General aviation tool leads wider 2026 rollout
Jeppesen ForeFlight unveiled Jeppesen ForeFlight Airflow in Austin, Texas, on 1 July 2026. The company launched the aviation intelligence engine as the base of its 2026 AI strategy across multiple aviation segments.
Over several years, Jeppesen ForeFlight developed Airflow with decades of domain experience, industry data and tools used in crew planning, fleet planning, day-of-flight operations and flight deck solutions.
Airflow combines commercially available data, segregated proprietary customer data and aviation knowledge tied to safety, certification expertise and contextual reasoning.
The platform uses open architecture and stays model agnostic. Customers can add their own agents, use third-party tools or deploy native Jeppesen ForeFlight agents with as much human control as their operations require.
Jeppesen ForeFlight said that setup lets customers adopt AI at their own pace and at lower cost. The company also tied that flexibility to its coverage of crew, fleet, operations and flight deck performance.
The first product now in preview is the ForeFlight AI Connector for general aviation. It works as an MCP server linking ForeFlight Mobile to a customer’s existing OpenAI ChatGPT environment.
With the connector, users can ask a personal AI for flight plans and refuelling options. They can also build AI-connected tools and workflows with data stored in ForeFlight Mobile.
Later in 2026, Jeppesen ForeFlight intends to expand the connector to Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude. That would let users keep the AI experience layer they already prefer.
ForeFlight AI Connector preview
Brad Surak, CEO of Jeppesen ForeFlight, said: “General AI is confident, but often wrong. In our industry, these mistakes cascade into costly, dangerous, or catastrophic outcomes.”
Surak linked Airflow to stricter aviation needs around data quality, context and reasoning. He also tied the system to safety and governance checks before key operational decisions.
In a second statement, Surak said: “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.”
Commercial and business aviation will get the first Airflow offerings later in 2026. Military-focused capabilities will follow after those launches, according to the 1 July 2026 announcement.
Jeppesen ForeFlight is also inviting customers interested in early co-development access to contact an account executive or visit ai.jeppesenforeflight.com.
