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INFORM specializes in AI and optimization software to improve operational decision-making and resource efficiency. GroundStar is INFORM's complete software solution for airports, airlines, and ground handlers, which now utilizes high quality real-time predictive flight data from FlightAware Foresight℠.
Loren Mathis, Chief strategy officer of INFORM Aviation, and JJ De Paep, FlightAware Foresight Product Manager, sat down to talk about how we're working together to improve operations for customers.
What's the benefit of using FlightAware Data?
Loren: Much improved operations and efficiencies. When you take really powerful predictive AI-rich flight data, the data on its own is fantastic, but when you pair it with a tool like GroundStar, it enables airlines, airports and ground handlers to really action that data. For example, knowing you have five more minutes on an Minimum Objective Ground Time (MOGT) turn greatly improves the ability to get that turn accomplished. We're putting powerful data into the hands of people who can do something with it, and that has endless possibilities.
JJ: The value of FlightAware Foresight comes from this incredible amount of data that FlightAware has gathered over many years, and we're able to use that to train machine learning models. In this case, we just recently released the neural network, which is the biggest evolution in our Predict product catalog in the last several years, and it offers our customers the most accurate and dependable predictions available in the world of aviation.
Why FlightAware?
Loren: FlightAware shares our customer passion and they are very passionate about the customer experience. FlightAware and INFORM partner very well together in terms of our focus on AI and Neural Networks. Machine learning and AI is the future for aviation and FlightAware and INFORM are both great partners in that space.
JJ: One of the greatest challenges around machine learning products is how to take it from the realm of ideas into something that's really practical and makes a difference to our customers. What makes FlightAware, and especially this partnership with INFORM so unique is exactly that opportunity. We have leading predictions and this neural network, and by partnering with INFORM, we're able to distill that down and put it into a platform that gets it in the hands of customers in a really easy to use and practical way so we can start to make a difference for those operations and for their customers as well.
What is on the Horizon for the INFORM & FlightAware Partnership?
Loren: We've only scratched the surface on things that we can do in the future with FlightAware and INFORM. We've had several brainstorming sessions and identified use cases that we hadn't even thought of, where, you know, this powerful, rich, real-time data and powerful optimization tools really enable airports, airlines and ground handlers to action the operation. So we think there's a ton of different use cases out there we haven't even talked about yet.
JJ: Partnering with, you know, someone like INFORM allows us to take this data and make it very actionable, very practical to put it in the hands of the people who need it the most so that they can use that to make better decisions and ultimately offer better service to their customers so that gets us really excited.
There's also just so many opportunities to develop new technologies and to expand within their GroundStar product. We're already looking at ways to take our data and optimize gate allocations using our predictive taxi times and things like that. So there's just tons of opportunity to really, you know, make this data very, very practical and usable.
To learn more, read the full press release here.
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