Outdated technologies plague aviation today, as well as cumbersome FAA rules and complexities, infrastructure questionability and airport issues. Dirty, unhygienic planes with uncomfortable seats don’t help much, either.
Further, over the past few decades, innovations in the industry have been mediocre, and customer service has been lousy. And perhaps more urgent than any other problem on aviation’s long laundry list are the well-known environmental issues that stem from air travel.
Is there hope for the future of the aviation industry? Thanks to solutions and innovations made possible by big data and business intelligence (BI), the answer is yes. Here are six BI-driven innovations that are helping to turn the industry around, and a peek at some of the companies that are making the innovations happen.
1. Flight-Schedule Management for Reducing Cancellations
You may have seen reports predicting that pilots will soon be replaced by robots. The current reality, however, is the opposite, as we’re seeing a looming of human pilot shortages. Magnifying this problem is the fact that 42% of current US pilots will retire over the next decade. And to add even more salt to the wound, recent FAA regulations have limited pilot flight time to reduce fatigue.
Pilot shortages and FAA regulations are causing the perfect storm of massive flight cancellations and the PR troubles and even lawsuits that come with them. Along with public disapproval, these cancellations are also costing the industry millions of
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