(CercleFinance.com) – Southwest Airlines has chosen AvioBook, a Thales group company, to equip its fleet with a cutting-edge technological portfolio. With AvioBook, Southwest aims to further optimize its operations with environmentally friendly solutions.
The agreement includes the fully integrated electronic flight data (EFB) and electronic logbook (eLB) solution.
AvioBook will eliminate the 88 million paper pages still printed each year and give users the confidence of having the latest information at their fingertips, with data updated as the situation evolves .
Southwest also signed an agreement to equip the world’s largest fleet of Boeing 737 NG aircraft with AvioBook’s Aeronautical Interface Device (AID), known as AvioCast.
Once installed, it will provide real-time aircraft data to different operational groups.
‘To guarantee full user engagement, implementation will be gradual and the first benefits of the project should be visible in 2024,’ specifies Thales.