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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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Expat CIOs: IT leaders broaden horizons with global experiences

CIO

For others such as Brian Ferris, chief data, analytics, and technology officer at loyalty, marketing, and data analytics consulting firm Loyalty NZ, leading IT abroad was about “gaining huge value in seeing different issues and learning different ways of approaching problems, something that can’t be learnt out of a book.”

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Tour Operator Software: Itinerary Creator, Booking Engine, and Other Handy Technologies

Altexsoft

For the record, the business developed into a global company operating its airline and dealing with multi-million revenue streams, went through a compulsory liquidation in 2019, and was relaunched as an online-only travel agency in 2020. Before diving in, watch how tours and attractions market works.

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Building a Better Middleman

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Some stock exchanges designate market makers (“specialists,” if you’re old-school) , firms that are always ready to both buy and sell shares of a given stock. If I want to offload a thousand shares and there’s no one who wants to buy them from me, the market maker steps in to play the role of the buyer.

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Dynamic Pricing Explained: Use in Revenue Management and Pricing Optimization

Altexsoft

How would you price tickets not only to cover expenses for each route but also to achieve a certain level of revenue to be able to grow and develop your business? The reality is that you’ll need a more sophisticated pricing strategy to fit into today’s highly competitive market and be flexible enough to adjust to any changes.

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Friction

LeanEssays

In January 2015, four years after launch, Uber reported that its revenue its home city of San Francisco had grown to three times the size of the entire taxi market in that city. One third of the fuel that goes into a car is spent overcoming friction. By comparison, an electric car loses half as much energy - one sixth - to friction.

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Airline Reservation Systems and Passenger Service Systems: Navitaire, Amadeus Altea, SabreSonic and more

Altexsoft

And that episode was not a one-off. It was just another reminder of overall aviation IT fragility, caused by different factors, from aging technologies to poor communication between different components to the introduction of immature solutions. Something that happens quite often nowadays.