Fuel Efficiency Program demo

Target: 1% of fleet fuel, about $51 million a year, every gallon measured on real flights. 1:34

What the demo shows

A crew of agents finds fleet fuel savings and tracks each one, for fuel efficiency teams

Each initiative is one line: its claimed gallons, the gallons measured from flight data, adoption at the top stations and its status, with one open line at the top where the Fuel Program agent proposes a new saving it found that week. A flight data agent reads every flight's de-identified data; a measurement agent measures adoption and savings against a matched baseline; a checker agent re-computes every figure independently; the Fuel Program agent mines the data for new savings and a trial design agent designs the measured trial; a bulletin agent drafts the pilot bulletin from the operations manual; a reporting agent turns savings into cost and CO2. The Director of Fuel Efficiency asks the agents about any initiative or station and approves trials and retirements with a reason code; the Chief Pilot signs anything that reaches crews.

Transcript

  1. Fuel Efficiency Program, a crew of agents that finds fleet fuel savings and tracks each one for airline fuel teams.
  2. Fuel is a third of airline costs.
  3. 1% of a $5 billion bill is $50 million.
  4. Each initiative is one line, claimed savings, measured savings, and adoption by station.
  5. New this week, APU's running 47 minutes before first departures at O'Hare.
  6. At Denver, single-engine taxi-in rose from 41 to 68 percent, 312,000 gallons a year.
  7. Nora asks why Houston is low, short taxi-ins, so the agent suggests a nine-minute threshold.
  8. Nora approves with a reason code.
  9. The bulletin agent drafts the pilot bulletin.
  10. The chief pilot signs it.
  11. Nothing reaches crews without him.
  12. Every value cited, every decision signed, every step logged, no pilot ever named.
  13. Measured today, 10.7 million gallons a year, 39 million dollars, 102,000 tons of CO2.
  14. Built on Botminds: agents, data, screens, and governance on one platform.

Transcribed from the film’s narration. Captions are on the player.