Getting Planes To Their Destinations Faster, Through The Power Of Data

With its Flight Quest contest, GE is crowdsourcing solutions for better flight planning, to save time and emissions.

It seems like it should be relatively simple math to plan the most efficient route for an airplane. But for airlines trying to get thousands of airplanes to destinations around the world, on time and safely, it gets to be an extremely complex problem, especially when a single last-minute change to a flight can create a ripple effect in the routing of dozens of other flights.

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