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Achieving Startup Success via Product-Market Fit

Tom Spencer

For example, Southwest Airlines competes directly with Delta and American Airlines, but also competes with car travel because of its unique business model. Thus, Southwest must keep an eye on both the airline industry as well as automobile transportation. Another hidden substitute is for the customer to do nothing at all.

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Venezuela Strengthens Currency Controls in Impossible Mission to Stop Capital Flight; Airlines Collapse; End of the Line

MishTalk

In an effort to get money out of Venezuela, airline ticket sales had been booked solid for months. One airline cancelled all flights. The exchange rate for foreign travelers was just set to is 11.36 Please consider Venezuela Bonds Plunge After Bolivar Weakened for Travel. Bolivars to the dollar. No one wants them.

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How Smart Speakers Are Poised to Reinvent the Travel Industry

Harvard Business

Travelers with an Alexa device at home can book a car rental or hotel through Expedia and Kayak. On many fronts, artificial intelligence-powered smart speakers and apps seem poised to become the world’s virtual travel agents. People can even book flights through voice-enabled Google Search. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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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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Recruiting versus reality

Tom Spencer

But, like any sales pitch, there’s a degree of exaggeration behind the polished smiles. You’ll get to travel”. Though it’s highly likely you’ll travel domestically during your consulting career, it’s less likely you’ll have much control over where you travel (see above) or that you’ll travel internationally.

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The Secret Sauce to a Superior Customer Experience

Rick Conlow

I travel often. Delta Airlines employees never seem to be happy. Research shows us that the top service companies have higher sales growth and profits over time. A superior customer experience is rare. As a result, I live the best and worst customer experience’s companies have to offer. He acted more tired than I was.

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Russia Ponders Russian Airspace No-Fly Zone for EU Commercial and Passenger Jets

MishTalk

The sanctions retaliation game took another big leap forward today with the EU in the spotlight: Moscow May Force European Airlines to Fly Around Russia. At the height of the Cold War, most Western airlines were barred from flying through Russian airspace to Asian cities, and instead had to operate via the Gulf or the U.S.