Aviation
Lufthansa relies on drones
Lufthansa is driving their plans for the operation of private UAVs forward. A subsidiary of Lufthansa Consulting is a cooperation with the Chinese Drohnenhersteller DJI has been received.
Together, commercial drone applications for major clients developed, informed the aviation group in Frankfurt on Tuesday. As examples, called the company, among other things, the Supervision and inspection of wind turbines, Pipelines, electricity, and Railways, or airport facilities. The Lufthansa Aerial Services wants the information, according to the drones as a service provider to operate pilot training and certification and may also have benefits to offer.
Easyjet using drones already
Lufthansa intends to make use of DJI, the world’s largest Drohnenhersteller in the fast-growing business, with remote-controlled aircraft to gain a foothold. DJI (in the article the model “Phantom 2 from DJI), the devices deliver, the Lufthansa subsidiary Aerial Services for commercial use can be revised. The Frankfurt group take later in the operation. Were first used for the drones, during the inspection of wind turbines. “For us, it was a Test, to see if there are customers,” said a Lufthansa spokeswoman.
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By the end of the year will decide whether the Airline in the Drohnengeschäft boarding. Lufthansa is looking for new sources of revenue, since the ancestral flight of the core business under pressure. The operation of drones is just one idea of many. According to CEO Carsten Spohr the Lufthansa because of the company’s flight school about predestined, Drohnenpiloten train. Concrete plans are there but not yet.
Through the use of drones are not only new areas of business possible, even Airlines themselves can reduce their costs. Easyjet example sets the remote-controlled aircraft for inspections of their passenger Jets.
Rapid Growth
According to experts, is the industry is facing a rapid growth: The annual sales of drones expected from 6.4 billion dollars in the year of 2014 to 11.5 billion dollars in the mid of the next decade, doubling, estimates the research firm Teal. Ten percent of them are likely to include non-military drones are eliminated.
DJI has been growing since the establishment in 2006 of five times a year. After an office in Frankfurt opened in the Chinese last year, one of the first shops at the airport of the Main metropolis. The company controls according to its own figures, 70 percent of the global market for drones. The climb called well-known backers such as Accel Partners to the Plan – the U.S. Wagniskapitalfirma was about one of the first Facebook investors. The group with 4000 employees, is now eight billion dollars valued.
dk/kle (rtr/dpa)