BOSTON — March 26, 2026 — Tomorrow.io today announced the roll-out of Altitude™, its aviation-specific intelligence platform, spotlighting Lufthansa’s deployment across its network as a new model for how airlines embed weather directly into operational decision-making at scale.
Lufthansa operates nearly 800 flights a day across one of the most complex route networks in the world, serving more than 150,000 passengers daily. At that scale, the margin between a strong operational decision and a costly one is often measured in minutes, and the quality of that decision depends on how quickly the right information reaches the right person.
Lufthansa saw an opportunity to modernize how weather intelligence supports the demands of modern airline operations and rethought how the impacts of weather move through the airline — shifting from manual processes and fragmented tools to intelligence embedded directly in the systems and workflows that run the operation. To make that transformation real, Lufthansa partnered with Tomorrow.io and deployed the Altitude solution across its network.
“Prior to our partnership with Tomorrow.io, our greatest weather challenge was getting a truly holistic picture globally,” said Dirk Dewald, Senior Director at Lufthansa. “Tomorrow.io has allowed us to unify operations under a single global standard, applying our specific operational rules, so we no longer have to manually scan the globe. We now rely on an integrated platform that proactively alerts us the moment a situation requires our attention.”
Altitude is purpose-built to embed weather intelligence directly into the systems, workflows, and decision layers that run throughout an airline. Built on Tomorrow.io’s proprietary satellite constellation and rapid-refresh physics and AI-driven weather models, Altitude is an agentic aviation resilience platform enabled by Gale, Tomorrow.io’s artificial intelligence engine, together with a full end-to-end integration layer. The platform delivers globally consistent, high-resolution forecasts through standardized APIs, rule-based alerting configured around each operator’s own logic, and continuous network-wide monitoring.
A single diversion decision made on incomplete information can cost anywhere from $22,000 to more than $240,000 for one flight alone, with downstream effects across fuel, crew scheduling, passenger compensation, customer experience, and broader network performance.
Lufthansa’s deployment demonstrates a broader shift in the industry: weather can no longer remain a reference tool sitting outside the operating core. It must become a programmable layer inside the operation itself — continuously monitoring conditions, surfacing what matters, and helping teams act faster and with greater confidence.
“Our partnership with Tomorrow.io is not only about the information they unlock, but also the capabilities to integrate into our systems — making it easy for our people to use the insights our datasets deliver together and have them on hand where they need them, in the tools most valuable to them,” added Dewald.
What makes Altitude different is not only the quality of the weather data, but also its ability to connect that intelligence directly to the decisions that matter most. Lufthansa is already using that foundation to connect forecast intelligence directly to network decisions — assessing which routes are exposed, which operating windows are viable, and which developing situations require attention before they become critical.
“Tomorrow.io has been a fast, smart, valuable partner in advancing AI-driven predictive decision models and in redefining what is possible,” said Dewald. “We see a future where they become foundational infrastructure for aviation — something no major airline will be able to operate without.”
“Aviation has always been defined by the quality of its decisions under pressure,” said Shimon Elkabetz, CEO of Tomorrow.io. “What we are building with Altitude, and what Lufthansa is demonstrating in operation, is a future in which weather intelligence is embedded more deeply into how airlines think, plan, and act. That future is taking shape now, and we believe it is closer than most people realize.”
About Tomorrow.io
Selected by TIME Magazine as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Companies in the World, and by Fast Company as the Most Innovative Logistics Company, and the Most Innovative Space Company over the last two years; Tomorrow.io is the world’s leading Resilience Platform™. Combining next-generation space technology, advanced artificial intelligence, and proprietary weather modeling, Tomorrow.io delivers unmatched forecasting and decision-making capabilities. Trusted by six of the top ten Fortune 500 companies, Tomorrow.io empowers organizations to proactively manage weather-related risks and opportunities and enhance operational efficiency. From cutting-edge weather intelligence to real-time early warning systems, Tomorrow.io enables predictive, impact-based action for a safer, more resilient future. Learn more at Tomorrow.io.
