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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

CIO

The last thing any CIO wants is to experience catastrophic operational issues during a peak season, but that’s exactly what executives at Southwest Airlines faced last week. 19-28 far exceeded any other airlines’ operational impacts. Even before the blizzard hit, Southwest Airlines CEO Bob Jordan acknowledged on Nov.

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Architecture Modernization Enabling Teams (AMET)

Strategic Tech

FThis article describes a pattern we have observed and applied in multi-team-scope architecture modernization initiatives, the Architecture Modernization Enabling Team (AMET). An AMET is a type of architecture enabling team that coordinates and upskills all teams and stakeholders in the modernization initiative.

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Brex takes a swipe at Concur with an expansion into travel

TechCrunch

Part of the aim of the new offering is to apply to travel expenses the budgeting capabilities that Empower has, Dubugras said. 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.

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New Distribution Capability (NDC) for Airlines: Key Providers and Implementation Scenarios

Altexsoft

Today, airlines still use third parties for their flight distribution. Although some airlines strive to inspire loyalty in their customers and encourage them to buy tickets directly from their sites, it can hardly be a working scheme for every airline. What NDC is and how airlines can benefit from adopting it.

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Crew management in airlines: planning and scheduling with Sabre, Jeppesen, and others

Altexsoft

On par with fuel, crew related costs are the major operating expense for airlines. European airlines usually let personnel request for destinations, day-offs, reserve periods, trip lengths and other elements to create individual rosters. Source: Team-Oriented Airline Crew Rostering. Components of the crew scheduling problem.

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Airline Reservation Systems and Passenger Service Systems: Navitaire, Amadeus Altea, SabreSonic and more

Altexsoft

In this article, we’ll discuss airline software suites, their major modules, and available modern solutions, created to change the current state of things for the better. Its mission is to keep operations running smoothly, and failures in its work can cost airlines tens of millions of dollars in lost revenue.

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Expat CIOs: IT leaders broaden horizons with global experiences

CIO

He experienced a high propensity for bespoke developments outside Australia. “While other global airlines used Amadeus or Sabre, Emirates had built its own ticketing and reservation system. I am not the expert in cyber, architecture, cloud, project delivery, or data, nor should I be.