TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

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have a relatively straightforward goal — getting people in seats — but they’ve traditionally relied on inefficient and outdated statistical modeling methods to predict what prices and other conditions will sell tickets.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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DevOps.com

JANUARY 5, 2023

The post Southwest Airlines: ‘Shameful’ Technical Debt Bites Back appeared first on DevOps.com. Last month’s débâcle of canceled flights was caused by decades of technical debt. That’s the analysis of Columbia University professor Zeynep Tufekci.

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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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CIO

APRIL 2, 2025

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. But, as of January 28, the companys stock price was over $400, an all-time high, helped by a perfect score on an industry test for ransomware detection.

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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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CIO

JULY 22, 2024

All patches should first be tested on a test server,” Jain said further emphasizing that despite CrowdStrike’s reputation, the incident revealed a failure of trust due to untested patches causing a cascading effect. Enhanced due diligence, rigorous testing of updates, and phased rollouts are now critical.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Like many airlines, Lufthansa Group had its business upended by the COVID-19 pandemic. By April 2020, with travel bans proliferating, the airline suffered losses of €1 million per hour. We strongly believe and focus a lot on how we can give better data to cabin crews so they can, for instance, welcome you.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

It can now be used at more than 500 merchants, including consumer electronics seller Kimstore and Philippine Airlines. At any given time we usually run a few A/B tests to test new models or process improvements.”. Credit scoring is also something we constantly tinker with,” he added. “As seed round.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Software verification is critical to meeting FAA regulations and standards because it allows engineers to review, analyze and test the software deployed across the aircraft, according to Joby. Joby Aviation partners with Japanese airline to launch air taxi service.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

In other words, Joby will start testing out the back end technology needed to operate what will be an Uber-like ride-hail service in the sky, a company spokesperson told TechCrunch. Joby would not disclose what test routes it intends to fly on, but the company is currently flying an employee shuttle between San Jose and Marina, California.

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CIO

AUGUST 27, 2024

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. For an in-depth view, see “ No, Southwest Airlines is not still using Windows 3.1 — OSnews.”) Vendors are trapped by the Red Queen. Then, meet DevOps.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

There are other perks to not going quite so high: From the description, it sounds like the Space Perspective balloon ride will look and feel more like a first-class commercial flight with any major airline today, rather than an astronaut launch. Customers will apparently have access to Wi-Fi and even a bar.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

Between the billions of dollars in capital, SPACs, and test flights, there were countless companies touting their newest developments and technological milestones bringing us one step closer to the commercialization of air taxis. The billions of dollars raised by eVTOL companies last year mean one thing for 2022 – massive growth.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

In 2020, the size of the global cargo airline industry was $110.8 While Merlin told TechCrunch at the time that it had “hundreds” of test flights under its belt, the company’s system lacked certification from the U.S. Autonomous flight is a grand challenge in aviation — and a gold mine. That changed recently.

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CIO

JULY 23, 2024

So large corporations are still being put to the test with their implementing processes. Case in point is Spanish airline Air Europa, even though their longstanding approach to data has given them a jump on applying the technology. But it’s still early days since ChatGPT burst on the scene in 2022.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

I was shown a video of the prototype doing tethered indoor hovering but the company is not releasing this test footage publicly.). Heart Aerospace raises $35M Series A, lands order with United and Mesa Airlines for 200 aircraft. So Craft is relying on partners who have looked to shake things up in aerospace.

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CIO

JANUARY 8, 2024

Instead, the publicly held operator of Cathay Pacific Airlines and HK Express is shifting from migration to optimization mode in an effort to wrest additional benefits from its all-in cloud transformation. This is helpful in an era in which airliners are having difficulty finding pilots to hire.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

The Toyota-backed company also has a partnership lined up with Delta Air Lines for airline customers traveling to and from airports. Joby occupies a 120,000-square-foot facility at Marina Municipal Airport in Marina, California, where it produces pilot prototypes and conducts testing of its aircraft.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Elroy Air has raised a $40 million Series A, including financing from Lockheed Martin’s venture capital arm, to ramp up the build, testing and validation of its inaugural autonomous cargo drone. We’re excited that the technology is ready to support this, customers want it, and we’ve built a team and assembled the funds to go after it.”.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

