Aviation software provider Optifly has launched Opty, an agentic artificial intelligence layer integrated across its scheduling, slot management, fleet, and network optimisation platform.
The new layer aims to reduce carrier fuel burn by up to 1.0% and increase aircraft utilisation by up to 5% through algorithmic capacity reallocation.
The Dublin-based company said that the software uses Amazon Web Services infrastructure and Amazon Bedrock to model schedule adjustments against carrier operating rules, commercial bookings, competitor actions and airport 80/20 slot-utilisation thresholds.
In production testing on an established summer airline schedule, the tool identified 10 additional weekly sectors from an existing fleet assignment without requiring supplementary aircraft capital expenditure, generating an estimated revenue upside of up to €6 million.
A secondary operational trial demonstrated margin improvements by moving capacity away from marginal early-morning and late-night departure windows into higher-yield commercial blocks,while rebalancing frequencies on competitive city pairs.
Operating economics for regional carriers and low-cost operators remain tightly bound to fuel consumption and asset sweating.
According to Optifly, historical deployments of its core engine since 2021 have delivered between 0.3% and 1.0% reductions in fleet fuel burn via optimised airframe allocations, alongside asset productivity gains reaching 5%.
The platform retains strict automated operational parameters, routing all AI-generated scenarios through Optifly validation engines to verify maintenance constraints, crew boundaries, and slot compliance before presenting options for human scheduler sign-off.
Four airlines integrated Optifly scheduling and slots software during 2026, with a fifth carrier executing an agreement in principle.
"Airlines are under enormous pressure to make better commercial decisions, faster. It's about aligning capacity with demand and making the most profitable use of every aircraft and every flight. Optifly has evolved from a specialist optimiser into a complete airline planning platform. With Opty, we're combining the intelligence of AI with our proven optimisation technology to automatically explore dozens of scenarios and uncover commercial opportunities that would be virtually impossible to identify manually," said Daniel Mulcahy, chief commercial officer and co-founder of Optifly.
"AI agents can interpret a scheduler’s intent and coordinate many runs, but mathematical optimisation is what solves the hard operational problem. Combining the two gives airlines a practical way to evaluate complex alternatives with the technology doing the heavy lifting while the scheduler stays in control," said Jakub Jonik, co-founder and head of operations research at Optifly.
Optifly is demonstrating the system at the Routes World conference in Frankfurt between October 21 and October 23,ahead of an expanded commercial release of automated multi-scenario generation scheduled for January 2027.
