Straight to the gate this holiday season
Source: American Airlines Smart Gating technology keeps American moving during its busiest-ever Thanksgiving season As American Airlines welcomes a record-breaking 7.8 million customers over the Thanksgiving holiday, it's harnessing the power of machine learning to shorten taxi times, reduce ramp congestion and help aircraft get to gates faster. The technology minimizes situations where arriving aircraft must wait for an available gate, which means American’s customers spend less time waiting on the tarmac and more time getting to their final destinations. Developed by American’s Information Technology and Operations teams, Smart Gating technology uses real-time flight information and other data points to automatically assign arriving aircraft to the nearest available gate with the shortest taxi time. American first started testing the tool [...]