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How Alaska Airlines used AI to save over 1.2 million gallons of jet fuel
- Alaska Airlines partnered with Air Space Intelligence to use an AI tool that suggests flight routes.
- The tool, Flyways AI Platform, factors in data such as historical flight traffic and predicted weather.
- Flyways helps in reducing frequent airline delays, involving last-minute diversions and high fuel consumption.
- Flyways connects to multiple sources of information to acquire data on variables such as restricted military airspace and wind speed.
- The Flyways AI Platform is used as an assistant to the airline's dispatchers, who see its options presented when creating a flight plan.
- Flyways trains its AI algorithm on historical flight data and ingests data on less obvious variables.
- Alaska Airlines' dispatchers accept 23% of Flyways' recommendations, helping reduce the airline's fuel consumption by more than 1.2 million gallons in 2023.
- Reduced fuel consumption is necessary if Alaska is to reach its goal of becoming the most-fuel-efficient airline by 2025.
- ASI has grown its head count from a handful of engineers to 110 employees across offices in Boston, Denver, Poland, and Washington, DC.
- In addition to its partnership with Alaska, the company has contracts with the US Air Force and received $34 million in Series B funding in December from Andreessen Horowitz.
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