IAG Standardizes Fuel-Efficiency Tracking Across Five Airlines With a Single Platform

International Airlines Group has selected OpenAirlines' SkyBreathe platform to standardise fuel-efficiency monitoring across its five airline brands — British Airways, Iberia, Aer Lingus, Vueling and LEVEL — covering more than 600 aircraft group-wide, the companies announced on September 29. SkyBreathe analyses operational data including flight plans, weather conditions and individual aircraft performance to identify specific opportunities to reduce fuel burn, and the platform's unified reporting framework will let IAG compare fuel performance consistently across airlines that previously tracked the metric using different tools and methodologies. IAG chief financial officer José Antonio Barrionuevo said fuel represents "one of the largest costs for our airlines," and that the deeper operational insight the platform provides should help the group "identify savings more quickly and reduce unnecessary fuel burn" across its combined fleet. OpenAirlines founder and chief executive Alexandre Feray said the company was "honoured" to support IAG's move to a single fuel-management platform. The standardisation effort comes as fuel costs remain a persistent pressure point across the airline industry, and follows a broader trend of large airline groups consolidating previously airline-specific operational software onto shared platforms to capture group-wide efficiencies and benchmarking that individual subsidiaries can't achieve on their own. No financial terms of the agreement were disclosed.