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Delta Orders Worlds Biggest LED Lights Plane Retrofit

Delta Orders Worlds Biggest LED Lights Plane Retrofit

Delta Orders Worlds Biggest LED Lights Plane Retrofit

With 1224 planes in its massive fleet Delta Airlines is one of the world’s largest airlines, its operational costs  are of utmost importance and quite often they will invest in new products in order that to reduce those costs.

One of often forgotten parts of the airline business is lighting. While numerous carriers speak of starry LED skies in Boeing 777 and Airbus A380 planes, realities are that those shiny examples of world’s most advanced aircraft make for a tiny minority in any fleet and the majority of planes flying are workhorses such as Airbus A320 or Boeing 737 series.

In order to improve operating and maintenance costs of its whole fleet, Delta Air Lines pulled something not a whole lot of people expected, an LED light retrofit order for the whole fleet, first 772 for their ‘mainline’ planes, and 452 for their additional planes i.e those flying with Delta Connection.

French company Madelec Aero surprised the industry with its T800 LED lighting series of products intended for the airline industry. T800 LED is plug-in compatible with existing CCFL products, with one major difference- it is expected to last for five years, compared to standard six-month operating cycle for a fluorescent tube. Their plug-in product now carries an 8 million contract with Delta Air Lines. This contract has already started, and it will take three years to complete.

Even though neither the carrier nor the company released more details, T800 should reduce power consumption in double-digit percentage, leading to a miniscule, but still bottom-line affecting reduction in fuel burn and emissions.