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The Data Is There. It Just Cannot Be Found. And Agentic AI Will Not Wait.
Every airport I know has accumulated decades of operational intelligence. Regulations documented after audits. Business rules captured after incidents. Turnaround procedures refined after delays. Disruption playbooks are built from hard experience. The knowledge exists. It is just scattered across shared drives, email threads, WhatsApp groups, aging servers, and the laptops of people who may or may not still work there.
Every airport I know has accumulated decades of operational intelligence… The knowledge exists. It is just scattered across shared drives, email threads, WhatsApp groups, aging servers, and the laptops of people who may or may not still work there.
For years, that has been manageable. Operationally inconvenient, yes. But manageable.
Agentic AI changes the calculus entirely.