Skylinx develops flight planning software in the Imperial City: The confidence of the American airline United Airlines gives the company, founded only in late 2020, a huge boost – and hope for passengers worldwide that the chaos in aviation will ebb, at least in the near future.
Skylinx founders Christian Grill, Florian Islitzer, Ludwig Reiter and Judith Blaschegg do a good job of bridging the gap between Kaiser flair and global business: “Imperial and royally privileged aeronaut” reads a sign in the stairwell, while large-format photos of aircraft off and Landen adorn the walls of the offices, as do clocks that tell the time in New York, Istanbul and Sydney.
The company is headquartered in Bad Ischl near the Lehar Movie Theater, where it is developing flight planning software that US carrier United Airlines plans to use from 2024.
“We have a very tight schedule,” said Grill, who was a commercial pilot until 2019 before deciding to move with his family from Nuremberg to the Salzkammergut. For years, the 41-year-old has been working on scheduling software in his spare time to convince airlines from the South Pacific, Libya, Russia and Australia. At the end of 2020, Grill took the leap to self-employment.
“Rising fuel prices increase the need for optimization”
United Airlines’ confidence is a huge boost. In the future, Bad Ischl software will have to plan and optimize routes for 40,000 flights within the US per month and for another 4,000 international flights per day. Skylinx relies on artificial intelligence to evaluate data such as weather, passengers, cargo and traffic conditions. “Rising fuel prices increase the need for optimization,” Grill says.
Source: Krone
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