{"id":211309,"date":"2025-04-28T19:16:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T19:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accountants4yourbusiness.co.uk\/aerospace\/lufthansa-introduces-ai-to-reduce-in-flight-meal-wastage\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T19:16:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T19:16:03","slug":"lufthansa-introduces-ai-to-reduce-in-flight-meal-wastage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accountants4yourbusiness.co.uk\/?p=211309","title":{"rendered":"Lufthansa introduces AI to reduce in-flight meal wastage"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The Lufthansa Group has revealed how it is using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to reduce the amount of wastage created by overproducing inflight meals and to reduce costs. The software, known within the airline as \u2018Tray Tracker<\/em>\u2019, has been developed in-house by Lufthansa Group technicians to precisely measure and reduce the number of inflight meals that are returned and left uneaten, leading to them having to be disposed of.<\/p>\n

With the Group\u2019s Tray Tracker application, the mobile technology scans meal returns from the onboard catering of flights at the dishwashing line. Artificial Intelligence used by the system recognizes whether a meal has been partially eaten, completely eaten, or left untouched. The innovative mobile device was developed by the Lufthansa Group<\/a> Digital Catering Analytics Team in cooperation with Lufthansa Group subsidiary zeroG.<\/p>\n

The flight route, travel class, and meal concept are also included in the analysis, which allows further drilling down into the data to create regional and by-route variation reports. Lufthansa Group says that the insights gained will enable it to optimize portion sizes and meal selection in the future. In addition, the Tray Tracker will contribute to reducing CO\u2082 emissions in the future, adds a Group statement, as avoiding overload reduces the total weight of the aircraft and reduces the amount of fuel that needs to be carried. \u00a0At the same time, less food is transported, used, and disposed of.<\/p>\n