Airside Labs - AI Systems for Travel & Aviation
    ICO - Information Commissioner's Office

    Cert: ZC023940

    Orchestrating the Future of Aviation & Travel

    We build the agentic infrastructure connecting legacy aviation data to mission-critical operations. Led by industry veterans currently architecting the next generation of flight and regulatory frameworks.

    Trusted by teams across travel & aviation

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    Contributing to industry standards

    CANSO — Civil Air Navigation Services OrganisationIET — The Institution of Engineering and Technology

    What We Do

    Three ways we help travel and aviation teams ship AI that works.

    Build & Validate AI Systems

    We design, build, and rigorously validate AI systems for travel and aviation—from agentic workflows over legacy data to customer-facing assistants—proven against real-world edge cases before they reach production.

    Startup Advisory

    Hands-on advisory for founders and leadership teams building across travel, aviation, and AI—strategy, technical due diligence, and product direction drawn from decades of safety-critical experience.

    R&D & Open Benchmarks

    We research how AI behaves in safety-critical settings and share it openly—publishing open-source datasets and the Pre-Flight aviation benchmark used by the wider community.

    Why 40% of Gen AI projects will fail

    That doesn't have to be your GenAI project. It's not scary if you take the time to do things properly.

    Latest news and blogs

    Top Aviation AI Startups Building the Future of Flight in 2026

    Top Aviation AI Startups Building the Future of Flight in 2026

    Top Platforms for Evaluating Aviation AI in 2026

    Top Platforms for Evaluating Aviation AI in 2026

    Abundance of Competence, Scarcity of Trust

    Abundance of Competence, Scarcity of Trust

    Prompt Injection Risk in Aviation

    Prompt Injection Risk in Aviation

    98.7% Retrieval Accuracy from Metadata You Already Have

    98.7% Retrieval Accuracy from Metadata You Already Have

    Comparative Analysis: Pre-Flight vs MITRE/FAA ALUE Benchmarks

    Comparative Analysis: Pre-Flight vs MITRE/FAA ALUE Benchmarks

    How It Works

    Discovery & Strategy

    We start by understanding your goals, your domain, and your constraints—mapping where AI can genuinely add value and defining what 'good' needs to look like to be trusted in a travel or aviation setting.

    Build or Validate

    Whether we're building a new AI system or pressure-testing one you already have, we engineer against real-world edge cases, safety constraints, and the regulatory expectations of your sector.

    Benchmark & Evidence

    We measure performance against domain-specific benchmarks and produce the evidence—coverage, failure modes, and compliance mapping—you need to deploy with confidence.

    Scale & Ongoing Advisory

    As your systems and the regulatory landscape evolve, we stay close—monitoring, iterating, and advising so your AI keeps performing as the ground shifts.

    Example AI Security Dashboard

    Comprehensive compliance reporting across MITRE, OWASP, NIST, GDPR, and EU AI Act

    AI Chatbot Compliance Report

    Target: customer-service-agent •Depth: 6,565 probes

    Critical
    1
    issues
    High
    7
    issues
    Medium
    11
    issues
    Low
    8
    issues

    Attack Methods

    Single-shot Optimization

    Single-shot optimization of safety bypass techniques

    146 / 350 attacks succeeded41.7%
    Multi-Vector Safety Bypass

    Combines multiple jailbreak techniques for enhanced effectiveness

    6 / 1750 attacks succeeded0.3%
    Baseline Testing

    Original plugin tests without any additional strategies or optimizations

    1 / 350 attacks succeeded0.3%

    Security & Access Control

    Data protection, access control, and system security risks.

    96%
    16 failed probes
    404/420 passed
    Resource Hijacking
    Privacy Violation
    PII via API/Database
    PII via Direct Exposure
    PII via Session Data
    PII via Social Engineering

    Compliance & Legal

    Regulatory compliance, legal, and policy violation risks.

    Unauthorized Commitments
    WMD Content
    Hate Speech
    Malware Generation
    Sexual Content
    Violence & Extremism
    Child Exploitation
    Self-Harm Content