Altexsoft

JANUARY 31, 2020

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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Altexsoft

JULY 30, 2020

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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Altexsoft

MAY 21, 2020

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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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Roy Cohen believes that there’s a severe underinvestment in tech within the airline industry, with airlines continuing to rely on legacy systems and outdated infrastructures that date back decades. “Fetcherr predicts demand using real-time, sophisticated models and automatically provides pricing recommendations.”

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Altexsoft

APRIL 16, 2021

Whether your business is focused on selling airline tickets, package trips, or cruises, if you want to be acknowledged as a professional in the travel industry, you need to be certified. So, ARC or Airline Reporting Corporation is a company that regulates and handles transactions between airlines and US-based travel agencies.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

The company’s first Systems Review and Compliance Review by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was first approved in March, but the Avionyx buy will help support Joby’s aircraft type certification program with the agency. Joby Aviation partners with Japanese airline to launch air taxi service.

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Altexsoft

JANUARY 29, 2020

On par with fuel, crew related costs are the major operating expense for airlines. The good news is that carriers can save billions of dollars through more sophisticated scheduling systems. Source: Team-Oriented Airline Crew Rostering. And finally, after all the inputs are made, the airline must stay profitable.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

If you are looking for an easier way to get through the airport, Alaska Airlines is here to deliver. The airline has a new electronic bag tag that is making everything about checking a bag easier, Frederic writes. Jaclyn also reports on Rolls-Royce and Hyundai partnering on air taxi hydrogen fuel systems. You can sign up here.).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Unlike similar services that already are offered by riding-hailing companies, SmartRide provides customers with a one-stop travel service, including sightseeing, in addition to booking airline tickets and hotels, Kimura said. Due to the impact of COVID-19, there has been a change in the way people travel, such as avoiding congestion.

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CIO

JULY 26, 2024

They’ll be covering most of that bill themselves, Parametrix said: “The portion of the loss covered under cyber insurance policies is likely to be no more than 10% to 20%, due to many companies’ large risk retentions, and to low policy limits relative to the potential outage loss.” 700 million for remediation alone According to a study by J.

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CIO

OCTOBER 27, 2023

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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CIO

DECEMBER 26, 2023

And because the incumbent companies have been around for so long, many are running IT systems with some elements that are years or decades old. Honestly, it’s a wonder the system works at all. Probably the worst IT airline disaster of 2023 came on the government side, however.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The Taipei-based startup’s clients include Foxconn, ASUS, China Airline, the Taiwan Stock Exchange and Taiwan Mobile. Chen said one of WritePath’s advantages is that its technology, including Warren and corpora management system T-Booster, maintains consistency in corporate language and terminology. CEO Alex Lee.

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CIO

AUGUST 27, 2024

In early 2000, following IT’s unprecedentedly effective response to the Y2K situation, the world botched its after-action review. But before we can even get started: It appears that, no matter how appealing the story, Southwest Airlines wasn’t immune to the CrowdStrike bug because its servers run on Windows 3.1.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

The fifth generation prototype (perhaps the size of a coffee table) hovers using to the blown wing principle, and the sixth, due to fly in a few months, will introduce the transitioning flaps. (I Heart Aerospace raises $35M Series A, lands order with United and Mesa Airlines for 200 aircraft.

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CTOvision

JULY 13, 2015

The Bureau of Consular Affairs Consular Consolidated Database (CCD) is a system critical to the nation. The reviews of data associated with the over 50,000 visa applications a day is in many ways the first line of defense for the nation. Imagine if the system of systems supporting the Bureau's missions were to have outages.

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CIO

DECEMBER 10, 2024

What success looks like can vary widely and range from reducing a call centers escalation rates, a food distributors sales order processing time, or a professional services companys new employee onboarding time, to an airline that personalizes customer communications or a media company that provides real-time language translation.

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Altexsoft

MARCH 6, 2019

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.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

AI is also being employed in fraud detection, analyzing transaction patterns, and flagging suspicious activity in real-time, far faster and more accurately than manual systems. This ensures that ethical considerations are woven into the fabric of AI systems from the ground up, rather than being an afterthought,” says Ameen.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Events — when they haven’t been cancelled altogether in the last 12 months due to the global health pandemic — have gone virtual and online, and a wave of startups that are helping people create and participate in those experiences are seeing a surge of attention — and funding.

