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Delta Airlines to ‘rethink Microsoft’ in wake of CrowdStrike outage

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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. A shift ahead?

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Joby Aviation acquires Avionyx to accelerate aerospace software certification

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Joby Aviation , a California-based company developing electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles (eVTOL) for commercial passenger service , announced the acquisition of Avionyx , an aerospace software engineering firm, on the TechCrunch Sessions: Mobility stage on Wednesday.

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CrowdStrike incident has CIOs rethinking their cloud strategies

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The widespread disruption caused by the recent CrowdStrike software glitch, which led to a global outage of Windows systems, has sent shockwaves through the IT community. Organizations and CISOs must review their cloud strategies, and the automatic updating of patches should be discouraged.

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United Airlines gives employees the digital tools to make customers happy

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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. That was our story, and we worked very diligently to change the narrative.”

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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. 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. We’re a better airline for it,” she says.

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Revenue Integrity in Airlines: How to Solve Revenue Leakage Problems

Altexsoft

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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Airline Reporting Corporation and IATA Billing and Settlement Plan: How they Work

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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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