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Southwest Airlines: ‘Shameful’ Technical Debt Bites Back

DevOps.com

The post Southwest Airlines: ‘Shameful’ Technical Debt Bites Back appeared first on DevOps.com. Last month’s débâcle of canceled flights was caused by decades of technical debt. That’s the analysis of Columbia University professor Zeynep Tufekci.

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Eviation’s all-electric Alice aircraft makes its maiden flight

TechCrunch

For the test flight, it took off from an airport in central Washington, ascended to 3,500 feet, then landed again, for a total flight time of 8 minutes. We will review the flight data to understand how the performance of the aircraft matched our models,” Eviation CEO and President Gregory Davis told TechCrunch.

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

TechCrunch

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have a relatively straightforward goal — getting people in seats — but they’ve traditionally relied on inefficient and outdated statistical modeling methods to predict what prices and other conditions will sell tickets.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. — the model will get smarter over time, FLYR says.

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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. This is helpful in an era in which airliners are having difficulty finding pilots to hire.

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Private cloud makes its comeback, thanks to AI

CIO

As we are testing and dipping our toes in the water with AI, we are choosing to keep that as private as possible,” he says, noting that the public cloud has the horsepower needed for many LLMs of today but his company has the option of adding GPUs if needed via its privately owned Dell equipment.

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CIOs Struggle To Keep Their Airlines In The Air

The Accidental Successful CIO

Airlines run on their IT systems and CIOs have to keep these running. However, when it comes to airlines, their CIOs are spending their time thinking about more practical things like just exactly how to go about keeping their critical IT systems up and running. The Challenge Of Running An Airline. Image Credit: Job Garcia.

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Joby Aviation acquires Avionyx to accelerate aerospace software certification

TechCrunch

Software verification is critical to meeting FAA regulations and standards because it allows engineers to review, analyze and test the software deployed across the aircraft, according to Joby. Joby Aviation partners with Japanese airline to launch air taxi service.