Technology
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Are Travel Apps Dead? Free Report on the ‘Future of Apps’ (Travelport Digital Sponsored Post)
Thank you to Travelport Digital for sponsoring this post and pointing to a new report that the company has put out on…
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American Shuns Sticks, Tries Carrots to Woo Agencies Toward a Better Way of Booking
American rolled out a major new program on Friday that’s intended to encourage travel agencies/travel management companies to start booking flights differently…
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Now We Know Why Delta Has Partnered With CLEAR
More than a year ago, Delta announced it was partnering with CLEAR, the company that allows you to cut to the front…
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Can Sabre Become a Fast-Moving, Innovative Technology Company?
The air was thick with irony. At Sabre’s big Airline Technology Exchange conference in Las Vegas last week, all of Sabre’s airline…
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Delta Finds the Best Use for Gogo Internet Yet: Turbulence Avoidance
While the primary use of inflight internet has been to keep customers busy and distracted, there’s always been the potential for something…
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Cranky on the Web: How Airline Systems Work, Delta Questions, Handling Tight Connections, Cranky’s Adventure
How do airline computer systems work? – CNN Money I am no expert on IT, but CNN still wanted to get a…
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3 Links I Love: Why Southwest Says Its IT Failed, Calls for Southwest CEO’s Head, Talking Alaska-Virgin America
This week’s featured link: Southwest CEO: Router failure that grounded flights equated to ‘once-in-a-thousand-year flood’ – Dallas Morning News Something tells me…
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Cranky on the Web: More on Southwest’s Tech Failure
Southwest still delaying, canceling flights after technology outage – Houston Chronicle As Southwest continues to struggle to pull itself together again after…
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3 Links I Love: Southwest’s Inexcusable IT Meltdown, Why Concorde Failed, Boeing 100
Hope you like videos, because this week is full of them. This week’s featured link: Live from the Listening Center discussing recovery…
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Los Angeles May Have the Rams Back, But the FAA Has Problems with the Stadium
When I was a kid, I loved the Los Angeles Rams. I still have autographs from some of the all-time greats (including…
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Slowly But Surely, Expedia Catches Up with the Times on Flight Search
For many years, shopping for an airline ticket was about two things: price and schedule. More recently, that’s been changing. Airlines have…
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Travelport launches a new ‘We’re There’ commercial to showcase its Travel Commerce Platform (Sponsored Post)
As you know, Travelport has brought me out to a couple of events in previous years. There was the rollout of the…