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American Airlines suing The Points Guy over app that syncs frequent flyer data

The Verge

American Airlines is suing The Points Guy | Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images. It’s seeking an order blocking The Points Guy from accessing or using American Airlines customer data and from allowing its users to access their own accounts through the TPG app or site.

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Employee Vaccination Mandates: Indecision Is The Riskiest Decision Of All

Forrester IT

United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby is on a media tour extolling the success of its mandatory vaccination policy, which in just seven weeks has resulted in vaccination of 99.7% United’s approach is decisive and firm and brings the airline […]. of its 67,000 US employees.

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What Can A CIO Do About The Problem Of Airline Overbooking?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Times have been tough for United airlines in the past. There was that event where a passenger was removed from a flight forcibly and everyone filmed it and put it on social media. 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.

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Boeing 737 Crashes Vertically Into Mountain in China With 132 on Board

Gizmodo

A Boeing 737-800 operated by China Eastern Airlines with over 130 people on board crashed into a mountain on Monday, according to Chinese state media outlet CGTN. There’s no word on casualties yet but horrifying video obtained by the Associated Press shows a plane going down vertically into the mountain. Read more.

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Correlation between a Gaming Attack and Aircraft Bomb Scare

CTOvision

Attacks made on Sony’s PlayStation Network coincided with a bomb scare on an American Airlines jet carrying John Smedley, the president of Sony Online Entertainment. Cyber Security Social Media Bomb threat John Smedley PlayStation Network Sony Twitter' By Katie Kennedy.

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Inside the world of aviation, space and defense news with the team behind Hype Aviation

GeekWire

And I got so charged up by that, I saw that social media was taking off, and I needed to come up with a brand for myself. So it’s a combination of RSS feeds that we follow off of Twitter or social media feeds in general that we follow, all kinds of websites that we scrape in certain intervals to just discover new articles.

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Why 5G is threatening to cause flight delays

Vox

Wireless carriers have promised that 5G technology won’t just have higher speeds but also lower latency , which will make activities like streaming media and video calls achievable without any lag. To give the airlines more time to address this concern, Verizon and AT&T have delayed their C-band rollout twice.