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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

CIO

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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Airline Marketing and Advertising Use Cases from American Airlines, Ryanair, Air France, and Others

Altexsoft

Airline industry made an impact on how we buy things today, and how those things are marketed. Just a couple of examples: electronic tickets were first developed for fare ticketing, while one of the first online booking systems was built by airline distribution company SABRE. Scandinavian airlines first class in 70s and now.

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5 tips for better business value from gen AI

CIO

According to AI at Wartons report on navigating gen AIs early years, 72% of enterprises predict gen AI budget growth over the next 12 months but slower increases over the next two to five years. But if all gen AI does is improve productivity, CIOs may be challenged long term to justify budget increases and experiments with new capabilities.

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2022 crypto predictions from Prime Trust CFO Rodrigo Vicuna

TechCrunch

ust look at the numbers: 80 million unique crypto wallets; Bitcoin and Ether grew 60% and 407%, respectively; El Salvador adopted bitcoin as official currency; the NFT market generated $2.5 Media coverage, financial institutions, and companies with hefty marketing budgets jumped in and made it seem as if mass adoption was already here.

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Lufthansa’s digital future takes flight with ‘Digital Hangar’

CIO

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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Crew management in airlines: planning and scheduling with Sabre, Jeppesen, and others

Altexsoft

On par with fuel, crew related costs are the major operating expense for airlines. European airlines usually let personnel request for destinations, day-offs, reserve periods, trip lengths and other elements to create individual rosters. Source: Team-Oriented Airline Crew Rostering. Components of the crew scheduling problem.

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Low-?ost Airline Distribution Channels: Direct Distribution, NDC, GDSs, and Low-cost Airline Consolidators

Altexsoft

Airline distribution has always been a complex subject. On one side of the airline industry, we have legacy carriers mostly represented by full-service airlines. How airline distribution works in a nutshell. Travelfusion works with such carriers as Eurowings, Flybe, and Spirit Airlines.