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Remember that IT project that your company launched and turned out to be a bust? The answer, of course, is yes: There are likely few organizations that haven’t been touched by some IT project mishap, or worse, disaster. How can that be? Why, despite decades of implementing IT systems, are organizations still struggling with their tech projects? My colleague, R.M. Bastien, and I have studied hundreds of such projects, and found that the root causes of failing or underachieving tech investments were rarely where executives would ever have thought to look.

President Joe Biden will nominate a former Obama administration official to lead the Federal Aviation Administration, which has been without a permanent leader for a year and a half

Australian Transport Minister Catherine King says invasive gynecological examinations conducted on passengers at Doha’s international airport in 2020 were part of the reason she refused to allow Qatar Airways to double its services to Australia

Tom Brady is putting on a Delta Air Lines uniform, at least figuratively

Air Canada says it has apologized to two women who were booted off a flight by security after protesting that their seats were smeared in vomit

DGCA has reinstated approval for Air India's simulator facilities at Mumbai and Hyderabad. This will allow the airline to restart training of pilots which was stopped after the regulator has suspended approval following an audit which found the airline wasn't adhering to standards of the regulator. Air India operates two simulators. The Boeing pilots are trained in a facility in Mumbai while pilots operating the Airbus fleet are trained in Hyderabad. Simulators are used to familiarize pilots with the plane's operational procedures and to prepare them for all situations by creating real world scenarios in the cockpit. Sources said that the regulator had given a conditional approval to operate the simulators after the deficiencies were rectified.

The Albanese government is considering introduced blending mandates, targets for sustainable aviation fuel or low-carbon fuel standards to try and help the hard-to-abate sector cut its carbon emissions.

Air Canada flight set up themselves in an uncomfortable situation when they were asked to enthrall seats that had not been duly gutted and still bore traces of heave. The incident unfolded on a flight bound for Vienna via Montreal, sparking wide attention and debate. The incident came to light after a fellow passenger, Susan Benson, participated her experience in a viral Facebook post.

Qantas’ major superannuation investors are ramping up the pressure on the airline’s board to curtail outgoing chief executive Alan Joyce’s pay packet, warning his early exit “has not erased the issues that concern us”.

The chief executive of THL, which operates a fleet of 7233 rental campervans and motorhomes, is backing the push to open Australia to more competition from international airlines such as Qatar Airways.

Transport Minister Catherine King has promised to deal with anti-competitive behaviour by airlines at the country’s largest airport “shortly”, after releasing a report into aviation that acknowledges competition concerns but provides little in the way of solutions.

Investing.com — The Dow closed lower Wednesday as fresh inflation jitters renewed concerns about higher for longer interest rates, while a plunge in Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) also dented sentiment on stocks. 

In this week’s newsletter, read about how German flagship airline Lufthansa uses nonfungible tokens (NFTs) to reward loyal customers and how soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo teased his future NFT plans during a lie detector test. Check out why a law professor believes the metaverse should be taxed, and find out how artificial intelligence (AI) and NFTs can provide a personalized learning experience to children. And don’t forget this week’s Nifty News, featuring a Mutant Ape NFT selling for over $800,000 amid an ongoing downward price trend. 

Delta flight traveling from Atlanta to Barcelona was forced to return, reportedly due to a «biohazard issue» resulting from a passenger experiencing diarrhea onboard, according to media reports. Flight 194 had been in the air for approximately two hours on a Friday evening when the pilot made the decision to return to its departure point. In an audio clip shared on X (formerly Twitter), the pilot mentioned that a passenger had suffered from diarrhea, affecting multiple areas of the aircraft, as per reports. Following the incident, the plane underwent a thorough cleaning process and eventually departed for Barcelona the following day. Delta, in a statement provided to the Insider website, confirmed that there had indeed been a «medical issue» on board, necessitating the return to Atlanta for cleaning purposes. The statement read: «Delta Flight 194 from Atlanta to Barcelona returned to Atlanta following an onboard medical issue.» This occurrence follows a recent incident in which 11 passengers and crew members were hospitalized due to severe turbulence on a Delta flight from Milan to Atlanta, as reported by the US-based airline.

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Jeddah-bound flight of Indonesia-based Lion Air were stranded at the international airport here for around 24 hours after a technical issue was found in the aircraft when it stopped for refuelling here on Tuesday, airport sources said. An alternative aircraft of the airline arrived from Indonesia on Wednesday afternoon to take the passengers onward to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, the source said. The Lion Air flight — JT052 — with 212 passengers landed at the Thiruvananthapuram International airport at 3 pm on Tuesday for refuelling and that is when the technical issue was spotted.

Delhi airport will have dedicated gates and a dedicated corridor to ensure seamless immigration clearance for G20 delegates, and a team of senior officials will monitor arrival and departure operations related to the summit. Ahead of the G20 Summit, which will be held in the national capital on September 9 and 10, Delhi airport operator DIAL on Wednesday said there are a required number of parking slots for VVIP aircraft, and that most of the guests for the summit will be coming by chartered flights or special VIP flights. «While many of the guests will be arriving at Air Force Station on the Palam side, there are many other heads of states as well as other delegation members who are going to come at Terminal-3.

Bloomberg on 6 September. On Wednesday, the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority said it will conduct an independent review of the incident, which forced hundreds of flights to be canceled or delayed last week after an error in processing an airline’s flight plan. According to a preliminary report from the public-private partnership formerly called National Air Traffic Service, the glitch triggered a shutdown of the software system run by NATS for safety reasons.

Ace Aviation VIII Ltd, on Wednesday, was successful in securing an adjournment from the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) in its petition filed against the monitoring committee of Jet Airways for enforcing the sale of three aircraft. The senior counsel appearing on behalf of Ace Aviation argued that the matter be taken up after the pronouncement of the National Company Law Tribunal Mumbai order, which was reserved on August 30. The senior counsel said that withdrawing the current petition or terming it as infructuous, as proposed by the other side, would limit the bidder's options. At the last hearing on August 10, the chairperson's bench had refused to issue notice and adjourned the matter to September 6, as the NCLT was to pronounce its order on August 30. The matter was heard by a different bench today, which adjourned it to September 27. Ace Aviation had approached the appellate tribunal after the NCLT Mumbai had given an interim order asking the monitoring committee to break the deadlock on the sale of three aircraft. The monitoring committee of the beleaguered airline had kept the bidding process in abeyance after it could not all members to agree on the sale.

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By Shristi Achar A and Amruta Khandekar