TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

That’s significantly more than for a first-class seat on a domestic airline but also significantly more affordable than a private jet charter. Image Credits: Aero. A typical one-way trip from San Francisco to Los Cabos will set you back about $2,300. The average fare across the company’s network is about $1,700.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

MIT event, moderated by Lan Guan, CAIO at Accenture Accenture “98% of business leaders say they want to adopt AI, right, but a lot of them just don’t know how to do it,” claimed Guan, who is currently working with a large airliner in Saudi Arabia, a large pharmaceutical company, and a high-tech company to implement generative AI blueprints in-house.

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CIO

JANUARY 4, 2023

The last thing any CIO wants is to experience catastrophic operational issues during a peak season, but that’s exactly what executives at Southwest Airlines faced last week. 19-28 far exceeded any other airlines’ operational impacts. Even before the blizzard hit, Southwest Airlines CEO Bob Jordan acknowledged on Nov.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Joby Aviation is partnering with Japanese airline ANA to bring aerial ridesharing services to Japan. Toyota Motor Corporation will be partnering with the two companies, as well, in order to explore ways to connect the air taxis to ground-based transportation.

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CIO

AUGUST 1, 2024

In the wake of the widespread outage caused by a defective update to CrowdStrike’s Falcon cybersecurity platform, Delta Airlines is among the first enterprises to come forward to demand compensation from CrowdStrike and Microsoft for the enormous losses caused by the interruption of its flights during the failure.

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CIO

MAY 1, 2025

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently lauded one SLM developed by a major airliner he saw in a demonstration in Tokyo. With our SLM Phi, flight attendants at Japan Airlines are spending less time on paperworkand more time with passengers, Nadella posted on LinkedIn.

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CIO

JANUARY 25, 2023

As CIO of United Airlines, Jason Birnbaum is laser focused on using technology and data to enable the company’s 86,000 employees to create as seamless a customer travel experience as possible. Now, we have collaborative conversations about accountability for business outcomes, not system performance.”

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 5, 2023

The post Southwest Airlines: ‘Shameful’ Technical Debt Bites Back appeared first on DevOps.com. Last month’s débâcle of canceled flights was caused by decades of technical debt. That’s the analysis of Columbia University professor Zeynep Tufekci.

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CIO

APRIL 19, 2024

Taking the helm as CIO is a major transition for any IT leader, but Lauren Woods’ experience at Southwest Airlines stands apart. I ended up leaning on my partners in the business and learning so much from them about how our airline worked and what it was like on the operational side,” she says. “It

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Coforge

MAY 5, 2025

Airlines run on data, speed, and experience today, and Passenger Service Systems (PSS) are at the heart of it all. However, as airlines modernize their technology landscape, migrating from legacy PSS platforms to next-gen systems has become inevitable and incredibly complex. What is PSS, and What Does PSS Migration Involve?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Airlines have a relatively straightforward goal — getting people in seats — but they’ve traditionally relied on inefficient and outdated statistical modeling methods to predict what prices and other conditions will sell tickets. Enter FLYR Labs. — the model will get smarter over time, FLYR says.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

For example, when major airlines were bombarded with cancellation requests at the onset of the pandemic, RPA became essential to their customer service strategy. According to Forrester, one major airline had over 120,000 cancellations during the first few weeks of the pandemic.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Archer Aviation’s announcement comes two weeks since it landed United Airlines as a customer and an investor in its bid to become a publicly traded company via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company. United Airlines, which has a major hub in Los Angeles, was one of the investors in the deal.

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Altexsoft

JULY 30, 2020

Even before the pandemic, the industry was going through a crisis, so airlines fought hard to track down and close every loophole. Often created by travel agents and customers (both accidentally and not), these holes account for about 3 percent of the airline’s revenue. Airline revenue leakage. Couldn’t be more relevant, right?

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Altexsoft

MAY 21, 2020

In this article, we’ll figure out what BSP and ARC mean and — more importantly — why you should care, if you are a travel agent that wants to issue flight tickets on behalf of airlines. Sounds complicated, but in plain English, BSP is a payment mediator between airlines and travel agents. Start there and then come back.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Founded by a former flight attendant, Atlanta-based startup Travelsist and its Travelsistants provides assistance to travelers on behalf of airports and airlines. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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CIO

APRIL 2, 2025

In a lawsuit the airline filed in October, Delta claimed the faulty update was pushed out in an unsafe manner and CrowdStrike should pay for the losses. Delta alone had more than $500 million in losses as a result of crippled operations and thousands of flight cancellations and delays.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Heart Aerospace raises $35M Series A, lands order with United and Mesa Airlines for 200 aircraft. Cape Air and Global Crossing Airlines ordered 75 and 50 aircraft respectively; both are regional airlines that could use Alice type electric craft to cover a majority of their flights. Why don’t we use them already, you ask?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Running an airline is a tough industry, with many companies either folding shop or merging with rivals to survive. Being an airline passenger isn’t a walk in the park, for a litany of reasons that anyone who has ever been in an airport can easily enumerate. The big idea?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The increasing need to reduce carbon emissions drives many industries, including airlines and transportation, to seek sustainable alternatives to meet emission reduction targets and fulfill corporate social responsibility commitments.

