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

IT infrastructure problems disrupt United travel for second time in about one month Read More. Downtime Networking MORE

US airline Delta has temporarily grounded flights worldwide after a power failure took key IT systems offline in its home base of Atlanta, Georgia MORE

Dutch airline KLM develops virtual reality simulation to show engineers what happens if the maintenance hanger catches fire MORE

Open source business intelligence tool enables airline to gain new insights from a decade’s worth of ticket sales MORE

Airline is the latest Southeast Asian organisation to harness cloud-based software to improve customer services, deploying the Oracle Service Cloud 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

american airlines. Analytics Application Development Prescriptive Analytics american airlinesPrescriptive analytics is about using data and analytics to improve decisions and therefore the effectiveness of actions. Isn't that what all analytics should be about? MORE

It might take the airline a few quarters to recover fully. BA execs will get to the root-cause analysis soon, but the event (and historical failures at airlines in general) provides a bonanza of lessons for execs everywhere who want to better equip their organizations to handle such exigencies. MORE

Airline attributes outage to power problem in Atlanta data center Read More. Atlanta Downtime Enterprise Power MORE

"We do have a back-up system, but on this occasion it failed" Read More. Business Power and Cooling Uptime MORE

The Global Connected Aircraft Summit , taking place June 6 - 8, 2016 in Los Angeles, CA, promises to deliver even more airline executives, thought-provoking case studies and valuable networking opportunities in 2016 than ever before. Bob Gourley. MORE

The mission of this summit is to provide airlines, operators, integrators and technology vendors with a means to continuously enhance the benefits of connected solutions, from ground to air and from nose to tail. Bob Gourley. MORE

Airline attributes electronic system downtime to data center power outage Read More. Downtime Verizon MORE

The UK government has announced that laptops and tablets will be banned from airliner cabins on UK-bound flights from a number of Middle Eastern countries 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

Airline’s business-to-business and cargo divisions have found Salesforce CRM to offer a “family feel” beyond the software MORE

Big data engine that performs sentiment analysis on both Arabic and English textual data helps airline to understand and react rapidly to customer preferences MORE

Last week we saw two significant, public system outages, one belonging to NYSE because of a "configuration issue" and the other to United Airlines because of a "router issue". This week, the news is on OPM's data breach of 21 million users and their lack of investment and follow through on resolving security issues identified by auditors. My first thought on seeing these failures is that. cio crisis management in the news it management security MORE

The CIO of Nordic airline SAS talks to Computer Weekly about how digital technologies are changing customer experiences as well as the business itself 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

Airline CIOs are going to have to make some tough in-flight internet decisions Image Credit: Christopher Doyle. Back in the day, airline passengers could be assured that their time in the air meant that they had an excuse to unplug and step away from the constant need to do more and more work. MORE

Airlines in the Middle East are investing heavily in IT as the industry faces increasing demand for more efficient services 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

Another problem includes dealing with the airline’s mechanics who are still working under separate IT systems, which store complex data related to fixing aircraft. United Continental is not the only airline to undergo a merger in the past few years. MORE

Following an emergency decision to move to Amazon Web Services, Iceland’s Wow Air has wholeheartedly bought into the cloud MORE

Airline says investigation will focus on ensuring the IT problems of the bank holiday weekend will never be repeated 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

Brussels Airlines is transforming its IT, with customer experience the driving force MORE

IT supplier Lufthansa Systems is changing its business model as its airline customers invest in digital technologies MORE

Earn the best on-time arrival of any major airline by measuring when the airplane door closes -- and everything leading up to it. Alaska Airlines does. You can't win, serve, and retain powerful customers without being insights-driven. MORE

For instance, the mainframe is leveraged by 92 of the top 100 banks worldwide, 23 of the top 25 US retailers, all 10 of the world's 10 largest insurers, and 23 of the world's 25 largest airlines. [i]. Did someone forget to tell the mainframe it was irrelevant? For many years, the much lauded death of the mainframe has been espoused by many pundits. Many believed the end of the mainframe would be further accelerated with the rapid growth of cloud adoption. MORE