Finally something good from QF IT

[codash1099]

Looks like the real IT people have been hard at work.

https://www.theage.com.au/business/...e-qantas-millions-a-year-20181126-p50icy.html

 

[RooFlyer]

Sorry .. its Qantas cost management, so can only invoke the cynic in me.

The new system uses cloud computing to crunch data on thousands of possible flight paths, using millions of data points – including the latest wind patterns, and varying altitudes and flight speeds – to build a "cost map" that presents the most efficient route.

With a very light plane (ie light loading) and strong headwinds the "cost map" may come up with an optimal cost solution of: "Don't fly".

 

[GoldCanyon340]

Not sure if this is IT or another department. Regardless Qantas has always had skilled Ops Analysts and this sounds like their work.

 

[juddles]

Sorry .. its Qantas cost management, so can only invoke the cynic in me.



With a very light plane (ie light loading) and strong headwinds the "cost map" may come up with an optimal cost solution of: "Don't fly".

Rooflyer, this is uncanny!! I read the first post and suddenly thought "Rooflyer will have an opinion here" - and lo and behold, I cruise down a few more lines and there you are!!

 

[juddles]

Just read the link - so they have managed to improve by tweaking a system they had used for thirty years? This is exactly what I want for the QF/customer interface - infrequent changes that mean real benefit. I bet they don't subject their Cost Management to the b-llshit of randomly and imperfectly just rearranging their software interface every few months just to be "new".

 

[RooFlyer]

Rooflyer, this is uncanny!! I read the first post and suddenly thought "Rooflyer will have an opinion here" - and lo and behold, I cruise down a few more lines and there you are!!

Mr Reliable, that's what they call me ...

But on the software, I wonder what @jb747 might opine on it? I dare say the Operations flight plan is only as good as when the pilot finds that the conditions aren't what the model predicted, then they will do what they had traditionally done.

 

[amaroo]

Read the article the other day and my first thought - Well done, it pays when your CEO graduated with honours in Physics and Mathematics

 

[Scarlett]

Reads thread title...
Checks date not 1 Apr...

 

[GoldCanyon340]

This is a positive step from QF.