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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. IT and infrastructure from the 1990s,” said Casey A. 30, “We’re behind.

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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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Fraport goes all in on private 5G network

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Or as Fraport SVP of IT infrastructure Fritz Oswald puts it: “We definitely see 5G as a key technology for digitalization.” The motivation to set up its own 5G infrastructure came less from the suffering of a legacy installation and more from the desire to enable new use cases during the digitization journey.

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The air taxi market prepares to take flight

TechCrunch

Twelve years ago, Joby Aviation consisted of a team of seven engineers working out of founder JoeBen Bevirt’s ranch in the Santa Cruz mountains. Partnerships with major automakers and airlines are on the rise, and CEOs have promised commercialization as early as 2024. Today, the startup has swelled to 800 people and a $6.6

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Multiplayer fintech, and the muddled world of startup data

TechCrunch

The good news is that the government is also in the dark about funding data; the bad news is that without good tracking, we don’t know how progress is being made. TechCrunch covered favorites from Techstars’ three Demo Days, which were focused on Chicago, Boston and workforce development. Image Credits: Amazon / Microsoft.

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IATA Explained: The Role of International Air Transport Association in the Aviation Industry

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IATA or the International Air Transport Association is a global trade association of airlines (both freight and passenger carriers) that regulates the aviation industry by developing standards, procedures, and practices. As of today, its members are 290 airlines in 120 countries comprising around 82 percent of total air traffic.

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Continuous delivery in DevOps – A brief inside!

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Whether it’s talking with friends on social media, ordering movie tickets on your phone, or planning a business trip using an airline app. Continuous delivery is a software development approach that accelerates the deployment of new code by automating the process. This comprises problems such as security and bad user experience.