Training

Fuel Efficiency and Conservation


Want to save 3% to 5% on your fuel bill? Join our fuel management and operation optimisation course.


How You Will Benefit

  • Increase fuel efficiency while improving safety
  • Measure the impact of fuel management on your operation
  • Improve On-Time performance while decreasing your costs
  • Maximize the use of cost index optimisation in your operation
  • Perform a "Fuel Efficiency" audit of your own organization
  • Identify areas and operational techniques that can save on fuel consumption
  • Develop skills that can be used within your organisation to, recognise deficiencies, identify opportunities and implement fuel efficiency actions
  • Gain insight into various organizational approaches to manage fuel efficiency programmes
  • Develop a Fuel Management (MI) system to track all aspects of fuel consumption
  • Develop a Fuel Champion responsibility statement for your organisation
  • Understand the positive relationship between effective fuel management and environmental responsibility
  • Build an environmental profile of your operation

Designed for

  • Flight Operations Managers
  • Flight Dispatchers
  • Operations Controllers
  • Air Traffic Control and Traffic Management
  • Engineering and Maintenance
  • Ground Operations and Ramp Control
  • Aviation Environmentalist

Course Content

  • Efficient fuel management and operational costs
  • Oil prices, trends and impact on the overall airline budget
  • Efficient fuel management and flight safety
  • Measure the environmental impact of your operation
  • Tracking fuel: Fuel Management Information System
  • Develop your fuel cost calculator and track improvement of each initiative
  • Compute your Fleet Cost Indices
  • The role of the Dispatcher in fuel conservation
  • Re-dispatch for fuel savings and increasing payload
  • When to tanker and when not to tanker
  • Alternate selection and no alternate IFR
  • Minimize operational cost using dynamic cost index optimization
  • Is your airline fuel policy costing you money?
  • Review of Efficient Flight Planning Systems
  • Maximizing the use of the flight dispatch organization
  • Role of System Operations Control in minimizing cost
  • Aircraft weight management
  • Centre of gravity management
  • Ramp operation and its impact on fuel management
  • APU management
  • Flight operations initiatives
  • Maintenance
  • Develop your fuel training program
  • Familiarization flight program for ATC and Dispatchers
Click here to learn more about our IATA Fuel Action Campaign

Course availability

If a session is not listed below, this course is not scheduled for classroom delivery at this time.

Ask about onsite delivery - All IATA classroom courses can be customised to your needs and delivered onsite for groups at your location.
Contact us  to learn more about this cost-effective option.

April 19 - April 21, 2010
Beijing, ChinaClass No : 19152
July 12 - July 14, 2010
Geneva, SwitzerlandClass No : 18682

Did you know?
Each 1% improvement in fuel efficiency across the industry can lower fuel costs by $700 million per year.
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Onsite Training
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