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Microsoft’s climate fund backs sustainable jet fuel company Dimensional Energy

TechCrunch

The increasing need to reduce carbon emissions drives many industries, including airlines and transportation, to seek sustainable alternatives to meet emission reduction targets and fulfill corporate social responsibility commitments.

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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. Leibman notes that American Airlines operates every hour of every day. American Airlines. “We Leibman, who stepped down on Sept.

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Mapping the progress of Air New Zealand’s digital rebuild

CIO

As lean as things got, that time afforded the opportunity to rebuild by flipping the script: Air New Zealand was going to become a digital company that happened to be an airline, rather than an airline with a digital department. A key element of that is to be a company dedicated to sustainability in deed, not only word.

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Cathay Pacific to take cloud journey to new heights

CIO

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. Cathay is also an early innovator in making use of blockchain’s digital ledger technology.

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Sustainable Travel: Opportunities Digital Technology Provides for a Greener Business

Altexsoft

What is sustainable travel? Sustainable or eco-travel is a way of managing travel activities so that the natural environment is preserved and supported. Three pillars of sustainability. The concept of sustainability encompasses three interrelated categories: social, economic, and environmental.

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Crop One, Emirate open ‘world’s largest vertical farm’ in Dubai

TechCrunch

The facility got its start in 2018 when Crop One, an indoor vertical farming company, and Emirates Flight, the airline Emirates catering arm, signed a $40 million joint venture to build Emirates Crop One. AgFunder reported the $40 million was a majority debt funded. in a written statement.”

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Achieving Net Zero aviation will need rapid innovation. Digital engineering can deliver it

Capgemini

Achieving Net Zero aviation will need rapid innovation. To enable them to achieve this, aerospace manufacturers are adopting a range of approaches, including sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs), lighter airframes, optimising and automating flights, and whole new propulsion technologies based on hydrogen and batteries.

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