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Joby Aviation partners with Japanese airline to launch air taxi service

TechCrunch

Joby Aviation is partnering with Japanese airline ANA to bring aerial ridesharing services to Japan. The auto giant led Joby’s $590 million Series C round in 2020 and has shared expertise with the startup on electrification technology, as well as manufacturing, quality and cost controls, according to a Joby spokesperson.

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Taiwanese startup WritePath’s AI tech speeds up financial disclosure translation

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WritePath make the process faster and scalable by combining its AI tech with human translators. The Taipei-based startup’s clients include Foxconn, ASUS, China Airline, the Taiwan Stock Exchange and Taiwan Mobile. The company’s platform combines tech like Warren, its in-house machine translation engine, with human translators.

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Fetcherr raises $12.5M to dynamically price airfare with algorithms

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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a severe underinvestment in tech within the airline industry, with airlines continuing to rely on legacy systems and outdated infrastructures that date back decades.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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Lufthansa’s digital future takes flight with ‘Digital Hangar’

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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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Revenue Integrity in Airlines: How to Solve Revenue Leakage Problems

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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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8 big IT failures of 2023

CIO

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

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Father and son duo take on global logistics with Optimal Dynamics’ sequential decision AI platform

TechCrunch

A classic problem is how to optimize an airline’s schedule to maximize profit. Airlines need to commit to schedules months in advance without knowing what the weather will be like or what the specific demand for a route will be (or, whether a pandemic will wipe out travel demand entirely).