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You Can't Vibe Code a Tour Operator
The travel industry is ten years behind on tech, and AI itinerary builders are making it worse, not better.Alex Ragin is the founder of Zoftify, a travel focused software agency, and Tourseta, a…
The New Olive: How GLP-1 Drugs Could Save Airlines $580M
The only sustainable innovations that actually scale are the ones customers never have to think about. Josh Dorfman has spent two decades building them.Josh Dorfman is the co-founder of Planted…
Vibe Booking: Hotel data Is Not AI Ready. Here's Why
The travel tech stack has a dirty secret: the more suppliers connect to each other, the higher the chance your inventory ends up competing against itself.Olivier Boinet is the founder of…
The Day We Killed the Date Picker
What if the AI moment in travel is less about building a better OTA, and more about making the OTA unnecessary?Christopher Olivares is the solo founder of Elyo (elyo.io), a conversational AI travel…
50 Years of tech debt, AI enters the chat
Airline distribution is sitting on decades of tech debt and AI might be the only thing that can fix it.Jim Hetzel is a travel and airline technology veteran who now leads retailing strategy at TWAI.…
Fix the Data First: A Contrarian's Guide to AI in Hospitality
Hotels are sitting on millions in uncollected revenue and corrupted content and most of them don't even know it.Fred Bean is the founder of HotelPORT, a hospitality content governance and…
Zero-Days, Superintelligence, and the Collapse of Software Assumptions
AI is rapidly changing the economics of software: code is cheaper to generate than ever, but significantly harder to reason about, validate, and secure. As systems become more automated, the real…
The 5-Minute Build That Breaks Traditional Travel Tech
For decades, building a travel business meant stitching together fragmented supply: GDS systems, hotel APIs, pricing layers, and fulfillment infrastructure. It was complex, expensive, and slow to…
What’s Actually Stopping Air Taxis From Taking Off
The US is about to publish rules that let drones fly beyond line of sight routinely — here's what that unlocks.Part 108, the FAA's upcoming rulemaking for beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS)…
The Real Reason One Broken Machine Disrupts an Entire Airport
Queues move, bags get scanned, and passengers eventually make it through. But beneath that surface is a fragile operational layer held together by fragmented systems, manual workarounds, and…
Why AI Is Slowing Down Experts Before It Speeds Up Work (Brooker, Painter, Deakin, McKenzie)
AI adoption inside teams is not following the narrative most people expect. In some cases, the most experienced engineers—the ones expected to benefit the most—are actually getting slower.That…
How a Simple Barcode Saved Airlines $1.5 Billion and Replaced Paper Tickets
That quick moment at the gate when you pull up a boarding pass on your phone and scan a QR code feels routine now. It isn’t.That interaction represents one of the most successful global standards…
Why Your Istanbul Airport Sandwich Costs €22: The Economics Behind Drop-Off Fees and Retail
Airports look like infrastructure businesses. Runways, terminals, aircraft movements. It’s easy to assume they make their money from planes.But some of the most valuable assets at…
Airports Still Run on 1980s Software: Why the Industry Is Moving Beyond AODB-Centric Operations
Hot on the heels of Heathrow Airport’s decision to use AIRHART as its digital backbone and with the Passenger Terminal Expo in London next week, in this episode, I speak with Martin Bowman, Chief…
The Telecom-to-Aviation Playbook for Scaling Airspace Systems
Aviation’s next scaling challenge isn’t about aircraft performance or autonomy. It’s about whether the invisible systems behind the scenes can interoperate, certify, and operate reliably in a highly…
Is AI in a Bubble? What Happens When Hype Meets Regulation
AI “bubble” talk usually collapses into a lazy argument: either everything is hype, or everything is inevitable. Rather than picking a side, this discussion breaks the topic into clearer components:…
“Dude, where’s my car?”: The Hidden Cost of Broken Indoor Navigation
Indoor wayfinding fails in the exact moments it matters most: when someone is stressed, unfamiliar with the space, short on time, or navigating in a second language. Airports and hospitals amplify…
This Ex-Pilot Is Building AI for the Cockpit
Aviation safety depends on having the right information at the right moment. The problem is that the information is fragmented, voluminous, and hard to retrieve when no flight is entirely the same.…
Beyond Line of Sight: The Infrastructure Drones Need to Fly
Most drone use cases fail for a surprisingly mundane reason: they can’t safely or legally scale past a few hundred meters. The aircraft are capable of flying kilometers, but operations collapse once…
Jevons Paradox for Knowledge Work
AI is making knowledge work faster — but it’s also surfacing an uncomfortable tension: when the “doing” becomes cheap, the limiting factor shifts to everything humans do around it. This tension shows…
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