International Airport Review
20 Mar 2026
At International Airport Summit operators shared practical lessons on visibility, predictability and trust from one of Europe’s most advanced airside digitalisation programmes.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a future ambition for airport ground operations. At Frankfurt Airport, it is already shaping how aircraft turnarounds are monitored, predicted and optimised in real time.
During the International Airport Summit Berlin panel, AI-driven ground operations, leaders from Fraport, zeroG Lufthansa Group and FRAAlliance shared a refreshingly practical view of what it takes to deploy AI at scale in one of Europe’s busiest and most complex operational environments. The discussion moved beyond theory, focusing instead on data transparency, human trust, collaboration and what really makes AI usable on the apron...
