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American Airlines Adopts Public Cloud Computing

Cloud Musings

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. JetBlue, Feb. JetBlue, Feb. Lauderdale and Nassau.

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Big data and open-source cloud technology help Gulf Air pin down customer sentiment

Computer Weekly

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

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Lufthansa Systems ‘crowdfunds’ BI to mine flight data

Computer Weekly

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

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Digital identity startup Evernym sells to Avast, looks to bring trust to a decentralized internet

GeekWire

” The 30-person company has worked to create decentralized identifiers for open-source projects and efforts such as International Air Transport Association’s Travel Pass. That pass is a digital credential that allows airlines and governments to verify travel and health documents, including COVID-19 test results.

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Building an SSI Ecosystem: Health Passes and the Design of an Ecosystem of Ecosystems

Phil Windley

In fact, if we replaced "proof of vaccination" with "airline ticket" in the preceding scenario, we wouldn't think anything of it. implementation guides and open source reference implementations. SITA is a good partner for this since they're responsible for a majority of airline industry IT systems. Building the Ecosystem.

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Everything you need to know about vaccine passports

Vox

Some are already releasing vaccine passports , such as the CommonPass, an app from the World Economic Forum and the Commons Project that’s being trialed by a number of airlines. The airline doesn’t necessarily want to have your vaccination record,” explains J.P. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network.

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Ugh! There's an App for That!

Phil Windley

Delta airlines didn't accept any that I could tell. Fortunately, we have open-source technology, with multiple commercial providers , that can provide interoperable credentials. You'd think all this would have been a perfect opportunity for me to use a health pass app , but whose? Munich has its own—or three.

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