Aircraft
Delta Extends Airbus Skywise Contract To Cover 400 Airliners
Airbus predicative maintenance system adds to efficiency of airline operations, aids in parts design
Delta Air Lines now uses the Skywise program to help predict maintenance needs for its fleet of Airbus A330-300s. (Photo: Airbus)
Delta Air Lines now uses the Skywise program to help predict maintenance needs for its fleet of Airbus A330-300s. (Photo: Airbus)

Airbus added some 400 airplanes to the ranks of a worldwide fleet of airliners now benefitting from its Skywise predictive maintenance service as Delta Air Lines on Monday entered into a multi-year contract to expand its use of the tool to include all of its A320s and A330s. The so-called open-data platform tracks and analyzes operations and performance data and assesses failure probabilities to anticipate maintenance tasks. Since the program’s introduction at the 2017 Paris Airshow, Airbus has signed contracts with 29 Skywise customers covering more than 3,000 aircraft.