Altexsoft

DECEMBER 10, 2019

In this article, we’ll discuss airline software suites, their major modules, and available modern solutions, created to change the current state of things for the better. Its mission is to keep operations running smoothly, and failures in its work can cost airlines tens of millions of dollars in lost revenue.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are good examples of the first kind — social media didn’t exist before the internet. Discount airlines, cell phones (not smartphones) and integrated circuits are good examples of the “faster, cheaper, simpler” variety, because they simply displaced familiar incumbents.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In the old, pre-internet days, travel agents ruled the roost when it came to booking tickets and overall vacations for many consumers and businesses, both as individuals and groups. And more involved the trip, the larger the amount of suppliers from restaurants and transport companies to airlines and hotels and more.”

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

MARCH 7, 2025

The 'friendly skies' just got free and fast internet.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As lean as things got, that time afforded the opportunity to rebuild by flipping the script: Air New Zealand was going to become a digital company that happened to be an airline, rather than an airline with a digital department. This is a chance to start practicing what an airline of the future could look like.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

. — Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a drone : Dronamics raised $40 million in a pre-Series A round (or really big seed round if you’d rather look at it that way) to start an autonomous cargo drone airline in Europe, Mike writes.

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CIO

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Both United Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines saw service outages in 2023 resulting from wonky software upgrades, and Southwest ended the previous year with a Christmas travel meltdown blamed on outdated systems. Probably the worst IT airline disaster of 2023 came on the government side, however.

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Altexsoft

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The airline industry is no different. Over the past two decades, the airline industry – like many others – has become increasingly digital. If you’ve read an AltexSoft article on revenue integrity in airlines , you know that ticket manipulations are one of the main sources of revenue leakage.

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Kentik

MARCH 27, 2023

Fiber optics The submarine cables that move internet traffic around the world are made from silica glass fiber optic strands that most network engineers are likely familiar with. People working together About 99% of all intercontinental internet traffic goes over submarine cables. Who owns the cables?

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The Accidental Successful CIO

MAY 16, 2018

Airlines run on their IT systems and CIOs have to keep these running. When we think about the person who has the CIO job, we think of someone who spends their time thinking about the importance of information technology including such things as cloud computing, building new data centers, and the arrival of the internet of things.

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Altexsoft

APRIL 12, 2019

Since aircraft were presented as a means of public transportation in the early 40s, airlines got thousands of passengers wanting to buy tickets. The events chosen will depict the gradual change of reservation systems, giving a solid understanding of how airline distribution had developed.

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Altexsoft

JUNE 10, 2021

In the 1980s, American Airlines and its former president Robert Crandall started a revolution in airline pricing. Crandall is famous for many airline innovations that we use today, such as inventing the first frequent flier program and contributing to route optimization and central reservation system adoption.

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Altexsoft

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Typically posted by airlines themselves, seat maps allow passengers to visually choose which seat would fit them better and where it’s positioned in relation to emergency exits, wings, or the toilet. So, seat selection is extremely important for passengers, airlines, and distributors such as OTAs. Ancillary sharing. User experience.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Times have been tough for United airlines in the past. A bit before that the airline had had to delay 500 of their flights because of a second glitch in two weeks of the computer systems that run the airline. United airlines has been dealing with some bad press as of late. The Challenge Of Overbooking.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Prior to becoming CEO of Foursquare, Gary was MD of Raine, leading the technology practice with a focus on advisory assignments and principal investments in consumer internet, enterprise software and emerging technology. Share on Twitter.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

NASA Developed Technology Aims to Save Commercial Airlines Fuel, Time. Federal Researchers Want to Untangle Internet of Things - Nextgov. Taking the 'cyber' out of security - GCN.com. 4 steps to prepare for the shutdown. A neglected casualty of a government shutdown - FCW.com. We don't have a way to code good guy' - FCW.com.

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CTOvision

JULY 6, 2015

The following are some of the hot topics in the federal technology ecosystem: Senate advances secret plan forcing Internet services to report terror activity Ars Technica (Today) - Legislation modeled on 2008 law requiring Internet companies to report child porn.The legislation, approved 15-0 in a closed-door hearing, remains "classified."

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Altexsoft

JUNE 19, 2019

From the airline side, it involves many events and systems to issue a ticket and make sure that the right person will get into the plane. Airline distribution: how does it work? And in this case, it’s the way airlines distribute their tickets. Airline distribution pipeline. Let’s start at the very beginning.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

If you reflect on the emerging-tech landscape, you see the following killer apps: Early-day internet: E-commerce. It’s sort of like how “internet” sometimes means “the underlying network connectivity layer,” and other times, “the web.”) So I’ll hold my nose and use it here. Hands-down.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2022

There have been increased orders for eVTOL aircraft, starting with United Airline’s $1 billion order with Archer. Reporter Rita Liao wrote a deep dive on Chinese internet giant Meituan’s dominance of the drone delivery space in Shenzhen. All of this movement is setting the stage for what’s to come in 2022.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

MAY 18, 2016

Airline CIOs are going to have to make some tough in-flight internet decisions Image Credit: Christopher Doyle. Back in the day, airline passengers could be assured that their time in the air meant that they had an excuse to unplug and step away from the constant need to do more and more work.

