🌍✈️ FLIGHTKEYS Research and Development at the 2025 Flightkeys GmbH User Group Meeting (UGM)

💡Last week we hosted our annual UGM in Vienna, Austria. The UGM is a dedicated forum where we bring together our users, partners, and stakeholders to exchange feedback, share developments, and collaboratively shape the direction of our solutions. It’s a space for open dialogue — bridging operational experience, regulatory needs, and technical innovation — to ensure that our tools and strategies not only meet real-world demands but also anticipate the challenges ahead.

As the R&D team, we explored the intersection of technology, regulation, and sustainability, presenting key developments and insights through our presentations titled: 

1️⃣"Research and Development Updates" by Alejandra Martín Frías, Head of Contrail Research and Sustainability, and Larissa Houston, Research and Development Project Manager. 

2️⃣"Cost Optimized Flights" by Raimund Zopp, Director of Innovation. 

Together, these presentations provide an overview of various interconnected topics, namely: 

 ☁️ Contrail Avoidance Strategies

 📊 MRV (Monitoring, Reporting & Verification)

 ⚖️ Evolving Regulatory Landscapes

 🌱 Sustainability in Flight Operations

 🧪 Ongoing Research & Development

 💸 Cost-Based Avoidance Approaches

 🛫 Optimizing in 5 Dimensions 

 🪙 Cost indexing considerations

 🌏 Climate impact pricing - C02 

🙏 A big thank you to everyone who joined us — your insights, questions, and collaboration made the UGM truly valuable. It was especially lovely to reconnect with some of our long-time users and to meet potential new partners. We appreciate your continued interest and look forward to what we can achieve together!

📩 Interested in collaborating, testing, or just want to learn more? Don’t hesitate to reach out — we’re always keen to connect across disciplines and borders.

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