It’s been conducting its flight tests from a dedicated facility at the Mojave Air & Space Port. Looking to the future, George said that Merlin Labs has no intention of becoming an airline or operating planes themselves. The latest iteration, called Murray, is a few months old.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Founded by two former Google employees on the Angular team, Jeff Cross (CEO) and Victor Savkin (CTO), Narwahl actually started out as an Angular consulting shop, helping large banks, airlines and other enterprises — the kind of companies that typically use Angular.

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CIO

MAY 14, 2024

As we are testing and dipping our toes in the water with AI, we are choosing to keep that as private as possible,” he says, noting that the public cloud has the horsepower needed for many LLMs of today but his company has the option of adding GPUs if needed via its privately owned Dell equipment.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Terra Drone is working on projects with a number of Japanese companies and government such as TEPCO, Japan Airlines, KDDI, Japan’s leading telco company, Inpex, and Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. The global UAM market is projected to increase to $1.5 trillion by 2040, according to Terra’s IR deck. .

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CIO

DECEMBER 26, 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. Probably the worst IT airline disaster of 2023 came on the government side, however.

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CIO

AUGUST 26, 2024

As a leader in enterprise Customer Experience (CX) , Avaya understands that while the technical challenges were significant, the true test lies in how organizations respond to such crises. The disruption affected an estimated 8.5

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Altexsoft

APRIL 20, 2019

IATA’s recent passenger survey reports reveal interesting data about traveler’s preferences: international travel accounts for 64 percent of all airline traffic with Asia-Pacific, African, Latin American and Middle Eastern regions experience rise in demand. How does airline distribution work? How GDS distribution works. Amadeus APIs.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

Quantum Metric , which provides a cloud-based service both to build digital products and then test and fix them in real time to improve how they work, sold by the company as Continuous Digital Product Design, has picked up $200 million in funding, a Series B round that values the company at more than $1 billion.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Testing for the new connection begins early next year across 1,000 airplanes.

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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. Image Credit: Job Garcia.

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Coforge

AUGUST 1, 2024

Imagine an airline's Passenger Service System (PSS) as the beating heart of its entire operation. Just like a heart transplant, migrating to a new PSS can feel like a high-stakes surgery, especially assuring that the migrated systems will not hamper airline operations.

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A List Apart

APRIL 9, 2020

Nonetheless, voice interfaces also surface unique challenges when it comes to usability testing and robust evaluation of your end result. And finally, because there were relatively few examples of voice usability testing at the time, we knew we would have to learn on the fly and experiment to find the right solution.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

ZeroAvia is now developing and testing the certification-ready ZA-600 powertrain, which can fly a 10 to 20-seat aircraft up to 500 miles, the company said. Our most recent milestone achievements are closing the gap for the airline industry to begin its transition away from fossil fuels. Image Credit: ZeroAvia.

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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. The company says it is currently using the generative AI technology to write, test, and fix code with the aim of increasing its operational efficiency and reducing overhead.

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Cloudera

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Running a large commercial airline requires the complex management of critical components, including fuel futures contracts, aircraft maintenance and customer expectations. Airlines, in just the U.S. Airlines typically operate on very thin margins, and any schedule delay immediately angers or frustrates customers. Introduction.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

AirHelp, which helps airline passengers secure compensation for delayed, canceled, or overbooked flights, is recognized for its AI-powered chat system that appears to effectively handle common service-related inquiries. Build a humane team Many organizations think of using AI in customer support in the context of cutting costs.

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Altexsoft

OCTOBER 9, 2019

How Airline Distribution Works. However, besides the accreditation itself, you obtain a number of benefits such as best pricing rates from over 200 airlines, along with standard invoicing and payment interface between you and suppliers. They are Amadeus, Sabre, and Travelport (which combines Apollo, Galileo, and Worldspan).

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