As we write up these blogs to share with you, we typically have a process in place. This process has certain timelines and deadlines involved and obviously missing these deadlines has an impact on delivery. Where loading schedules in the airline industry is relatively straightforward, for the majority of the cruise ferry clients loading schedules
While embarking on artificial intelligence in the airline business, most of us assume that you need vast amount of datasets to get started. No doubt that AI is fueled by data, and so it only makes sense that the more data you have, the smarter your AI gets, right? Not exactly. How does one carve
Certainly is puzzling, but let me share my experiences and thoughts on this rule. I remember my very first active role in working on a major new business development activity with a very large international airline. I never thought that I had the qualities of a salesperson. Growing up in a family of teachers and
Businesses today face a start reality: anticipate, respond, and react to the growing demands of the market place or perish. This is even more pressing in our travel and transportation industry. In a fiercely competitive environment, business strategy not only determines success, it governs business survival. But time and again, we see massive failures and
One of the things that we have been hearing a lot about lately is the ability for real-time optimization of a single departure or a group of departures. This has many benefits for those departures that tend to get a significant number of bookings in the last few hours prior to departure – especially in
Every consumer wants to be reassured that their purchase is performing to the best of it’s ability and they are doing everything possible to maximize the utility of their investment. Revenue Management departments at transportation companies globally are no exception to this. Though it is widely accepted in the airline and cruise ferry world that
Revenue Management has been in existence for many decades now with airlines being the pioneer when it comes to using scientific approaches to maximize revenues on departures. However in the recent past, there has been a growing realization in the cruise ferry domain about the tremendous positive impact that automated revenue management systems can