Emirates Airlines yesterday said it is leveraging new technologies to bring more comfort in the air transportation business. Senior Manager, Base Operations of the company, Mr Christopher Welham, who took journalist on tour of the airlines engineering section in Dubai yesterday, said because the future is technology, Emirates is trying to deploy Artificial Intelligence-based technologies not only to maintain its leadership in the aviation business, but to provide additional comfort to its passengers. Welham said: we have partnerships with the engine manufacturers such as GE, RollsRoyce and engine alliance, and they are for prognostic solutions. So, an aircraft while in flight is constantly sending down data of the engine and we are trying to predict a failure before it happens. And at the moment, I would say we are at about 90% maturity, and that's because some of the manufacturers of some of the components, still aren't able to provide enough data, but we are getting better". He added: "However, we've now managed internally, things like; if an aircraft is ready for departure, we are able to monitor the temperature in the cabin, so in the summer, we control it because we don't want passengers to get unto a hot cabin.