easyJet is flying with a paperless cockpit

Lufthansa Systems today announced that the British carrier easyJet is relying on its aeronautical solutions for flight operations. The airline has opted for the Lido/eRouteManual cockpit solutions as well as the Lido/iRouteManual and Lido/Enroute apps, thereby migrating from its old paper-based navigation charts to a digital solution. Since the end of May, easyJet has been flying with entirely paperless cockpits.

The electronic Lido/eRouteManual provides easyJet with navigation charts for take-off and landing procedures as well as airport and route charts. The charts are based directly on the Lido navigation database and contain all important route information including altitude and airport data. They display true-to-scale geographic information such as terrain features and rivers. The charts for easyJet will be updated once every two weeks and are available for download by the carrier’s pilots. The electronic Lido/eRouteManual solution is easy and intuitive to use and enables fast, continuous access to all relevant flight data. Lido/eRouteManual has been gradually rolled out to the easyJet fleet since April 2014.

For flexible flight preparation, briefings and training, easyJet is additionally using the Lido/iRouteManual and Lido/Enroute apps, which also display IFR (instrument flight rules) charts and completely dynamically generated enroute charts on the Apple iPad.

“The navigation charts are of an outstanding quality and really intuitive to use. The great user-friendliness of the electronic charts completely won us over,” said Warwick Brady, Chief Operating Officer of easyJet. “Reliable processes between flight support at easyJet and customer support at Lufthansa Systems were also very important to us. We are very satisfied with our collaboration with Lufthansa Systems so far and look forward to our continued cooperation.”

Along with their user-friendliness, the electronic navigation charts offer economic advantages: The airline can lower its printing and logistics costs, and the lighter weight means reduced fuel costs as well. There is also less effort for the crew since the charts no longer have to be printed out and distributed to all cockpits before every flight but can instead be downloaded quickly and easily to the on-board computer or an iPad.

“We are delighted to count easyJet among the customers of our cockpit solutions. Our electronic navigation charts give easyJet’s pilots access to all important information on all required routes and airports in a clear and easily legible layout, enabling them to make a smooth transition to the paperless cockpit,” said Marco Cesa, Senior Vice President Regional Management EMEA at Lufthansa Systems.

Established in 1995 and based in Luton near London, the British airline easyJet is one of Europe’s leading carriers. The airline operates a fleet of more than 200 aircraft on over 600 routes in more than 30 countries. In the past 12 months, around 63 million passengers have flown easyJet.