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Update on Boeing 737 MAX Fuselage Door Plug Incident

Supply Chain Matters

As highlighted in our original commentary , an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft flying at 16,000 feet experienced a main cabin decompression as a result of a rear exit fuselage door plug blowing out. That has implications for Alaska, United and Copa airlines, the noted operators of this MAX variant.

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Cyberattacks: The Ever-Present Threat to Transportation Management Software

GTG Technology Group

The 21 st century presents a new kind of threat that challenges older defense measures. Transportation management software must be designed to withstand this kind of attack, an ever-changing, ever-present threat that forces companies to keep their software updated and protected. Today, the preferred tool of attack is the cyberattack.

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Boeing’s Financial Performance- External Pressures Increase

Supply Chain Matters

Management Commentary As we have noted in prior updates, the latest being last week , the incident of a near catastrophic blowout of an Alaska Airlines newly delivered Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft has triggered a series of new events hat have added more scrutiny to Boeing ’s production and quality control processes.

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What’s Holding Back Customer-Centric Air Cargo?

Freightos

That was my big take from Elevate , presented by Air Cargo World earlier this month. Alaska Airlines launched online seat booking in December 1995 – over 20 years ago! Image courtesy of Alaska Airlines. Full disclosure: This article contains many great quotes from the conference’s speakers. The Technology Is Already Here.

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Finish What You Start and Never Give Up

BlueYonder

CS: I grew up in Anchorage, Alaska. The first was moving back to Alaska to support my husband, considering my role at JDA and my travel schedule. But the best thing about being in Alaska is having so much family around. We are a team and are presented together; it is not ‘I’ but we. SCN: Where did you grow up?

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Finish What You Start and Never Give Up

BlueYonder

CS: I grew up in Anchorage, Alaska. The first was moving back to Alaska to support my husband, considering my role at JDA and my travel schedule. But the best thing about being in Alaska is having so much family around. We are a team and are presented together; it is not ‘I’ but we. SCN: Where did you grow up?

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What’s the Solution to Power Outage Proliferation

USC Consulting Group

These included Alaska (138 minutes), the state with the lowest population density, Arizona (138 minutes), Wyoming (153 minutes), Vermont (172 minutes), and Montana (212 minutes). In general, however, the uptick is largely due to a lack of investment in fixing the grid as it presently exists and the growth in the country’s population.