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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. The startup estimates that a trip from Kansai International Airport to Osaka train station could take less than 15 minutes in one of its vehicles, rather than an hour by car.

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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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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have a relatively straightforward goal — getting people in seats — but they’ve traditionally relied on inefficient and outdated statistical modeling methods to predict what prices and other conditions will sell tickets.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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8 big IT failures of 2023

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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from wonky software upgrades, and Southwest ended the previous year with a Christmas travel meltdown blamed on outdated systems. Probably the worst IT airline disaster of 2023 came on the government side, however.

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Joby Aviation secures certificate to operate commercial air taxis

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And in March, Joby said it would work with CAE, an aviation trainer, to develop and qualify flight simulation training devices so commercially rated pilots can train to fly eVTOLs. Joby wouldn’t say, but most of its public testing is happening in California. ” Joby Aviation eVTOL aircraft prototype. .

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Using Cloudera Machine Learning to Build a Predictive Maintenance Model for Jet Engines

Cloudera

Running a large commercial airline requires the complex management of critical components, including fuel futures contracts, aircraft maintenance and customer expectations. Airlines, in just the U.S. Airlines typically operate on very thin margins, and any schedule delay immediately angers or frustrates customers. Introduction.

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Space Perspective raises $40M Series A for stratospheric balloon rides

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There are other perks to not going quite so high: From the description, it sounds like the Space Perspective balloon ride will look and feel more like a first-class commercial flight with any major airline today, rather than an astronaut launch. Customers will apparently have access to Wi-Fi and even a bar.

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