Air France Adopts Boeing's Airplane Health Management System

Air France has adopted for Boeing's Airplane Health Management (AHM) system for its 42 B-777s and 21 B-747s.

AHM uses real-time airplane data to provide enhanced fault forwarding, troubleshooting and historical fix information to reduce maintenance-caused schedule interruptions and to increase maintenance efficiency.

In September, Air France announced its decision to put Boeing's class-3 EFBs (electronic flight bags) on its entire fleet of 777s.  Since a class-3 EFB is an integrated part of an airplane's avionics system, it can serve as a direct communications gateway for passing fault and other aircraft status information between the airplane and an airline's operations and maintenance centers on the ground.

Air France was a developmental partner for the original AHM release, and it is the first Europe-based AHM customer. 12-16-2006.