Korean Air has signed an agreement to adopt Airbus’s Skywise Fleet Performance+ (S.FP+), replacing its existing Skywise Predictive Maintenance+ and Skywise Health Monitoring tools. Formalised at MRO Europe on Oct. 16, the move upgrades the carrier’s data-driven predictive maintenance to improve fleet reliability and availability.
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The carrier is replacing legacy Skywise modules with S.FP+, a step that should tighten predictive maintenance, cut unscheduled removals and raise aircraft availability—a move that aligns with the sector’s broader shift toward digital services and analytics (see Airbus’s forecast on rising services and digital demand: https://hype.aero/?story=92c3f4a9-d8a1-47e2-b737-210edde36e8e).
Korean Air’s upgrade underscores airlines’ strategic push to bolster in-house reliability and negotiate new MRO footprints or partnerships in APAC; it complements recent carrier-led MRO consolidation and facility planning in the region (context on carrier MRO collaboration and regional capacity: https://hype.aero/?story=47326edf-1995-4892-bdfe-2a76f0488d35 and the trend toward large outsourced MRO agreements: https://hype.aero/?story=d4aa67bb-b52e-4770-a6e4-11f4b674bb46).
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