13 November 2025

Trust in GenAI Isn’t the Problem. Trust in the Travel Supply Chain Is.

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This is the longer version from Linked in.  Are we condemened to burn in Amadeus's hell? Read on.  Let’s be honest:  We know that many ...
05 October 2025

Who’s Failing the Pacific? A Cross-Airline Reality Check on Long-Haul Wi-Fi (2024–2025)

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So you start your journey across the pacific. Great you think I can sleep have a bevi, watch some movies, work a bit...  ...that is what I t...
04 October 2025

A Critique of My ChatGPT Experience: Three Weeks of Frustrating Coding Attempts

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  Discipline is hard. Using ChatGPT can be harder. Over three weeks, I used ChatGPT as a partner for technical work. I am not a code...
26 September 2025

The GTF Engine Crisis: From Early Optimism to a 2028 Resolution

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How a powder-metal defect in Pratt & Whitney’s GTF engines triggered cascading costs across OEMs, airlines, and the global narrow-body m...
19 September 2025

Vienna’s Low-Cost Exodus: Ryanair, Wizz Air, and the (maybe) High Price of Taxes

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This must make Scott Kirby very happy! When two of Europe’s largest low-cost carriers announce they’re cutting back in the same city, it’s...
18 September 2025

New Head of USPTO promises a path different and less conservative.

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  Yesterday the U.S. Senate confirmed John A. Squires as the new Director / Under Secretary for IP at the USPTO.   His confirmatio...
03 September 2025

When Algorithms Become the Landlord: RealPage, Airbnb, and the Coming Death of Pricing Control

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  Let’s drop the pretense. RealPage didn’t invent “innovation in pricing.” It industrialized collusion. The DOJ’s antitrust lawsuit ...
30 August 2025

Heathrow Slots: ***Correction***, New Math, Same Awkward Question

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  Apology: I messed up the conversion from weekly slots to daily slot pairs . Heathrow data is usually quoted as weekly...

Travel Sites Beware, New Requirements Will Ensnare You

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As someone who hops across countries via VPN to mirror consumer behavior and test websites from every digital lens, yeah, that’s me, I’m u...
26 August 2025

Booked the Wrong Thing? That’s On You : The Cruel Logic of Travel Retail

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In travel, if you screw up, it’s your fault. Period. It doesn’t matter if the system was confusing, the fare rules buried under 14 tabs, ...