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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

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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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Cathay Pacific to take cloud journey to new heights

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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. Delivering a zero-trust security posture is an integral part of a SASE architecture and integral to emerging SASE offerings.”

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10 emerging innovations that could redefine IT

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Once wild and seemingly impossible notions such as large language models, machine learning, and natural language processing have gone from the labs to the front lines. A number of high-profile software failures at companies like Southwest Airlines or EasyJet show how code that runs well most of the time can also fail spectacularly.

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4 ways Swedish CIOs strengthen defenses against bombarding AI sales

CIO

“Many handle the word a bit carelessly,” says Charlotte Svensson, CIO at SAS, the Scandinavian airline. It can be about anything from classic data analysis and advanced data analysis, to robotics or machine learning. SAS works a lot with AI already, though, with more traditional machine learning and evolving generative AI tools.

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Price Forecasting: Applying Machine Learning Approaches to Electricity, Flights, Hotels, Real Estate, and Stock Pricing

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Predictive analytics requires numerous statistical techniques, such as data mining (identification of patterns in data) and machine learning. The goal of machine learning is to build systems capable of finding patterns in data, learning from it without human intervention and explicit reprogramming.

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Flight Price Predictor: Training Models to Pinpoint the Best Time for Booking

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Pricing in the airline industry is often compared to a brain game between carriers and passengers where each party pursues the best rates. How dynamic pricing in the airline industry works. Airlines employ the technology to forecast rates of competitors and adjust their pricing strategies accordingly. Internal factors include.

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Soaring customer-service expectations are driving the need for servitization

Capgemini

While cargo aviation was soaring, airlines cut capacity on the passenger side. As travel begins to rebound and airlines work to re-build capacity, there is an opportunity to disrupt traditional business models and drive transformation efforts. Worldwide air travel decreased 43.5 Servitization models rely on data to succeed.