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American Airlines to buy 20 jets from Boom Supersonic

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American Airlines will buy up to 20 jets from Boom Supersonic, an aircraft maker that aims to commercialize supersonic, and super-fast, flight. Boom’s Overture jets, which can carry 65 to 80 passengers, are expected to start coming off Boom’s Greensboro, North Carolina, production line in 2025, followed by test flights in 2026.

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Joby Aviation partners with Japanese airline to launch air taxi service

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Joby Aviation is partnering with Japanese airline ANA to bring aerial ridesharing services to Japan. This allows the company to start conformity testing and enter the “implementation phase” in the U.S., which basically means Joby got the OK to design and manufacture composite parts for its aircraft.

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

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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. This flight will be followed by more test flights as they explore the limits of the aircraft and how it performs under a variety of conditions.

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

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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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