Cirium, an aviation analytics company, provides data and analytics to help airlines, airports, aircraft manufacturers, financial institutions and other organizations across the aviation industry make informed operational and business decisions.
To provide customers with a more complete view of aircraft operations, Cirium needed reliable, high-quality positional information to complement its existing schedule, fleet, flight status, weather, and emissions data. Cirium selected Aireon for its global space-based automatic dependent surveillance broadcast (ADS-B) coverage and end-to-end capabilities across data capture, coverage and quality.
Aireon and Cirium began their partnership in 2022, integrating Aireon’s global aircraft positional data with Cirium’s extensive aviation datasets. Following a successful first year in 2022, the companies expanded their agreement, for Aireon to provide Cirium with live aircraft positional analytics, supporting advanced situational awareness and post-operations analysis.
By matching Aireon’s precise positional information with specific aircraft IDs and flight numbers, Cirium can create a more comprehensive stream of gate-to-gate flight data and make information easier to integrate into airline and fleet tracking applications.
The combination of Aireon’s space-based ADS-B data and Cirium’s aviation analytics provides customers with a more complete view of flight activity, supporting:
- Improved estimated time of arrival (ETA) and flight connection efficiencies
- More effective delay diagnosis
- Greater intelligence into aircraft taxi times
- Enhanced airline and fleet tracking capabilities
