News Summary

• Alaska Airlines' dispatchers are getting some help from a software tool called Flyways AI.
• Alaska says it's saving tens of thousands of hours in the air and roughly a million gallons of fuel per year because of Flyways.
• Federal regulators are betting that predictive analytics can make the entire u.s. airspace work better.
• The FAA is so convinced that it recently announced an $875 million contract with Air Space Intelligence to modernize the nation's airspace."I think we've got a real opportunity to do something transformational with AI," said Bryan Bedford, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration.