“Change the game” from artificial intelligence has helped reduce delays

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“The technique of artificial intelligence” has helped reduce the number of cancellation and delay in the airline, which is fighting to restore its reputation after years of operational problems.

In the first quarter, she left 86 percent of Heathrow’s Bachelor’s trips on time, according to data from the airline, which she said was the best performance.

A separate financial data analysis of data from the UK flying regulator showed that a bachelor’s degree from the airport was less likely to disturb the 12 months of the 12 months ended in February, although the number of delay for more than an hour is still higher than prenatal levels.

BA has been struggling with an increasing number of broken flights since the end of the epidemic, especially from the London Center at Heathrow Airport.

But Sean Doyle, CEO of British Airways, said that the performance of the airline had improved after it invested 100 million pounds in “operational flexibility”, including in new artificial intelligence technologies and 600 additional employees in Heathrow.

“While the turmoil in our trips is often out of our control, our focus was on improving factors that could directly affect,” he said.

Investments included the promotion of unreliable unreliable information technology systems, which suffered from a series of prominent failures in 2017, 2019 and 2022.

BA said that the new AI program includes a tool that calculates how to respond to disruption so that it affects the lowest number of possible customers, such as delaying or canceling the trip and returning the notebook to the next plane.

Other tools include a program that proactively redirects aircraft to avoid bad weather areas, and another connects travel plans on board to send aircraft to the most suitable position at Heathrow Airport.

The carrier has long suffered loud technology, operational complexity, and exposure to Heathrow Airport in London, which works close to full power.

By last summer, airline has doubled and Heathrow has doubled more than weak since the roaming epidemic.

“They had to manage it,” said John Strickland, aviation consultant.

However, Strickland said that the peak summer season that waves on the horizon will be a greater challenge for BA than the first quarter, and it is usually the calm of airlines.

The airline has partially blaming the external factors of its problems, including air traffic control delayed, and other Rolls-Royce delays from Rolls-Royce for its long plane in Boeing 787.

The British company Iag revealed last year an investment of 7 billion pounds in the airline, which aims to improve its operational reliability and make the brand more elegant.

Luis Galligo, CEO of IAG, told FT in August that BA “could do it … much better,” adding that many analysts have considered that BA had been seriously performing.