Green Aviation Insights

Accelerating sustainable aviation together

Green Aviation Insights

Accelerating sustainable aviation together

What is GAIN?

Most commercial flights are under the watch of an Air Navigation Service Provider; these organisations play a vital and unique role in ensuring aircraft operate safely and efficiently.​

Green Aviation Insights (GAIN) is the first global benchmarking, reporting and collaboration data platform that helps Air Navigation Service Providers collectively take action to decrease emissions in the airspace they manage. ​

It helps them to better understand the efficiency of the airspace, identify opportunities for improvement, measure outcomes and benefit from shared experience and expertise of peers.​

Working together, GAIN aims to support ANSPs in making aviation more sustainable.​


Benefits

Reliability​

Aids consistent delivery of safe, efficient and reliable services to airline customers.

Compliance

Provides data to aid reporting and ensure adherence to environmental regulatory frameworks, including ICAO, CORSIA and EU ETS.

Emissions

Quantifies emission reductions to bolster resilience in the context of evolving environmental regulations and stakeholder expectations.

Reputation

Provides tangible, quantifiable evidence of progress towards carbon reduction goals and commitment to industry targets.

Decision Making

Informs the decision-making process with accurate, real-time environmental performance data that can drive impactful improvements (from ground to air).

How GAIN works

Delivering a better understanding of data

GAIN is no ordinary dashboard. This digital sustainability partner is specifically designed to answer the 'why'. Interpreting data, highlighting hotspots and delivering key action points enables teams to respond, innovate and improve operations while reducing overall environmental impact.

GAIN is following an agile, user-centred design process to promote collaboration, so its full list of features will evolve during the development phase. Founding Members have priority input on the initial feature set.

Features

Hotspot detection
Understand operational issues and act accordingly.
Trend identification & tracking
Improve knowledge and create opportunities for improvement.
Advanced analytics
Baseline your airspace efficiency using data analytics and robust algorithms.
Accurate, automatic reporting
Generate key insights and share with your stakeholders.
Contextual tagging
Develop rich, relevant data sets for your teams to analyse.
Interactive case studies
Access data, research and best practices.
Anonymous benchmarking
Compare environmental performance with industry peers.
Role-specific configuration
Set preferences and KPIs for different user types.

What is the timeline?

Today
  • Conducting user research: One-to-one interviews with aviation industry professionals.
  • Analysing results: Generating in-depth reports collating user requirements and comments.
  • Early UX/UI development: Concepts, user journeys, profiles and feature list priority.
  • Prospective Founding Member meetings: Providing a project overview of GAIN and discussing the benefits of collaborative opportunities.
  • Signing up Founding Members: Onboarding progressive ANSPS to join the global GAIN user community.
The Trial
  • Progressing UX/UI development: Building on preliminary work, making adjustments where necessary.
  • Finalising initial feature set: Creating a list of tools to move into MVP development.
  • Internal user testing: Conducted by GAIN's development team to ensure bugs are fixed.
  • Founding Members testing: MVP is presented to all GAIN's Founding Members for them to test and review.
  • Analysing results: Collating comments and usability feedback to apply to the next iteration of GAIN.
The Vision
  • Customisable dashboard: Analytical tools with hotspot detection, target setting, and benchmarking.
  • Creating meaningful change: Using accurate data and intelligent insights, to deliver measurable impact.
  • Not-for-profit: A cost-effective sustainability performance platform to support ANSPs of all sizes.
  • Enabling global collaboration: Sharing case studies, best practices and cutting-edge research to benefit us all.
  • The universal standard: Collaborating with ANSPs, governments, and regulatory bodies to shape sustainable aviation's future.

Trailblazers required

GAIN is a cutting-edge, not-for-profit initiative. Our global research community is leading the way to a more sustainable future in aviation. We are currently welcoming Founding Members. If you're interested in joining, please get in touch.

  • First access to GAIN on launch
  • Priority input on initial feature set
  • Your airspace is the focus of development
  • Membership and co-governance of the GAIN user group
  • Inclusion in environmental publicity activities

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Founding members

GAIN is spearheaded by industry-leading ANSPs – NATS, CAAM, skeyes, and AZANS – with CANSO as an observer. Collectively, these Founding Members oversee ~10% of global daily air traffic and are committed to refining the platform through trials, sharing data, and identifying new ways to reduce emissions. Based on historical performance indicators, the Founding Members could achieve annual CO2 savings of up to ~400,000 tonnes.

Aviation is now entering its fourth major revolution. The first made planes fly, the second focused on safety, the third democratised air travel… the fourth centres on sustainability, representing a fundamental change in how the aerospace industry operates.

Forbes, Sustainable Aviation: Navigating the Fourth Revolution in Aerospace, 2024

Resources

Take a closer look at the environmentally focused research, development and technology at NATS.

3Di explained

How does NATS' three-dimensional insight work? How can 3Di measure airspace environmental efficiency?

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Minimising noise in aviation

Reducing noise and emissions is a priority for efficient operations. Here's how we're managing the impact on communities and environment.

Find out more

Airspace modernisation

What does the future of aviation look like? How we're managing and modernising airspaces for the next generation.

Find out more

The aviation industry's race to Net Zero

No time like the present

Air travel is expected to double by 2040. Achieving Net Zero by 2050 requires nothing less than decisive, co-ordinated action today.

Green is good for trade

Tackling inefficiencies can reduce costs and transform the way we all do business. GAIN identifies hot spots, provides understanding and prompts action.

Strength in numbers

Climate change affects us all, but together we can create positive change. GAIN is both a cost-effective, data-driven solution and a powerful research community.

Boost compliance

GAIN produces measurable results. Track trends, create targeted initiatives and generate automatic reports to share with stakeholders and beyond.

Reaching net zero CO2 in air transport by 2050 is achievable, and depends on all industry partners and stakeholders being united in this ambition.

IATA, 'Aircraft Technology Net Zero Roadmap' report, 2024

Contact us

Request a demo video or more information from our expert

Rachel Gardner-Poole / NATS Chair of the GAIN community

Rachel has extensive experience in the aviation, science, and technology sectors holding senior roles at the UK Civil Aviation Authority, the UK Space Agency, and Connected Places Catapult. She has led transformational programmes focused on enhancing organisational effectiveness and previously chaired the UK Jet Zero Council Zero Emission Flight Delivery Group.

Rachel is now a Board Advisor for Astroscale, a space sustainability company and a Director of Aviascia, providing consultancy services in sustainability and transformation. She is also a Director of EmPower Flight, advancing sustainable and inclusive flight training and serves on the Board of the world’s largest air humanitarian charity. As a Chartered Mathematician, a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Rachel previously held a commercial pilot licence.

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