Airside Labs

Airside Labs is an AI systems and advisory firm focused on travel and aviation. It helps organizations build and validate AI for operational and customer-facing uses, including agentic workflows that connect legacy aviation data with mission-critical operations. Its work begins with discovery and strategy, then moves through engineering, domain-specific testing, benchmarking and ongoing support. Systems are assessed against real-world edge cases, safety constraints and sector regulatory expectations, with evidence on performance, failure modes and compliance to support informed deployment.

The company also provides hands-on advisory to startup founders and leadership teams working across travel, aviation and AI, covering strategy, technical due diligence and product direction. Its research and open-resource work examines AI in safety-critical settings. Airside Labs publishes open-source datasets and benchmarks, including the Pre-Flight aviation benchmark, and shares aviation AI use cases and guidance through articles, a podcast and a newsletter. Its offerings also include AI security and compliance testing, such as chatbot assessments mapped to MITRE, OWASP, NIST, GDPR and the EU AI Act.