Jeppesen ForeFlight today unveiled its aviation-centric AI engine, Airflow, as the foundation of its strategy to bring responsible artificial intelligence to all sectors of aviation. The engine, developed over several years, is backed by decades of deep domain experience, industry-leading data, and capabilities spanning crew and fleet planning, day-of-flight operations, and flight deck solutions.
Airflow: The Aviation Intelligence Engine
Jeppesen ForeFlight Airflow is a foundational agentic AI engine that combines commercially available data, segregated proprietary customer data, and extensive domain knowledge including safety, certification expertise, and contextual reasoning across every aviation market. Built on an open architecture and designed to be model agnostic, Airflow gives customers full flexibility in how they adopt AI, whether by integrating their own agents, leveraging third-party solutions, or deploying Jeppesen ForeFlight’s native agents. Customers can move at their own pace, at lower cost, and with as much or as little human control over key decisions as their operations require. This flexibility, paired with the company’s reach across crew, fleet, operations, and flight deck performance, distinguishes Jeppesen ForeFlight from generic AI platforms and single-point solutions.
First Product in General Aviation
The company is already previewing its first product in the General Aviation market: the ForeFlight AI Connector, an MCP server connecting ForeFlight Mobile to a customer’s existing OpenAI ChatGPT environment. Users can query their personal AI for flight plans and refueling options, or build AI-connected tools and workflows using their data in ForeFlight Mobile. The company intends to expand this feature to other popular AI applications such as Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude so users can choose their preferred experience layer.
Later this year, Jeppesen ForeFlight Airflow will debut its first offerings to the Commercial and Business aviation segments, with military-focused capabilities to follow.
CEO Emphasizes Need for Aviation Intelligence
“General AI is confident, but often wrong. In our industry, these mistakes cascade into costly, dangerous, or catastrophic outcomes. Artificial intelligence is not enough for this industry, we need aviation intelligence: the assurance that the right data, right context, and right reasoning are applied every time, and always cross-checked and filtered through industry safety and governance protocols,” said Brad Surak, CEO of Jeppesen ForeFlight. “We have helped the industry evolve from paper to digital to mobile, and we are bringing to market a highly differentiated AI offering in Jeppesen ForeFlight Airflow that customers can deploy on their own terms and timelines, at significantly lower IT costs than previous industry transitions.”
Five Key Differentiators
Unlike other aviation industry approaches, Jeppesen ForeFlight Airflow differentiates and delivers in five critically important areas: deep domain expertise, model agnosticism, flexible deployment, safety-first governance, and integration across crew, fleet, and flight deck operations.
