(TAN): Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) has been working under a broader strategic partnership to use Google Cloud technology to develop a platform that facilitates the planning and steering of the airline’s daily flight operations, the carrier said in a statement.
The new platform will help the teams working in SWISS’s Operations Control at Zurich Airport to consistently make the best decisions on the airline’s complex and highly dynamic flight operations all over the globe. The platform collates data from the various units and processes within the company such as passenger itineraries, aircraft assignments, crew rostering and aircraft maintenance, which the system can then use to propose the optimum scenarios for keeping its flight operations as stable and efficient as possible.
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“As The Airline of Switzerland, we want to offer our customers punctual and reliable flight operations,” said SWISS CEO Dieter Vranckx. “And our partnership with Google Cloud plays a decisive part in enabling us to maintain stable flight schedules. Google Cloud helps us further reduce our carbon dioxide emissions, by allowing us to deploy our aircraft more efficiently.”
Hans Thalbauer, managing director, supply chain & logistics solutions at Google Cloud, said: “Through this partnership, we have a significant opportunity to innovate the future of airline operations and to contribute to making them more sustainable. We’re bringing the best of SWISS, Lufthansa Group and Google Cloud together to solve some of the airlines’ biggest challenges and positively impact the travel experience of millions of passengers that fly with SWISS annually.”