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Altexsoft

APRIL 16, 2021

Whether your business is focused on selling airline tickets, package trips, or cruises, if you want to be acknowledged as a professional in the travel industry, you need to be certified. So, ARC or Airline Reporting Corporation is a company that regulates and handles transactions between airlines and US-based travel agencies.

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CIO

MAY 25, 2023

Deneen DeFiore is a Hall of Fame technology executive who currently serves as vice president and chief information security officer at United Airlines, where she leads the cybersecurity and digital risk organization to ensure the company is prepared to prevent, detect, and respond to evolving cyber threats.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

JANUARY 29, 2025

Just Venmo the airline. Paying for a group trip?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

These include necessities like food, groceries and education supplies, but also things like airline tickets, gaming and e-commerce. Its merchants include e-commerce platforms and offline retailers, like Isetann Supermarket, Lazada, Zalora, Shopee, Agoda, McDonald’s, Philippine Airlines, Razer E-Pins and National Bookstores.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Archer Aviation, the electric aircraft startup targeting the urban air mobility market , is teaming up with United Airlines to become a publicly traded company via, you guessed it, a SPAC. Archer lands $1B order from United Airlines and a SPAC deal.

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Teradata

JUNE 2, 2022

Learn how data and analytics can enable airlines to navigate towards more streamlined operations. Read more.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Whatever the reason, if you happen to miss a connection on a multiple-leg flight and you have opted for the disruption insurance service, you’ll be presented with every flight leaving that particular airport, regardless of airline, to your destination and you can select an available option at no additional cost.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Roy Cohen believes that there’s a severe underinvestment in tech within the airline industry, with airlines continuing to rely on legacy systems and outdated infrastructures that date back decades. “Fetcherr predicts demand using real-time, sophisticated models and automatically provides pricing recommendations.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

Zeroheight counts several Fortune 500 companies like Adobe and United Airlines as customers among its 1,300+ customer base. And so because of this you now need centralization, you need components that are reusable so that teams can be efficient and not lose quality as it keeps shipping.”.

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CEO Insider

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

According to International Air Transport Association, the global airline industry incurred net losses of $52bn in 2021 and is expected to lose an additional $12bn in 2022. The post Escaping the eye of the storm – Lessons in crisis management from the airline industry appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

This helps to avoid situations where a flight or price shows up in search results but isn’t available on the airline’s or other seller’s website. In addition, Goldstein said Flight Penguin will show “all the flights.” “We’re choosing not to play that game.”

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CIO

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Each Hangar houses agile coaches, business analysts, data and analytics specialists, product owners, Scrum masters, software engineers, and user interface designers — all with one mission: to elevate the airlines’ digital customer experience before, during, and after the flight. Experience is not only the cherry on the cake.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

Delta’s deal to buy sustainable aviation fuel that would offset a portion of the carbon emissions associated with Deloitte’s business travel is one small step toward greening the airline industry, but the question is whether it’s a significant first step or just an attempt to greenwash the unsustainable travel habits of a consulting (..)

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CIO

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Like many airlines, Lufthansa Group had its business upended by the COVID-19 pandemic. By April 2020, with travel bans proliferating, the airline suffered losses of €1 million per hour. We strongly believe and focus a lot on how we can give better data to cabin crews so they can, for instance, welcome you.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

The facility got its start in 2018 when Crop One, an indoor vertical farming company, and Emirates Flight, the airline Emirates catering arm, signed a $40 million joint venture to build Emirates Crop One. AgFunder reported the $40 million was a majority debt funded.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

Archer, a company that’s looking to develop an airline of electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for use in urban transport, will work with automaker Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) in a new partnership to benefit from the latter’s expertise in engineering, design, supply chain and materials science.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

If you are looking for an easier way to get through the airport, Alaska Airlines is here to deliver. The airline has a new electronic bag tag that is making everything about checking a bag easier, Frederic writes. (TechCrunch+ is our membership program, which helps founders and startup teams get ahead. You can sign up here.).

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