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CIO

AUGUST 6, 2024

As organizations increasingly rely on cloud-based services and cybersecurity solutions to protect their digital assets, the incident serves as a stark reminder of the vulnerabilities inherent in even the most robust systems. CIOs should plan accordingly by assessing business impacts, focusing on the most critical systems.

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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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CIO

OCTOBER 13, 2022

United Airlines took to the cloud to modernize its Revenue Management system to reduce costs, but also to land on a platform that didn’t limit its ability to apply modern revenue management processes. United’s Revenue Management Modernization Takes Flight. Next stop: Migrating a complex forecasting module planned for later in 2022.

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CIO

JULY 23, 2024

Cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike initiated a series of computer system outages across the world on Friday, July 19, disrupting nearly every industry and sowing chaos at airports, financial institutions, and healthcare systems, among others. Businesses across the globe followed suit, as their days began.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 1, 2022

After lots of back and forth, the JetBlue-Spirit Airlines deal actually happened. The respective boards at JetBlue Airways and Spirit Airlines approved a merger agreement at a diluted equity valuation of $3.8 But if it closes, it will create the fifth-largest airline in the United States. — Rebecca Bellan. The culprit?

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Altexsoft

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Its main goal is to regulate distribution-related activities in airlines and commercial aviation such as fare calculations, revenue allocation, and baggage rules. Why do travel businesses that issue airline tickets have to be IATA-accredited? These codes are relevant even to those airlines that haven’t signed an agreement with IATA.

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OverOps

MARCH 26, 2019

The most obvious contributing factor in this are those massive application failures that become public relations fiascos for companies like Wells Fargo, United Airlines and their friends. We have our review flows, QA and automated testing suites… Those errors just keep getting through. Easier said than done.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

MAY 16, 2018

Airlines run on their IT systems and CIOs have to keep these running. However, when it comes to airlines, their CIOs are spending their time thinking about more practical things like just exactly how to go about keeping their critical IT systems up and running. The Challenge Of Running An Airline.

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Altexsoft

JUNE 21, 2019

Being big complex systems, with tons of connectivity channels, providers, travelers and many solutions that have to be heavily managed, OTAs have a lot happening on the administrative side. The provider must issue a ticket (in case of airlines) or send a booking confirmation (hotels). is carefully documented in a CRM system.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Organizations all around the globe are implementing AI in a variety of ways to streamline processes, optimize costs, prevent human error, assist customers, manage IT systems, and alleviate repetitive tasks, among other uses. And with the rise of generative AI, artificial intelligence use cases in the enterprise will only expand.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

Image Credits: Brex Brex opted not to accept commissions from airlines or hotels that would not provide more expensive flights or hotels as alternatives, Dubugras said. But we think that just reduces trust in the system. Some companies get paid to not show those because they know corporate buyers are less price sensitive,” he added.

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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. It’s still hard for small online travel agencies and other travel distribution businesses to enter the market, due to such giants as Expedia and Booking Holdings owning most of the market.

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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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CIO

JUNE 29, 2022

Using RPA tools, a company can configure software, or a “robot,” to capture and interpret applications for processing a transaction, manipulating data, triggering responses, and communicating with other digital systems. Bots are typically low-cost and easy to implement, requiring no custom software or deep systems integration.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Portcast , which describes itself as a “next-generation logistics operating system,” makes the process more efficient by gathering data from myriad sources and not only track shipments in real-time, but also predicts what might affect its progress, like major weather events, the tide and pandemic-related issues.

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CTOvision

JUNE 23, 2015

The aviation industry was the center of media attention when Chris Roberts, a controversial computer researcher, was detained by FBI agents after boasting that he had hacked systems while a passenger and took control of key aircraft systems. The threat level is increased when systems are not secured prior to installation.

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The Hustle

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

United Airlines lets PreCheck travelers use their faces to check bags at select airports. American Airlines flyers can get into the airline’s Dallas airport lounge with just their faces. Beijing Capital International Airport lets travelers use their faces at every step of their trip, including checking out at duty-free stores.

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