Alaska Airlines has partnered with startup builder Up.Labs to launch a new company that offers an AI-powered flight schedule optimization solution. The company, called Odysee, launches with $5 million in seed funding led by Up.Labs parent Up.Partners.
Alaska and Up.Labs last year announced that they planned to build startups designed to “solve core strategic challenges for Alaska Airlines and the future of aviation,” with Odysee now the first result. Odysee can help carriers build flight schedules and “rapidly quantify the impacts of schedule changes on revenue, profitability and reliability,” Alaska said in a statement. “The platform can run hundreds of simulations within seconds to provide accurate flight-level insights to stress-test a future schedule.”
Odysee’s CEO is Steve Casley, who according to his LinkedIn bio once served as CEO of travel data provider OAG and more recently served as a travel and hospitality data executive with Capgemini.
Alaska said “over the next three years” it planned to launch through the Up.Labs partnership additional startups “focused on solving key challenges in aviation and mobility.”
