Air India is exploring collaboration with Apple on various issues, including improvement in flight-planning software used by pilots, the airline’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) & Managing Director (MD) Campbell Wilson said on Friday.
The airline is becoming one of Apple’s largest iPad customers in India, Wilson said in a message to employees that has been reviewed by Business Standard.
Flight planning software is a tool that allows pilots to input information such as departure and destination airports, preferred routes, weather conditions, and aircraft performance data to generate a flight plan that meets their needs. Apple has not built any flight planning software to date and it is unclear what the aforementioned proposed collaboration with Air India will entail.
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