Source: TAP TAP's On Board Film Festival featured an international jury and the passengers' vote. TAP Air Portugal announced on World Cinema Day earlier this week, the winners of the Altitude Film Fest, the airline's 1st On Board Film Festival, at an awards ceremony that took place in cinema room 11 of the UCI Cinema El Corte Inglés, in Lisbon. Actor and radio presenter Rui Maria Pêgo hosted the ceremony. This inaugural edition of the Altitude Film Fest invited passengers on TAP long-haul flights to take part in choosing the winners throughout the month of October. The response was extraordinary, with a total of 1,542 votes: 837 in the fiction category and 705 in the documentary category. The winning films [...]

Source: Frontier Airlines Frontier Named "North American Environmental Sustainability Airline of the Year" by the Centre for Aviation Ultra-low fare carrier Frontier Airlines (NASDAQ: ULCC), America's Greenest Airline, was deemed the "North American Environmental Sustainability Airline of the Year" by the Centre for Aviation (CAPA) in its "2024 Environmental Sustainability Awards for Excellence." The awards, which recognize airline groups globally for being leaders in sustainability across the air travel sector, were presented at a gala in Hong Kong this week. Winners were selected by CAPA using emissions and efficiency data that was independently sourced and analyzed. To celebrate this recognition, America's Greenest Airline is offering up to 100% off base fares on many flights across its large and growing network. [...]

Source: Air Canada Air Canada employs over 75 employees across the fields of data science and operations research, machine learning and data engineering. You might think it's strange that an airline employs so many experts in a domain as relatively new as artificial intelligence. But there's a very good reason for all the effort. Since November 2018, Air Canada has actively been building AI solutions in-house, primarily driven by the lack of off-the-shelf solutions on the market that meet the airline's requirements. Some of the AI solutions being developed at Air Canada include tools to optimize our flying schedule and one to improve maintenance planning. "Air Canada's maintenance scheduling assistant was created out of a need to plan maintenance schedules [...]