Lukas Rudari

Lukas
RudariPhD · PMP

I take aviation data and AI use cases from slide deck to shipped.

Aviation & logistics consulting Data, AI & transformation EN / DE / FR
Coast Mountains, British Columbia · 2025

Track record

Ten years, read as a plan

Trained in consulting, then a decade inside the airlines, handlers and cargo platforms on the receiving end of it. Living with your own recommendations changes what you recommend.

201620182020202220242026
cargo.one · Vienna, Austria (remote)
  • Ran end-to-end partner operations across 70+ integrated airline and logistics partners
  • Led product expansion into AI capabilities across the value chain
  • Built scalable frameworks for partner lifecycle management, from technical integration through performance optimisation
  • Owned the onboarding experience for large forwarding clients, cutting time to value
WestJet · Calgary, Canada
  • Delivered an AI-powered pricing model across business, IT, cybersecurity and executive leadership, rolled out enterprise-wide
  • Rebuilt and launched SkyProf, a cloud profitability analytics platform, with Finance and IT
  • Shipped 30+ rapid proofs of concept using generative AI and NLP for guest segmentation and contact centre monitoring
  • Built and led the cross-functional team behind data, AI and analytics delivery
Austrian Airlines · Vienna, Austria
  • Co-led the enterprise digital transformation portfolio, from data implementations to KPI reporting
  • Built QPR, an executive analytics tool that centralised KPI visibility across functions
  • Ran the Customer Quality Taskforce restoring post-COVID operations during Lufthansa Group ramp-up
Swissport · Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Led the Benelux regional transformation roadmap
  • Designed an operating model for accountability that was later adopted globally
  • Delivered transition planning and restructuring for post-pandemic volume surges in Amsterdam and Brussels
Austrian Airlines · Vienna, Austria
  • Launched Digital Boardroom, automating C-level reporting and cutting meeting prep
  • Owned the end-to-end strategy process across business units, turning executive priorities into scoped projects and KPIs
  • Replaced static reports with dynamic dashboards enabling scenario planning
Accenture · Amsterdam, NL / Minneapolis, MN
  • Led workforce management optimisation for a major logistics and transportation client
  • Designed workforce and resource planning models for large-scale operations clients facing seasonality and complexity
  • Promoted from Analyst to Management Consultant in three years
Consulting Operating roles

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Outcomes

What the work covered

5

Operating roles inside airlines, handlers and cargo platforms

4

Enterprise systems built and launched

30+

Proofs of concept shipped

70+

Integrated partners operated

Selected programmes

Generative AI pricing engine

WestJet with Fetcherr

Implementation of a Large Market Model for automated pricing, inventory and publishing decisions, coordinated across commercial, IT, cybersecurity and executive leadership.

Senior project lead. Directed the project managers, ran the steering committee and presented to the executive.

TravelPulse Canada

Atmospheric observation programme with NOAA

WestJet with FLYHT

Water vapour sensors fitted to five aircraft on Pacific routes, feeding wind, temperature and moisture profiles to the US National Weather Service through the National Mesonet Program. NOAA described them as the first such installations on aircraft in a decade.

Senior project lead. Directed the project managers, ran the steering committee and presented to the executive.

Skies Magazine

SkyProf profitability platform

WestJet with Finance and IT

Cloud profitability analytics rebuilt and relaunched, alongside a programme of rapid proofs of concept applying generative AI and NLP to guest segmentation and contact centre performance.

Research

Published work

Peer-reviewed research carried out at Purdue with Professor Mary E. Johnson, across two strands: flight crew fatigue and duty-time regulation under FAR Part 117, and airline sustainability reporting. The full publication and citation record is on Google Scholar.

  • Pilot Perceptions on Impact of Crew Rest Regulations on Safety and Fatigue

    Peer-reviewed · Int. Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace 3(1), 2016 · Open access

    With Johnson, Geske and Sperlak. Surveyed 92 pilots on the FAA's Part 117 crew rest rule shortly after it took effect: 43% reported a positive impact on overall safety against 30% who reported a negative one. The most cited paper of the set, and later used as the basis for flight-time-limitation survey instruments in European research.

  • Sustainability Reporting Practices of Group III U.S. Air Carriers

    Peer-reviewed · Int. Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace 2(2), 2015 · Open access

    With Mary E. Johnson. Surveyed sustainability reporting among U.S. carriers above $1bn in revenue and found just over half published reports, most against the Global Reporting framework. Since cited in reviews of airline sustainability reporting.

  • The Sustainability of FAR Part 117: Flight and Duty Limitation and Rest Requirements for Flight Crewmembers

    Peer-reviewed · Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 58(1), 2014

    Sustainability analysis of the new Part 117 rest requirements across economic, social, environmental and organisational dimensions, drawing on responses from 53 management, maintenance and safety staff rather than pilots.

  • A Model of U.S. Airline Corporate Social Responsibility Practices

    Doctoral dissertation · Purdue University, 2017 · Advisor: Mary E. Johnson

    Examined CSR practice and motivation at American, Delta, Southwest and United, combining SASB-based performance measurement with interviews of airline sustainability managers, and developed a matrix model of the differences between them.

Credentials

Education and certification

Education

  • PhD, Technology

    Purdue University

    3.9 / 4.0. Dissertation on corporate social responsibility practices of U.S. airlines. Teaching and research assistant.

  • MSc, Aerospace & Aviation Management

    Purdue University

    4.0 / 4.0. Thesis on the impact of carbon emission trading on airline profitability.

  • BSc, International Business Management

    Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU)

    Specialisation in transportation management and entrepreneurship / innovation.

Certifications

Field notes

Eighteen years at the window

Personal photographs, 2008 to 2026. Seven of the airlines, liveries, aircraft or airports in this set no longer exist, which is roughly the point: this industry rewrites itself faster than the people advising it usually admit.

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