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CableLabs

APRIL 22, 2025

Your provider would monitor both and ensure all your devices, security services and Internet of Things (IoT) applications remain online. If your gateway and service provider provided a solution like CaaS, you wouldnt need to worry about your wired or wireless connection at home or work going down.

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Altexsoft

JANUARY 19, 2022

It means that people want to travel responsibly, so hotels, airlines, and tour companies have to keep up and satisfy their customers (and attract new ones). Sustainability in airline industry. Airlines implement fuel management systems to measure, analyze, and plan fuel expenditure. Here are some areas to focus on.

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Altexsoft

MARCH 30, 2019

Worldwide air freight traffic increases every year: in 2018 commercial airlines were estimated to carry almost 64 million metric tons of cargo , and in 2019 the number is expected to grow. Transporting any cargo with airlines, especially overseas, requires up to 30 documents, which means loads of paper to send and to not lose.

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 17, 2014

One such challenge came up earlier this week over at US Airways (now part of American Airlines), when a company Tweet went way off the rails. It inadvertently sent a (very) obscene image over the Internet (Note: the link is to a news story, not the image or Tweet). I mean, WAY off.

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Altexsoft

JULY 30, 2021

To meet the popular customer requirement “to fly from anywhere to anywhere” and reduce inconveniences associated with multi-leg journeys, airlines have no other alternative but to cooperate with each other. Key partnership frameworks in aviation were designed decades ago, in the era of large state-owned airlines and regulated fares.

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Crunchbase News

MAY 8, 2024

Numerous prominent brands — including General Motors , American Airlines and Six Flags — went through bankruptcy. Starry : Boston-based Starry, an internet service provider and developer of fixed wireless technology, didn’t fly high for long after going public via SPAC in early 2022 at an initial $1.8 billion valuation.

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Kentik

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

A “network issue” in a global flight-booking system caused major airline delays. The cable is capable of transmitting 160 terabits of data per second, the equivalent of streaming 71 million HD videos at the same time, and 16 million times faster than an average home internet connection,” reports The Verge.

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Altexsoft

MAY 8, 2020

Without this software component, you can neither sell nor buy airline tickets or hotel reservations through the Internet. Internet booking engine: its key functionality and main integrations. Internet booking engine: its key functionality and main integrations. airline reservation systems ( ARSs ).

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TechTalk

APRIL 16, 2019

Now, we have the same feeling when the internet is down. This is especially true for financial, online retail, airlines and service providers. When we were hunter-gatherers, we felt the fight-or-flight response when a tiger or bear entered our camp. Businesses have higher expectations on the availability of their networks.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 13, 2017

While a single travel agent would rely on their own knowledge, connections, and reach to offer you the best deal, big data has the resources and outreach of hundreds and hundreds of travel agents with more direct connection to the airlines, hotels, and car rentals themselves. They’re Letting Airlines, Rentals, and Hotels Cater to Them.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 9, 2015

Today, policymakers in every branch of the US government as well as the press are vulnerable to such attacks if the devices they use connect to the Internet. We’re the nation that invented the Internet and first landed on the moon. Ask any professional involved in covert activities today and they will confirm the game is well underway.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Lewis and Dr. Rhonda Anderson of the ODNI National Intelligence Council will be moderating a panel of Dr Chris Reed (IARPA), Mr. Mark White (Deloitte) and myself on topics of the Internet of Things and its implication for intelligence. United Airlines. Tom Conway. Director, Federal Business Development. FireEye, Inc. Mr. James Comey.

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CTOvision

JULY 8, 2015

All United Airlines flights in US grounded: Computer “glitch” cited as cause CTOvision (Today) - The entire U.S. The transparency. travel system is under strain today causing a major disruption to business and pleasure travel on all carriers do to what United is calling a computer systems.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

AUGUST 6, 2024

A bad upgrade from CrowdStrike caused many Windows systems to crash, causing serious service interruptions for airlines, hospitals, and other organizations. After a user downloads the malware—which does nothing overtly hostile—SnailLoad monitors internet latency. Can AI do a better job of determining who should access what and when?

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Altexsoft

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Evidence of receipt of goods by an airline – once signed, it’s a legal proof that an air carrier received the goods to be transported (in case any disputes arise). A sample AWB number where 518 is the Canadian North airline code, 4102010 is the serial number, and 3 is the check digit. Types of AWBs: airline-specific AWB vs neutral AWB.

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CTOvision

JUNE 3, 2016

The mission of this summit is to provide airlines, operators, integrators and technology vendors with a means to continuously enhance the benefits of connected solutions, from ground to air and from nose to tail. Bob Gourley. The Global Connected Aircraft Summit will be held 6-8 June 2016 in Hollywood California.

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