Air Canada building AI tools in-house, creates schedule optimizer

Air Canada says it has been building artificial intelligence solutions in-house since 2018, employing more than 75 employees across the fields of data science and operations research, machine learning and data engineering.

The self-starting approach is primarily driven by the lack of off-the-shelf solutions on the market that meet the airline’s requirements, Air Canada shared in a news release this week.

Some of the AI solutions being developed at Air Canada include tools to optimize its flying schedule and one to improve maintenance planning.

“Air Canada’s maintenance scheduling assistant was created out of a need to plan maintenance schedules far in advance with ever changing variables to consider. The current industry…