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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 airlinesoperational impacts. Even before the blizzard hit, Southwest Airlines CEO Bob Jordan acknowledged on Nov.

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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

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Delta alone had more than $500 million in losses as a result of crippled operations and thousands of flight cancellations and delays. 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.

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have a relatively straightforward goal — getting people in seats — but they’ve traditionally relied on inefficient and outdated statistical modeling methods to predict what prices and other conditions will sell tickets.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

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How Southwest’s CIO modernized the airline through turbulent times

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Taking the helm as CIO is a major transition for any IT leader, but Lauren Woods’ experience at Southwest Airlines stands apart. Focused on growth, the company’s leadership had deprioritized modernizing internal systems, hiring IT staff, and updating internal processes to keep pace with its growth agenda.

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Airline Reservation Systems and Passenger Service Systems: Navitaire, Amadeus Altea, SabreSonic and more

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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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Optimizing Oracle Databases at a Global Airline

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One such Fortune 100 company is the client in our recent case study: a major global airline company undergoing serious design and performance issues with its Oracle applications, including Oracle Database. Check out our case study “ Major Global Airline Lowers Costs and Maximizes Data Insights with Datavail Partnership.”

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12 most popular AI use cases in the enterprise today

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Delta Airlines has used AIOps to create a “full-scale digital simulation environment for its global operation,” which the company says is a “first in commercial passenger aviation,” to maintain reliability, especially during inclement weather. Artificial Intelligence, Chatbots, IT Strategy, Predictive Analytics