From British Airways' Operation Centre at Heathrow to the desk of airspace planners at UK’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), a London-based company is playing a pivotal role in transforming aviation decision-making, with the power of geospatial intelligence and the scalability of the AWS Cloud.
At Emu Analytics, we specialise in real-time geospatial software that helps airports, airlines, and the UK's CAA unlock the power of their operational data. From reducing delays for airlines, improving collaboration at busy airports, to supporting the UK’s future airspace planning, our platform turns live data into actionable insight. And powering it all behind the scenes is Amazon Web Services, enabling us to process millions of data points in real time, securely and reliably.
Aviation is a fast-moving and high-stakes environment. Small delays and miscommunication between stakeholders can ripple out quickly, costing time and impacting passengers. Emu Analytics provides a real-time digital twin software, Flo.w that helps our customers make better decisions, so they can respond instantly to unfolding events and drive strategic, long-term improvements.
Here’s how we’re supporting aviation across the UK and beyond:
British Airways uses our platform Flo.w, known internally as Mission Control, to gain real-time situational awareness of its airside operations. With intelligent and visual analytics, BA is able to make faster, more informed decisions across its ground operations
This enhanced visibility is helping the airline improve on-time performance, reduce fuel burn (and the associated carbon emissions), cut operational costs, and better manage risks and delays. Since implementing the software, British Airways has reduced delays by over 160,000 minutes, saving millions of dollars and significantly improving passenger experience. With AWS behind the scenes, Flo.w can ingest and process millions of data points daily to provide the real-time insights BA needs to keep operations moving on time.
As BA CEO Sean Doyle said in a recent press release from BA:
“Having this type of technology at our fingertips to make better operational decisions is a real gamechanger for our performance.”
At a busy multi-stakeholder airport like London Gatwick, shared visibility is key. Our platform acts as a live dashboard for airport teams, airlines, and ground handlers, to help all stakeholders improve coordination, decision-making, and communication across the board. Flo.w uses container orchestration powered by Amazon ECS, combined with auto scaling technologies, to ensure services can adapt dynamically to demand while maintaining high availability, ensuring we can always scale to fit the operational demands of our customers.
Flo.w isn't just supporting customers on the ground, it is also a key tool for the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), bringing in huge amounts of historical flight data. The CAA uses this to evaluate airspace usage, monitor aircraft movements, and plan for future changes. Everything from accommodating drones to managing spaceport activity. With AWS, we can run complex geospatial queries at speed and scale, giving the CAA the data it needs to make informed, forward-looking decisions.
While Flo.w is designed to work across cloud providers, AWS is our preferred environment for most customer deployments. As the world’s leading cloud provider, AWS offers the scale, security, resilience, and ability to support critical infrastructure, making it ideal for our work in the aviation sector.
Using AWS allows us to:
This strong cloud foundation means we can focus on what we do best: delivering powerful, real-time software for our customers with the trust in AWS to handle performance, resilience, and scalability behind the scenes.
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