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Not only have the ways in which these companies successfully operate altered customer expectations, they have also forced airlines to think and act differently. Airlines are after personalization, ease of use, and innovation. It could be about implementing a new revenue-management system that helps airlines better forecast and optimize revenue. — Perficient published a new guide that focuses on the airline industry – the companies that operate air transport networks. MORE
The Global Connected Aircraft Summit (7-9 June 2017) provides airlines, operators, integrators, and technology vendors with a venue for advancing the state of the entire aviation community. Bob Gourley. This fourth annual event connects business, technology, and industry perspectives and goes beyond just in-flight entertainment, to include operations, communications and technologies that impacts the aircraft and the traveling public. MORE
Just like Americas aging physical infrastructure, the airlines are suffering from years of minimal investment in their information technology. ExpressJet, March 20, 2017 - A system-wide outage at ExpressJet delayed flights it operates as Delta, United, and American Airlines for hours. MORE
IT infrastructure problems disrupt United travel for second time in about one month Read More. Downtime Networking MORE
Customer satisfaction is always top of mind for airlines. Self-service has been top-of-mind for airlines since the introduction of airport kiosks that enable passengers to check-in, upgrade their seats, and even make flight changes. Became the first airline to give customers access to flight information and other amenities skills for Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and the Fitbit Ionic smartwatch. Download the 2018 State of the Airline Industry guide. MORE
Dutch airline KLM develops virtual reality simulation to show engineers what happens if the maintenance hanger catches fire MORE
Operational performance (or operational reliability) is about running an airline like a well-oiled machine. A smoothly run airline enhances customer perception, satisfaction, and loyalty. Tim Porter, a director and airline expert at Perficient, said, “Operational performance is a big deal to airlines. Airlines have invested billions to improve recovery from irregular operations. Delta Airlines believes operational reliability is one of its strategic advantages. MORE
Combining airlines can teach CIO some lessons Image Credit: Luke Ma. Just imagine if you were handed the additional responsibility of creating a plan to merge the IT operations of two large airlines. In late 2013 American Airlines announced that it was buying US Airways. MORE
In an age of computers and robots, the only jobs that are likely to remain are those involving human interaction MORE
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"We do have a back-up system, but on this occasion it failed" Read More. Business Power and Cooling Uptime MORE
Fuel costs – the number-one non-labor expense for airlines – can only be hedged to the degree the petroleum market allows and that is by and large outside the control of airlines. When speaking about airports, Steve Priest, JetBlue’s CFO, said the airline has “now deployed self-tagging technology in 12 lobbies.” While new investments in technology and cost-cutting programs remain important initiatives for airlines, other factors, like tax reform, can spur growth, too. MORE
The traveling public should pay attention to this one. Is this a violation of your privacy? Not in any legal sense, you are pretty much in a public place when on commercial air. But still it could be so creepy and such a violation of what we believe should be a private time that it […]. CTO Cyber Security News MORE
The airline industry is scrutinized by passengers and analysts alike, mostly for two reasons. In 2015, the world’s airlines carried more than three billion passengers, and today aviation and related tourism supports more than 60 million jobs worldwide. manufacturers of commercial jetliners) can be considered part of the aviation sector, our new guide focuses on the airline industry – the companies that operate air transport networks. MORE
Airlines are focused less on market share and more on their overall profitability. — Perficient published a new guide that focuses on the airline industry – the companies that operate air transport networks. Specifically, it discusses some of the initiatives on which airlines are focusing in the hopes of driving growth and value for their businesses, as well as their customers, employees, partners, and shareholders. Download the 2018 State of the Airline Industry guide. MORE
Airline completes major project to revamp its storage infrastructure with Dell EMC technologies MORE
For more on the outage see: All United Airlines flights in US grounded due to computer system glitch . The post All United Airlines flights in US grounded: Computer “glitch” cited as cause appeared first on CTOvision.com. The entire U.S. travel system is under strain today causing a major disruption to business and pleasure travel on all carriers do to what United is calling a computer systems "glitch". What is a glitch? We have all seen those before. MORE
carrier, Delta airlines, suffered a major melt down when their headquarters experienced a power outage. A critical power control module at the airline’s technology command center malfunctioned, causing a surge to the transformer and a loss of power. MORE
Airline’s business-to-business and cargo divisions have found Salesforce CRM to offer a “family feel” beyond the software MORE
Passengers complain of queues, delays and flight cancellations after airline's check-in systems suffer temporary outage MORE
Bahraini airline Gulf Air is looking to make productivity gains across its enterprise resource planning system MORE
Two high-profile airline technology meltdowns stranding thousands of travelers in the recent weeks have prompted two US senators to push carriers to bolster their technology. this week sent a letter to the most recent offenders -- Delta and Southwest -- as well as 11 other airlines to get a better handle on whether or not their information technology systems are reliable and resilient. MORE
Pilot Big Data analytics platform analyzes engine data from 15,000 flights. Read More. Big Data Enterprise Internet of Things MORE
Times have been tough for United airlines in the past. A bit before that the airline had had to delay 500 of their flights because of a second glitch in two weeks of the computer systems that run the airline. United airlines has been dealing with some bad press as of late. MORE
Airlines in the Middle East are investing heavily in IT as the industry faces increasing demand for more efficient services MORE
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. MORE
With multiple systems providers, airlines and IFC providers managing various components of an airplane, gaps are becoming more frequent in the aviation landscape. Airline to Award Hackers for Finding Hidden Bugs (chinatopix.com). CTO Strategy Aircraft engine Airline Computer security Cyber Threats Hacker (computer security) United AirlinesWith the public inundated with reports of an alarming number of computer hacks, the question in everyone’s mind is “what is next?” MORE
Following an emergency decision to move to Amazon Web Services, Iceland’s Wow Air has wholeheartedly bought into the cloud MORE
Each major US carrier sustained disruptions during the last year due to outdated information systems Read More. Disaster Recovery Downtime Enterprise Infrastructure Power MORE
Both airlines’ outages were massive, requiring days to fully recover. Because airlines are highly dependent on IT, both companies undoubtedly had a disaster recovery plan (DRP) and a business continuity plan (BCP.) Delta’s and Southwest’s planes are flying again, but the system outages both suffered last summer were painful for them. What can your company learn from their unfortunate experiences? Both had to cancel thousands of flights and lost millions of dollars in revenue. MORE
S7 Airlines in Russia looks set to move more of its IT to the cloud after successful infrastructure-as-a-service project MORE
IT supplier Lufthansa Systems is changing its business model as its airline customers invest in digital technologies MORE
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Not only have the ways in which these companies successfully operate altered customer expectations, they have also forced airlines to think and act differently. Airlines are after personalization, ease of use, and innovation. It could be about implementing a new revenue-management system that helps airlines better forecast and optimize revenue. — Perficient published a new guide that focuses on the airline industry – the companies that operate air transport networks.
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