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Turkish Airlines innovates with Red Hat OpenShift AI

Turkish Airlines

Turkish Airlines' technology company, Turkish Technology, deployed Red Hat OpenShift AI on premise, on bare metal, with support from a team of 5 Red Hat consultants, to build a scalable, cloud-ready AI infrastructure. The platform provides container orchestration for GPU compute resources and integrates with the Dremio distributed query engine as a data ingestion layer. Operations teams can now create data science workspaces in minutes rather than hours, and deployment times for AI models have halved thanks to standardized YAML-based deployment. AI initiatives span more than 60 live models, including real-time dynamic pricing, payment fraud detection, ground-time predictions, tail assignments, on-time performance predictions, and generative AI use cases for employee experience and productivity. More than 200 Turkish Airlines employees now work on AI-based development as citizen data scientists. The airline's Head of Data and AI, Emre Yavuz, said AI projects are targeted to create over USD 100 million in financial impact by boosting revenue, decreasing operational costs, and increasing efficiency.