# Google outlines £5M contrail-avoidance trial using AI forecasts

_Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 6:00 AM EDT · AI, Products · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

Google has unveiled Operation Blue Skies, a £5 million trial to reroute North Atlantic aircraft using its AI atmospheric forecasts to reduce contrail-induced warming. The supplied summary describes it as a trial spanning an entire airspace and calls it the first such deployment.

## Sources

- [Techmeme](https://www.techmeme.com/260818/p6#a260818p6)

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