal or if they have enough time to board their flight

of delays were due to late-arriving aircraft

Positive Boarding System

5,400 25%

41%

32% In 2012

The FAA reported that delays in 2010 cost U.S. airlines

flights travel through Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark airports on a typical summer day

or more of these flights are, on average, delayed

During a trial program at London Heathrow

44% 700 10could have delayed

their flightreceived hurry-up messages

were sent back to check-in

1%

1%

$250m

$30b

26 sensors per engine measure temperature, airflow, and turbine spin rates which equates to 5,000 data points per second.

Over a long-distance flight, this amounts to

A GEnx engine can send data on the resonant frequency of every critical bearing in the engine to detect whether the bearings are wearing out and need replacing–this helps reduce maintenance delays.

savings over 15 yearsimprovement in fuel savings

reduction in commercial jet engine maintenance costs

reduction on the maintenance bill

of the total maintenance bill for global airlines is for engine maintenance

Delays due to maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO), cost air carriers $10,000 for every hour spent on the ground.

analyzed, per engine, which can be analyzed and operationalized.

43%

GE’s GEnx Jet Engine

150 MILLION PIECES OF DATA

of tweets from travelers in airports

are customer-service related

of airlines plan to increase their social media

budgets in 2013

of airlines rate mobile services for

passengers as a key investment priority

of airlines are allocating part of their marketing

budgets specifically to social media

88% 95% 70% 85%

More than 16 billion transport and event tickets a year will be delivered to mobile handsets globally by 2018.

Informatica Vibe™ Virtual Data Machine is an embeddable data management engine that can access, aggregate, and manage any type of data. Vibe gives developers the power to map data once and deploy anywhere—in any application and on any appliance or device—regardless of the data's format or whether it resides on-premise or in the Cloud.

Read more: http://www.informatica.com/us/products/data-integration/vibe/

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