Alaska Airlines has partnered with startup Up.Labs to form a new company to provide artificial intelligence-driven flight schedule optimization solutions. The company, called Odysee, received $5 million in seed funding led by Up.Labs parent company Up.Partners.
Alaska and Up.Labs announced last year that they planned to build a startup Designed to “solve core strategic challenges for the future of Alaska Airlines and the aviation industry,” Odysee is now the first result. Odysee can help airlines develop flight schedules and “quickly quantify the impact of schedule changes on revenue, profitability and reliability,” Alaska said in a statement. “The platform can run hundreds of simulations in seconds to provide accurate flight altitude insights to stress test future schedules.”
Odysee's CEO is Steve Casley, who, according to his LinkedIn bio, served as CEO of travel data provider OAG and most recently as head of travel and hospitality data at Capgemini.
Alaska said that “over the next three years” it plans to launch more startups through the Up.Labs partnership “focused on solving key challenges in aviation and mobility.”
