How Expertise Is Driving Refueling Effectivity At Hong Kong Airport

Hong Kong is teaming as much as supply one of the best fueling companies throughout the board.

Hong Kong Worldwide Airport’s (HKG) largest fueling supplier has teamed up with the i6 Group to optimize its refueling operations. AFSC will now have entry to real-time information to handle gasoline know-how on the airport, saving 1000’s of {dollars} and time. Let’s discover out extra.

Utilizing information

Refueling plane has lengthy been a fundamental system utilizing high-powered strains to ship as much as 1000 liters a minute, monitored by programs on the low-rise vans and onboard. Whereas advances have been made, primarily within the areas of calculating the gasoline load, built-in administration programs have been slower to be adopted.

Nonetheless, one airport has now taken the leap to combine i6’s gasoline administration know-how, often known as Fusion. Hong Kong Worldwide beforehand deployed the system and now seeking to rollout throughout the airport’s tons of of each day flights. In a press release, Steve Uhrmacher, CEO of the i6 Group, stated,

“Our partnership with AFSC demonstrates our world dedication to the aviation trade. As we proceed to broaden, we additionally proceed to allow a wiser and greener method of working. We’re trying ahead to growing our partnership with AFSC and enhancing their service for his or her Airline prospects.”

With an general eye for effectivity, there might be a bunch of latest choices for the airport to supply now, that are detailed beneath. From reside monitoring for gasoline autos, loading time, custom-made flight, and dynamic prediction to allocate orders. From integrating oil reserve tankers to autos to plane, the system will minimize down on time and wastage considerably. Easy Flying beforehand lined how Manchester Airport makes use of i6 to chop delays.

Increasing

i6 Group isn’t any stranger to working with main airways and airports. The corporate lists JetBlue, British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, Air Canada, KLM, and logistics agency Menzies Aviation amongst its rising checklist of shoppers. In complete, 150 airport gasoline suppliers all over the world use Fusion, with HKG solely the most recent.

Pilots will really feel the modifications as properly, with the power to go utterly paperless by connecting with refuelers over the eHandshake utility, the place they will overview and log off on gasoline hundreds. This makes for sooner turnarounds and retains all events within the loop with out guide interplay of any form.

Photograph: Joe Kunzler | Easy Flying

Digitalizing this previous and sophisticated system is just not straightforward and requires care to make sure all security precautions are taken. Nonetheless, tons of of gasoline suppliers and shoppers now use i6’s programs in some capability, indicating a extremely profitable product that may assist passengers, airports, and airways alike.

The effectivity good points do not solely assist airport and airline backside strains. They influence the atmosphere too. Because the trade targets a net-zero future, i6’s five-year examine for long-haul flights has discovered that flights utilizing its into-plane refueling saves 65kgs of gasoline per flight, 201kgs of CO2, and reduces operational expense by $240. Whereas this doesn’t look like a lot on a per-flight foundation, it’s a massive achieve over 1000’s of each day flights.

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  Hong Kong Worldwide Airport

  IATA/ICAO Code:

  HKG/VHHH

  Nation:

  China (Particular Administrative Area)

  CEO:

  Fred Lam

  Passenger Rely :

  1,196,000 (2021)

  Runways :

  07R/25L – 3,800m (12,467ft) |07L/25R – 3,800m (12,467ft)

  Terminals:

  Terminal 1 |Terminal 2