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Joby Aviation partners with Japanese airline to launch air taxi service

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Joby Aviation is partnering with Japanese airline ANA to bring aerial ridesharing services to Japan. The startup estimates that a trip from Kansai International Airport to Osaka train station could take less than 15 minutes in one of its vehicles, rather than an hour by car.

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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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WestCap and Peter Thiel-backed FLYR Labs closes $150M Series C

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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have a relatively straightforward goal — getting people in seats — but they’ve traditionally relied on inefficient and outdated statistical modeling methods to predict what prices and other conditions will sell tickets.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. Image Credits: FLYR Labs (opens in a new window).

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8 big IT failures of 2023

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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from wonky software upgrades, and Southwest ended the previous year with a Christmas travel meltdown blamed on outdated systems.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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Joby Aviation secures certificate to operate commercial air taxis

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And in March, Joby said it would work with CAE, an aviation trainer, to develop and qualify flight simulation training devices so commercially rated pilots can train to fly eVTOLs. Joby wouldn’t say, but most of its public testing is happening in California. ” Joby Aviation eVTOL aircraft prototype. .

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Space Perspective raises $40M Series A for stratospheric balloon rides

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Instead of going to space on a rocket, which are prohibitively expensive to develop and may not appeal to all customers, the startup plans to offer rides to the stratosphere using a capsule attached to a large balloon. The next series of test flights will also be uncrewed, followed by the first piloted test flight in 2023.

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Autonomous flight startup Merlin Labs nabs $105M and US Air Force partnership

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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. billion valuation to fuel development of its military autonomous flying systems.