Red Hat OpenShift AI is helping enterprises turn AI ambition into operational reality, bridging the gap between cutting-edge data science and large-scale deployment. At Turkish Airlines, that vision is already delivering results — with Red Hat’s platform serving as the foundation for smarter, more scalable aviation solutions.

Through its subsidiary Turkish Technology, the airline is using Red Hat OpenShift AI to reimagine how it delivers customer service, manages infrastructure and streamlines operations. The approach combines technical flexibility with AI-powered innovation to support both IT and business teams in building applications that run securely at scale, according to Serdar Gürbüz (pictured), general manager of Turkish Technology.

Turkish Technology’s Serdar Gürbüz talks with theCUBE about how Red Hat OpenShift AI acts as a stepping stone in the aviation industry.

“We have started a data-driven transformation program,” Gürbüz said. “It goes along with the digital transformation program of the company. The technical infrastructure should be ready for them to do things. In that space we choose OpenShift and OpenShift AI — it’s scalable, it’s flexible. The developers both within IT and the business users can work on their workloads independently and they can build, they can upload their data and they can build their own applications with the help of IT teams.”

Gürbüz spoke with theCUBE’s Rebecca Knight and Rob Strechay at Red Hat Summit, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed how Red Hat OpenShift AI helps Turkish Airlines meet its aviation objectives. (* Disclosure below.)

How Red Hat OpenShift AI is helping the aviation industry

Turkish Technology is utilizing Red Hat OpenShift AI to efficiently manage its GPU infrastructure and foster AI-driven innovation across its operations. This strategic adoption is expected to boost operational efficiency, accelerate the deployment of AI models, and ultimately enhance satisfaction in the aviation industry, Gürbüz pointed out.  

“We have a GPU farm, and OpenShift AI is helping us to manage that GPU farm,” he said. “We are building our own GPTs using open-source GPTs, like Llama or DeepSeek, and then many others. We are not just the IT power of Turkish Airlines Group, so we are building products for the aviation industry. That’s why we want our products to be authentic and to work on our on-prem systems, in our private and secure systems.”

By leveraging optimization models and advanced analytics, Turkish Technology has improved flight planning and fuel loading processes. This strategy recently resulted in $10 million in savings, according to Gürbüz.

“We are assigning aircrafts to the routes, but we don’t use the data,” he said. “We decided to put an optimization model, which learned from our machine learning algorithm, for the aircrafts that we own. We combined the machine learning model with the optimization model and it generated an output, which the model says, ‘This aircraft should apply to this route.’ Last year, for example, more than $10 million was saved from the fuel Turkish Airlines gained.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of Red Hat Summit:

(* Disclosure: Red Hat Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Red Hat nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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