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CIOs Struggle To Keep Their Airlines In The Air

The Accidental Successful CIO

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. The Challenge Of Running An Airline. Image Credit: Job Garcia.

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Seattle-area county reveals plans for ‘world leading’ sustainable aviation fuel R&D center

GeekWire

million in the state’s transportation budget to get the project rolling. The state’s Legislature is likely to vote on the transportation budget in the next few weeks. Seattle-based Alaska Airlines announced a program in August allowing corporate customers to pay for sustainable fuel credits to reduce their carbon emissions.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

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

CIO Business Intelligence

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from wonky software upgrades, and Southwest ended the previous year with a Christmas travel meltdown blamed on outdated systems.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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Averting turbulence in the air

CIO Business Intelligence

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. Since Erin has a limited budget, one of the first things she might do is go to the internet and browse through meta-search engines looking for a deal.

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Delta takes off with modernized blend of mainframes and cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

When it comes to IT, Delta Airlines is climbing higher into the clouds even as it keeps its footing on solid ground. In partnership with AWS, the airlines started migrating many front-end applications and distributed applications that “marry” themselves well to the cloud while retaining traditional back-end workloads on the mainframe. “The

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The jobs Americans want

Vox

Real estate and electrician programs are among trending searches for job training on Google as well. The rise in interest for jobs as airline pilots and flight attendants coincides with the return to travel and a bit of chaos in the air travel industry.