1st Edition
Air Travel Partnerships How to Create Greater Value through Collaboration
List of illustrations
Forewords
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
2 New era for travelers and ecosystem partners
3 Managing operational turbulence
4 Embracing self-connections and virtual interlining
5 Introducing new segments of air travel
6 Adapting and evolving with transformative technologies
7 Rewiring organizations for proactive and innovative collaboration
8 Thought leadership pieces
The first step to an AI-driven maintenance operation: Get clean to improve the odds of a successful AI initiative
Cameron Byrd, CEO, AIXI, and Barry Lott, Director Aircraft Records and Maintenance Reliability, Southwest Airlines
Embracing modern retailing: Paving the way forward
Hanife Hilal Demirtaş, Vice President (IT), Distribution and Sales Solutions, Turkish Airlines
Collaboration in the age of AI: A perspective from the financial services industry
Ali Faruqi, IT Manager, Wells Fargo
Technology, innovation, and collaboration are the foundation of air travel
Bob Kwik, Worldwide Head of Airport and Ground Transportation Solutions, Amazon Web Services
Opportunities and challenges with large language models (LLMs)
Sean M. Smith, Machine Learning Engineer, Amazon
About the author
Biography
Nawal K. Taneja, whose work experience spans more than five decades, has worked for and advised major airlines and related businesses worldwide. His experience also includes the presidency of a small airline that provided schedule and charter services with jet aircraft and the presidency of a boutique think tank that provided advisory services to the air transportation community throughout the world. Within the academic community, he has served on the faculties of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Ohio State University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society of Great Britain.
