The only weather tool the cargo desk keeps open.
British Airways Cargo cut weather-driven re-routes on transatlantic freight by 28% in one year.
The North Atlantic doesn't get easier.
British Airways Cargo runs one of Europe's densest transatlantic schedules, with a freighter wing and substantial belly capacity on long-haul passenger services. Convective weather, North Atlantic icing and crosswind events are the dominant operational meteorology challenges, and the cargo dispatch desk had three incumbent weather tools running on three different displays.
Three tools, three answers, one dispatcher.
The cargo dispatch desk's existing tooling produced overlapping but contradictory signals — a SIGMET overlay, a carrier meteorology brief and a third-party convective forecast. Reconciling them was, by the dispatch team's own description, the slowest part of the job during weather events.
One console, one decision, one click.
FlightSure replaced the three overlapping tools with a single re-route console, integrated with BA's existing operational systems and the carrier's ACARS bridge. The console's recommendations include the cost delta — fuel, slot, SLA — so a re-route decision is a single tap rather than a multi-step reconciliation.
One year in.
Weather-driven re-routes on monitored transatlantic lanes fell 28% in the first year. Fuel saving from improved lateral routing: ~1.4M lb / year. Average decision latency on weather events fell from 8 minutes to under 2.
South Atlantic and Asia-Pacific lanes in 2026.
The 2026 deployment extends to BA's South Atlantic and Asia-Pacific cargo lanes, with particular focus on convective forecasting in the South-East Asian monsoon season.
“It's the only weather tool the cargo dispatch desk actually keeps open. The other ones were on a screen — this one is in the workflow.”Head of Cargo OperationsBritish Airways