AI in Aviation Operations: Where It Helps, Where It Hides Risk, and Why Human-in-the-Loop Isn’t Optional

The pitch for AI in aviation operations is easy to make. Contract terms analyzed in seconds. Pricing anomalies flagged automatically. Demand predicted before the season starts. Email threads summarized so coordinators spend less time reading and more time deciding. Some of this is real. Some of it is premature. And some of it is actively […]

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12/12/2025

The Hidden Cost of Unstructured Handling Coordination

There's a phrase that comes up often in flight handling operations: "Let me check the email." It's said without irony. Somewhere in a thread — maybe three weeks old, maybe from last Tuesday — is the agreed set of services for a particular client at a particular airport. Someone added a note...

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Fuel Pricing Is a Moving Target. Most Operations Treat It Like...

Aviation fuel is priced by location, by supplier, by client agreement, by volume tier, by date. It changes frequently. The margin on a given transaction can hinge on whether a quote reflected the right supplier rate for the right location on the right day — or a rate from two weeks ago that...

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SAF Credits Are Only as Valuable as the Trail Behind Them

Sustainable Aviation Fuel is increasingly central to how aviation operators think about decarbonization — and increasingly, it's a commercial opportunity, not just a compliance cost. Virtual SAF credit sales let operators monetize sustainability efforts, offer clients verifiable green options,...

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My Experience with Amazon Cognito

What is Amazon Cognito? Amazon Cognito is an AWS service that handles user authentication. It provides a log in/sign up form, handles email verification and manages user credentials for us. And it's free if you have up to 50k users per month (at the time of writing this blog post). How it...

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AWS Security Baseline

AWS Security Baseline provides a checklist of security practices and steps that should be part of every AWS application - no excuses. This document is meant to be updated and improved over time. Principles SANE DEFAULTS - there are just things that no one should do when setting up any...

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29/09/2021

Cassandra to Kafka data pipeline (Part 2)

If you haven’t read the previous part of this blog, you can find it here. There, I have laid the necessary steps for injecting the Kafka cluster into system ‘before’ the Cassandra cluster. What I have also tackled is the first step Have a mechanism to push each Cassandra change to...

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AI in Aviation Operations: Where It Helps, Where It Hides Risk, and Why Human-in-the-Loop Isn’t Optional

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