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Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

This includes not only commercial airlines, but also cargo planes and military aircraft. Most commercial airlines contain two engines, while cargo planes and some military craft generally require four or more (common engines for these large-scale aerospace vehicles include PW JT9D-7R4G2 engines, GE CF6-80C2B1, or RR RB211-524D4 engines ).

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How Smart Speakers Are Poised to Reinvent the Travel Industry

Harvard Business

Marriott recently teamed up with Amazon to offer a hospitality version of the e-commerce giant’s Echo devices in select hotel rooms. Travelers with an Alexa device at home can book a car rental or hotel through Expedia and Kayak. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Insight Center.

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5 Questions to Stress Test Your Unique Value Proposition

LSA Global

Niches include: specific industries, market segments, geographic areas, buyer roles, degrees of complexity, types of approach, client challenges, amounts of risk, size of companies, levels of importance, meaningful causes, or packaging/bundling of solutions. Do We Have a Unique Enough Client Niche or Characteristic?

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How Service Companies Can Earn Customer Trust and Keep It

Harvard Business

A case in point is the recent United Airlines public relations fiasco that resulted when security personnel forcibly removed a ticketed customer from his plane seat to make room for one of its employees. To the extent possible, solve service problems before they reach the customer.

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Deflation Bonanza! (And the Fool's Mission to Stop It)

MishTalk

One widely recognized "big loser" is the tourism industry. For sure, hotel prices in Switzerland rose as much as 40% overnight compared to prices elsewhere. like restaurants, travel and hotels. If price of airline tickets drop will people stop flying? The recent move in the Swiss franc puts a spotlight on the issue.

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Blockchain Will Transform Customer Loyalty Programs

Harvard Business

See More Videos > See More Videos > All loyalty programs are vulnerable to a blockchain revolution, but the travel industry is perhaps the most at risk. In some cases, travel loyalty program points differ by journey component (flight, car rental, hotel, dining), leading to fragmented point collections. Insight Center.

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You Don’t Have to Be a Software Company to Think Like One

Harvard Business

Today, guests interact with this platform by wearing an RFID-enabled MagicBand, which serves as a ticket for entry, a store of FastPass ride and dining reservations, a hotel room key, a payment system and more. Today, Delta has industry-leading operations in metrics such as on-time arrivals, flight cancellations, and lost bags.