United Airlines has signed on for Airbus’s Skywise platform that tracks aircraft data for enhanced predictive maintenance and engineering capabilities. Skywise enables airlines to store, manage, and analyze data, as well as benchmark against trends of other airline users. The open-ended platform has built-in flexibility for users to develop and implement their own analytical products.

The system connects with the Palantir Foundry data integration platform that United began using in 2018. The combination of the two, said Praveen Sharma, United v-p of digital products and analytics, “will allow us to maximize the performance of our Airbus fleet by analyzing the best data we have available and using those insights to continuously improve our operation.”

Airbus (Static Display C4) launched Skywise in 2017 and more than 70 airlines are now connected to the platform.