Artificial Intelligence in Commercial Aviation (ePub)

Ricardo V. Pilon has 29 years of practical airline/aviation management and management consulting experience from line management to corporate senior management. He has worked in strategic planning, organization and governance, revenue management and pricing, business improvement, alliances, marketing, distribution, network, and product planning in both passenger services and air cargo management. He has completed over 200 projects in 98 countries with over 100 airlines and air cargo operators, industry organizations IATA and ICAO, civil aviation authorities, and aircraft manufacturers. In recent years, Ricardo has been heavily involved in creative innovation and transformation and has served as a senior executive in mid-size and large companies as an interim executive and Chief Strategy and Commercial Officer. Ricardo holds a PhD in Strategic Airline Management, an MBA in International Aviation from Concordia University in Montreal, a Master of Science in Air Transport Management from Cranfield University in the United Kingdom, a Master of Science in Applied Psychology from NTI, as well as a Bachelor of Science in International Management from the International Business School in the Netherlands. Ricardo is also the author of Cruising to Profits, published in 2015, and a number of airline management publications, such as Disruptor Airline. Since 2022, Ricardo is specializing further in the intersection of (airline) organization design, AI, and psychology and pursuing his second doctorate of applied organizational psychology in this field.