Cathay Pacific Equipping its B-777s and 747s with Boeing's Health Management System

Cathay Pacific Airways is the latest of several major airlines that will license Boeing's inflight airplane monitoring system to track maintenance trends and report anomalies.  Cathay will use the system on its B-777s and 747-400s.

Boeing's Airplane Health Management (AHM) provides real-time maintenance information to airlines that can be used to address potential problems while an aircraft is still in flight.  While designed to be a stand-alone fault-forwarding and prognostic tool, it is intended to be integrated with an airline's existing maintenance and engineering systems.

In addition, Boeing sees AHM as supporting long-term fleet reliability programs by helping airlines to identify recurring faults and trends.  Data collected from one airline can actually guide repair decisions, based on history and fleet experience, at another airline operating the same airplanes.  04-29-2006.

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