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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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American Airlines takes flight with analytics transformation

CIO

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, airlines have struggled with bad weather, fewer air traffic controllers, and a shortage of pilots, all leading to an unprecedented number of cancelations in 2022. This was a huge change for our teams. Leibman notes that American Airlines operates every hour of every day.

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Ditto raises $45M to help companies keep their data in sync

TechCrunch

Ditto provides a distributed database that runs “practically anywhere,” according to Fish and Alexander, enabling data distribution even in areas with limited or poor internet connectivity. Developers can use it to subscribe to data that they need or want to see. billion by 2026, according to Technavio.

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Revenue Integrity in Airlines: How to Solve Revenue Leakage Problems

Altexsoft

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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10 emerging innovations that could redefine IT

CIO

The main constituency: Any developer who will happily trade a bit of precision for a big savings in electricity. Other leaders have strong personal opinions about the best way to run a team. The IT teams must find the best way to support the larger mission with better tools and practices.

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Choosing between Native and Cross-Platform Mobile App Development

Sunflower Lab

The mobile application development industry is very vast, more than 90 thousand apps are launched each year and the probability for an app to get famous is one out of hundred. There are many factors like the cost of development, time, etc. There are many factors like the cost of development, time, etc.

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Dynamic Pricing Strategy for Airlines: Exploring Current Problems and Adopting Continuous Pricing

Altexsoft

In the 1980s, American Airlines and its former president Robert Crandall started a revolution in airline pricing. Crandall is famous for many airline innovations that we use today, such as inventing the first frequent flier program and contributing to route optimization and central reservation system adoption.