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United Airlines’ AI strategy: The airline that makes decisions fastest wins

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At United Airlines, AI has been a long-term strategic investment, not a recent initiative. This forward-thinking approach stems from a clear business philosophy that in the airline industry specifically, the carrier quickest to make complex decisions gains the competitive edge. What internal challenges has gen AI helped you to solve?

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American Airlines takes flight with analytics transformation

CIO

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, airlines have struggled with bad weather, fewer air traffic controllers, and a shortage of pilots, all leading to an unprecedented number of cancelations in 2022. Leibman notes that American Airlines operates every hour of every day. American Airlines. “We Leibman, who stepped down on Sept.

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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

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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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WestCap and Peter Thiel-backed FLYR Labs closes $150M Series C

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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have a relatively straightforward goal — getting people in seats — but they’ve traditionally relied on inefficient and outdated statistical modeling methods to predict what prices and other conditions will sell tickets.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. Image Credits: FLYR Labs (opens in a new window).

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Hopper raises $170M and partners with Capital One on a new cardholder travel booking portal

TechCrunch

” That pre-COVID transformation that Pichette is referring to is Hopper’s shift from being essentially a machine learning-powered lowest fare finder to what co-founder and CEO Fred Lalonde says is really much more of a fintech company. And so if it has these attributes, then we’re interested.”

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Fraud protection startup nSure AI raises $6.8M in seed funding

TechCrunch

The round will help the company bolster the predictive AI and machine learning algorithms that power nSure AI’s “first of its kind” fraud protection platform. The founders began to develop their own platform for supporting the sale of high-risk digital goods after no other fraud detection service met their needs.

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Sylvera takes $32M to build trust in carbon offsetting ratings

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based startup which uses machine learning technology to analyze a variety of visual data like satellite imagery and lidar with the goal of boosting accountability and credibility around carbon offsetting projects, has fast followed a $5.8 Sylvera , a U.K.-based million seed round in May last year by closing a $32 million Series A.