Press release
Optifly Launches Opty, Agentic AI for More Profitable Airline Schedule Optimisation
Agentic AI working through Optifly’s proprietary optimisation, enabling faster exploration of complex network scenarios.
IRELAND — 20 October 2026 — Optifly, a leading provider of airline schedule optimisation, has today introduced Opty, the agentic AI layer of its expanded airline planning platform, designed to help airlines build more profitable schedules.
Opty connects natural-language interaction and AI agents with Optifly’s proprietary optimisation technology, working across its scheduling, slot management, fleet and network optimisation products. Together, they enable airlines to create, manage, and continuously improve schedules, while helping their planning teams explore more possibilities, evaluate trade-offs, and identify opportunities to improve network performance.
Airlines already use Opty in production to analyse and explain their schedules, make changes and work with Optifly’s optimiser to deliver results. From January 2027, the next generation goes further: schedulers will be able to describe planning challenges in their own words, while AI agents orchestrate Optifly’s optimisation engines to automatically generate and compare dozens of alternative schedules in a fraction of the time required manually. This allows airlines to reassess capacity plans and identify the right routes, frequencies, timings, and aircraft allocation to protect network contribution and profitability.
Using Opty, a scheduler could ask:
“We need to reduce winter capacity by 10%. Explore different scenarios and identify which options protect the most network contribution while maintaining our competitive position on key routes.”
Drawing on an airline’s operating ruleset, competitor and market data, demand and bookings, 80/20 slot utilisation, and the airline’s own commercial data, Opty will evaluate the alternatives and present them for scheduler review and approval.
On an already optimised summer schedule, Opty found ten additional weekly flights from the same fleet, representing up to €6 million in additional revenue opportunity. Opty’s AI agents identified where the schedule could still be improved, then used Optifly’s optimisation engine to test and build the changes, running repeated passes to uncover further opportunities.
In another scenario, Opty increased overall schedule contribution by shifting capacity from weaker early-morning and late-night departures into stronger commercial windows, while improving departure spread on multi-frequency routes.
Opty is built on AWS and uses Amazon Bedrock. The AI never decides what is feasible: every change is checked by Optifly’s optimisation and validation engines against the airline’s own rules, and nothing goes live without the scheduler’s approval.
Daniel Mulcahy, CCO and Co-founder of Optifly, says: “Airlines are under enormous pressure to make better commercial decisions, faster. It’s about aligning capacity with demand and making the most profitable use of every aircraft and every flight. Optifly has evolved from a specialist optimiser into a complete airline planning platform. With Opty, we’re combining the intelligence of AI with our proven optimisation technology to automatically explore dozens of scenarios and uncover commercial opportunities that would be virtually impossible to identify manually.”
The launch builds on Optifly’s proven track record in airline optimisation. Since 2021, its technology has delivered up to 5% higher aircraft utilisation and 0.3–1.0% lower fuel burn through more efficient aircraft allocation. Its optimisation technology can work alongside an airline’s existing scheduling systems or as part of Optifly’s complete planning platform. Alongside its established optimiser customers, four airlines have adopted Optifly’s scheduling and slots products in 2026, with a fifth reaching an agreement in principle.
Jakub Jonik, Co-founder and Head of Operations Research at Optifly, says: “AI agents can interpret a scheduler’s intent and coordinate many runs, but mathematical optimisation is what solves the hard operational problem. Combining the two gives airlines a practical way to evaluate complex alternatives with the technology doing the heavy lifting while the scheduler stays in control.”
Opty is already delivering results in production and is available to demo for interested airlines. Optifly will be at Routes World in Frankfurt (21–23 October), demonstrating Opty to airlines throughout the event. Its next generation of agentic capabilities will begin rolling out to new and existing airline customers in January 2027.