Google's AI-based contrail avoidance system cut the warming effect of airplane contrails by up to 40% in a trial with Cathay Pacific on 80 flights, including the Hong Kong-to-Singapore route. The syst…
Google has integrated airline and hotel award prices into AI Mode in Search, allowing users to search and book flights and hotels with points, with initial partners including American Airlines, Alaska…
Google has introduced three new travel-planning features in AI Mode in Search, including flight price tracking, points/miles rate display, and hotel booking. Flight price tracking is available in over…
Google is expanding AI Mode in Search to function as an all-in-one travel agent, adding flight price tracking in more than 180 countries, rewards points display for flights and hotels, and hotel booki…
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the Department of Transportation's order that would have broken up the Delta Air Lines and Aeromexico antitrust-immunized joint venture, allowing the airl…
Delta Air Lines' new AI-powered pricing engine, built on a custom TensorFlow Serving cluster with Kafka event streaming, targets a 50% profit jump by scoring each shopping request against a contextual…
Britain's air traffic control provider NATS and Google will launch Operation Blue Skies, a £5 million, 30-month program rerouting hundreds of transatlantic flights this winter to avoid climate-warming…
A daily AI news digest published on Aug 16 lists 30 stories, including reports that OpenAI is losing key personnel ahead of a potential IPO, Qwen 3.8 27B outperforms the larger Qwen 3.7 Plus in coding…
Two American Airlines Boeing 737s nearly collided because they shared the same callsign, causing air traffic controllers to issue instructions meant for one aircraft to both, until the Traffic Collisi…
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport has installed a new Surface Movement Radar, SMR-4, following the Jan. 29, 2025, midair collision that killed 67 people, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy an…
American Airlines' automated rebooking system AURA can remove passengers from connecting flights and place them on later ones without approval, even when they reach the gate on time, according to Simp…
Ocean spot rates have surged more than 300% in five months, straining manufacturing supply chains, according to GEODIS President and CEO Laura Ritchie, who said cargo booked in March is still rolling …
Retell AI, a Y Combinator-backed voice AI company valued at over $1.5B with $80M in annual recurring revenue, is hiring an Applied AI Engineer (Customer Facing) for its Redwood City headquarters, offe…
GraphQL has entered the Trough of Disillusionment in the 2026 Gartner Hype Cycle for APIs, a position Jeff Auriemma of Apollo GraphQL says is healthy because it forces the technology to prove its util…
A digest of 30 AI stories on July 29 covers topics including Sam Altman's view on AI CEOs, Google's first revenue dip and its implications for AI spending, chip stocks hitting a wall in the AI hype cy…
An IT outage at American Airlines grounded flights nationwide, highlighting the fragility of centralized infrastructure. The failure, likely a cascading system collapse, disrupted thousands of passeng…