London – October 13, 2026 -- Allegra RMS, the airport resource management system built by AirportLabs, has been named an honoree in the user experience category of Fast Company's 2026 Innovation by Design Awards, the product's second recognition this year.
Allegra RMS shares the UX category with Adobe, Google and Framer
Fast Company describes the user experience category as honoring projects that consider a user's journey from beginning to end, whether in an app, a physical product or a brick-and-mortar experience. This year's honorees in the category include Adobe, Google and Framer. The awards span transportation, workplace, health, packaging and artificial intelligence.
AirportLabs deploys Allegra RMS at Chicago O'Hare and more than 20 airports
The system is live at Chicago O'Hare, which AirportLabs calls one of the most complex airport operations in the world, and at more than 20 airports worldwide.
Allegra RMS uses AI to allocate stands, gates, baggage belts and check-in counters against a single live data layer and each airport's own business rules. It re-optimises continuously through the day rather than fixing allocations once and patching them by hand.
Allegra RMS merges schedules, movements and forecasts into one operational data source
The platform draws schedules, movements, resource status and demand forecasts from systems already in place and resolves them into one source of operational data. Resources previously planned in separate tools by separate teams are planned together, on the same data, under the same rules. A stand change is visible to check-in, and a delay is visible to the baggage belts.
On top of that data layer, demand analysis compares scheduled flights against predicted flights before a peak arrives. Scenario planning tests a day against capacity before it runs, and utilisation is reported in real time.
Operators keep final authority over every AI allocation
The system proposes and the operator decides. Every allocation is visible, traceable and open to manual intervention. AirportLabs says this feature earned the design recognition.
Ligiu Uiorean, Director of AirportLabs, said airport operations software is rarely judged on how it feels to use, and that the award shows the design thinking carries beyond aviation.