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PRESS RELEASE
08.03.2017
WORLD ATM CONGRESS
Thales and Météo-France form partnership to
provide ECOsystem customers with
global weather services
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At World ATM Congress 2017, Thales, world leader in Air Traffic
Management, announces an agreement with Météo-France,
international supplier of meteorological information systems, to
integrate global weather services into Thales’s ECOsystem1
decision support platform for improved aviation operations.
In many areas around the world, air traffic control is performed without
the ability to account for the impact of severe weather phenomena like
thunderstorms, leaving the pilots managing weather avoidance, and
leaving Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs) developing reactive
measures based on pilots’ requests.
By embedding Météo-France weather data into ECOsystem and
leveraging the platform’s Air Traffic Flow Management (ATFM)
application, ANSPs receive high accuracy prediction of severe weather
Key Points

Thales and Météo-France
signed an agreement to
integrate global weather
services into ECOsystem.
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With the ability to anticipate
severe weather, ECOsystem
users experience reduced
traffic disruption, increased
passenger comfort, and more
predictable air traffic
controller and pilot peak work
load.

At World ATM Congress
2016, Thales launched
ECOsystem’s first application,
Advanced Traffic Flow
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activity en route and at airports, enabling severe weather mitigation to
move from being reactive to proactive. The result is shorter avoidance
routes; reduced fuel consumption and CO2 emissions; better adaptation
of ATC sectorization plans and ATCO workload to actual airspace
capacity; and better tuning of weather-induced regulations, resulting in
reduced ground delays. Analysis performed during the SESAR
TOPLINK Large Scale Demonstration estimated 1 million minutes of
ground delay holding could be eliminated in Europe, delivering a
potential cost benefit of up to 50 M€.
In addition to ANSP benefits, Airport operators will benefit from better
anticipation of airport runway capacity reduction, as well as improved
support to weather-dependent decisions, such as runway configuration
changes or deicing needs.
Lastly, Airlines will benefit on the ground (flight dispatchers) and in the
cockpit (pilots) as a result of anticipated flight management decisions in
regard to severe weather avoidance.
This commercial partnership is an extension of joint Thales and MétéoFrance research activities conducted since 2011 for the TOPMET and
TOPLINK SESAR projects.
“This partnership with THALES allows Météo-France to propose its
forecasts on the globe to users of the whole world. Indeed with
ECOsystem, all the aeronautical actors can benefit from meteorological
information integrated into their tools.”
Emmanuel Cloppet, Head of the sales management,
Météo -France
Management, and in 2017, is
launching the second
application, Unmanned Aerial
System Traffic management.
“Thales is committed to
partnering with customers
and industry leaders to
propel our innovation from
concept to reality.
ECOsystem, augmented by
Météo-France weather data,
is one example. With the
infusion of high-quality
weather observations and
predictions, ECOsystem
ATFM can provide the
aviation community with
superior flow management,
optimizing airspace capacity
and efficiency,”
Jean-Marc Alias, Thales Vice
President in Charge of ATM business
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Notes to editors
1. Leveraging more than 10 years of research and technology
innovation, ECOsystem moved from concept to reality to enable
ANSPs, airlines and airport operators to plan, monitor, manage and
assess aviation operations for better decisions and better results.
Through a suite of tools and predictive analytics, stakeholders
optimize their operations, as well as contribute to global
optimization through data sharing and collaborative applications.
Further, ECOsystem is configurable to the customers’ operational
requirements, from a global cloud-hosted service, to a local singlefacility deployment.
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Air Traffic Management
Communications
Beth Larson
Tel +1 315 459 1896
[email protected]
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Two out of three aircraft take off, reach their destination and land
thanks to Thales’s systems.
Participating in all 3 major initiatives for the restructuring of global
ATM: Number 1 industrial partner to SESAR, involved in NextGen
and ICAO Block Upgrades, Thales fully integrates all of these
evolutions in its product roadmap.
About Thales
Thales is a global technology leader for the Aerospace, Transport,
Defence and Security markets. With 62,000 employees in 56
countries, Thales reported sales of €14 billion in 2015. With over
25,000 engineers and researchers, Thales has a unique capability
to design and deploy equipment, systems and services to meet the
most complex security requirements. Its exceptional international
footprint allows it to work closely with its customers all over the
world.
About Météo-France
As the national meteorological and climate service, Météo-France
is in charge of the meteorological safety of people and property in
France. Météo-France has several major missions: the
development and maintenance of an observation network, the
collection and processing of climatological data, weather
forecasting, elaborating climate projections and lastly research and
training in the different areas of meteorology and climate. On the
international stage, Météo-France is one of the world's references
in Meteorological Services and plays a significant role within
leading organisations involved in meteorological cooperation
including the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.
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