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Mapping the progress of Air New Zealand’s digital rebuild

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As a household name in international air carriers, Air New Zealand is used to punching above its weight, mainly due to being so remotely based; if you draw 1,200-mile line from Auckland, you don’t even get to the east coast of Australia. This is a chance to start practicing what an airline of the future could look like.

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Biometric tech is taking off in airports

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While the TSA has used facial recognition tech since 2019, the “tipping point” for air travel biometrics could come in 2024, per The New York Times. Experimental programs are already underway in airports around the country: Delta Digital ID allows PreCheck members to scan their faces instead of boarding passes and IDs at five US airports.

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Lufthansa’s digital future takes flight with ‘Digital Hangar’

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Each Hangar houses agile coaches, business analysts, data and analytics specialists, product owners, Scrum masters, software engineers, and user interface designers — all with one mission: to elevate the airlines’ digital customer experience before, during, and after the flight. Experience is not only the cherry on the cake.”

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8 big IT failures of 2023

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We’ve gathered eight instances of big tech failures that struck companies and other organizations in 2023. Both United Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines saw service outages in 2023 resulting from wonky software upgrades, and Southwest ended the previous year with a Christmas travel meltdown blamed on outdated systems.

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Averting turbulence in the air

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The diversification of payment methods and gradual increase in the volume of online transactions have cast a spotlight on the need for payment security compliance within the airline industry. Understanding the business of the airline industry As previously mentioned, the revenue streams are becoming diversified in the airline sector.

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IBM and AWS Create a Path to Modernization Via Industry-Specific Solutions

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A general modernization path brings the technical assets together whereas an industry-focused initiative is more of a problem-solving, solutions-oriented design,” says Praveena Varadarajan, modernization offering leader and strategist for IBM’s Hybrid Cloud Migration Group. “A AWS/IBM’s Industry Edge.

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Daily Crunch: Russia fines Google $374M for ‘illegal content’ over its Ukraine invasion

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In particular, the partnership with Visa landed Bloom as the first Sudanese startup to get admitted into Visa’s Fintech Fast Track program, Tage reports. Jacquelyn reports that Tribe Capital raised $25 million to launch a crypto incubator program. TechCrunch+ is our membership program, which helps founders and startup teams get ahead.

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