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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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Blockchain Will Transform Customer Loyalty Programs

Harvard Business

In some cases, travel loyalty program points differ by journey component (flight, car rental, hotel, dining), leading to fragmented point collections. But the number of airline seats and hotel rooms available for redemption in recent years has been limited by near-record occupancy and load factors.

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Women Consultants: Part 2 of Sex Among the Consulting Class

The Crazy Lives of Consultants

Worldly, coin-operated, and experienced. Most of my female colleagues refuse to visit the hotel bar for fear of being harassed, and theyre right: Ive seen what happens when one ventures there after hours. Labels: Gotta Love the Client Site , Hotels , Sex. Women consultants. have to deal with an entirely different world, however.

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How an Airplane Laptop Ban Would Expose Company Data to Espionage

Harvard Business

government received credible intelligence that ISIS had developed the capability to conceal explosive devices within laptops, tablets, and other large electronic devices, these devices have been banned, as of late March, from the airline cabins of U.S.-bound Much of this theft occurs while American business travelers are operating overseas.

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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. Honor customers’ “perceived contract,” not the company’s legal contract.

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants: Quick! They Have Money! Propose.

The Crazy Lives of Consultants

Everyone knows consultants are driven by money, but most dont realize just how "coin operated" their firms can be. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Monday, March 18, 2013. They Have Money! Propose Something! Just like a cigarette machine, most consulting firms will happily devour your last dollar! Consultantese. (8). consulting. (9).