CIO

JANUARY 25, 2023

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.” In that model, no one was looking out for the end user.

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CIO

APRIL 19, 2024

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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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Like a museum, but on the blockchain : Despite his usual misgivings for crypto tech, we spot Haje covering a rare blockchain story, about Arkive, and its building of the world’s first decentralized museum. Resourceful Humans: On TechCrunch+, Kyle reports that investors remain bullish on HR tech as the Great Resignation slows.

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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a severe underinvestment in tech within the airline industry, with airlines continuing to rely on legacy systems and outdated infrastructures that date back decades. Powered by the algorithm, the Fetcherr platform essentially simulates flights and seats being sold by a given carrier.

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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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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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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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The Daily WTF

DECEMBER 31, 2024

We all know the story: many legacy systems were storing dates with two digits- 80 not 1980 , and thus were going to fail dramatically when handling 00 - is that 1900 or 2000 ? The economy was up, lifted in part by a tech bubble which had yet to pop. So I want to discuss the kinds of systems that were impacted and why.

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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

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

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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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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CIO

DECEMBER 26, 2023

We’ve gathered eight instances of big tech failures that struck companies and other organizations in 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.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

“Our tech is a combination of both existing and novel tech,” he said. 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

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CTOvision

JULY 13, 2015

Federal technology news and analysis over the last month has been dominated by the OPM cybersecurity failures, and with good cause. The Bureau of Consular Affairs Consular Consolidated Database (CCD) is a system critical to the nation. Imagine if the system of systems supporting the Bureau's missions were to have outages.

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CIO

OCTOBER 13, 2022

A general modernization path brings the technical assets together whereas an industry-focused initiative is more of a problem-solving, solutions-oriented design,” says Praveena Varadarajan, modernization offering leader and strategist for IBM’s Hybrid Cloud Migration Group. “A AWS/IBM’s Industry Edge.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

After such a fractured experience, you begin asking harder questions like what biases might be embedded in this technology, how is it processing my data, how often is it audited to ensure fairness and transparency, and can it actually be taught to behave ethically. Security — ensure that models do not produce unintended outcomes.

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The Hustle

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

While the TSA has used facial recognition tech since 2019, the “tipping point” for air travel biometrics could come in 2024, per The New York Times. United Airlines lets PreCheck travelers use their faces to check bags at select airports. United Airlines lets PreCheck travelers use their faces to check bags at select airports.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 1, 2022

We love to see tech helping bikers stay safe. 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 — Rebecca Bellan. A little bird. and one in Serbia. Deal of the week.

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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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CIO

JUNE 29, 2022

Robotic process automation (RPA) is an application of technology, governed by business logic and structured inputs, aimed at automating business processes. RPA scenarios range from generating an automatic response to an email to deploying thousands of bots, each programmed to automate jobs in an ERP system. billion in 2021 to $6.5

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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

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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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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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 3, 2024

It’s not the technologies they use. In some ways, industry experts now realize the broader need for the processing power of IBM Mainframe and Power Systems, and AI helps to maintain relevancy.” It’s not the cloud provider they use. Industries have relied on the mainframe for advanced processing needs for decades,” Brouhard says. “In

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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 21, 2019

When Booking.coms and Expedias have begun cutting off chunks of sales from hotels, tour operators, and brick and mortar agencies, it became clear – tourists of today are eager to be technology-first. And to support them in that, OTAs have to step up their technology game as well. is carefully documented in a CRM system.

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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 increase of technology does not match the increase in technology security.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Here, information is gathered from clients and other key stakeholders about the functional, system, or technical specifications to be used in a project. Performance, systems, and user acceptance testing is then done to ensure the product meets the identified requirements. Later in the process testing is performed.

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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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CTOvision

JULY 13, 2015

WT Contractor Confidence Index takes a dip Washington Technology (Today) - Lower scores on several key questions have pushed the Washington Technology Contractor Confidence Index down slightly in its first follow up since the launch in March with the index number. We should all continue to track and learn from.

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taos

OCTOBER 9, 2019

First Published: October 25, 2013, By Ross Oliver, Taos Technical Consultant I read a lot of books. But very few are what would be considered “high tech” topics. I read a lot of history, history of technology, medicine, aviation, economics, and psychology.

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Capgemini

MARCH 22, 2021

The world of technology has finally caught up to the promise of the Equipment-as-a-Service model. EaaS is a system by which OEMs or service providers assume maintenance and management responsibility for large equipment, freeing companies to concentrate on business priorities and not spare parts and service schedules.

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Altexsoft

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

A host travel agency is an accelerator,” — explains the idea Ernesto Sigg Rodríguez, Chief Commercial Officer at Fitbooktravel , that provides technology consulting services for online travel businesses. “As The Airlines Reporting Corporation or ARC works only with US travel agents. Technology solutions. ARC Agency Code Number.

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Altexsoft

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Global Distribution Systems are responsible for providing booking websites with unified access to a massive inventory of flights, hotel rooms, car rental companies, cruises, and much more. A Global Distribution System , or GDS , is a computer network operating as a middleman between travel agents and numerous travel service providers.

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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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