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National Post
3 days ago
- Business
- National Post
Latest OAG Report: High-Quality Data and AI Transformation Are Critical to Building Resilience Across Airline Operations
Article content LONDON — OAG, the global leader in aviation data and analytics, is proud to release its latest industry report in collaboration with Microsoft: ' Can AI and the Right Data Rewrite the Rules of Airline Performance? '. Article content Article content From minimizing delays and turnaround bottlenecks to forecasting maintenance needs and enhancing stakeholder decision-making, AI is already delivering tangible impact—but only when powered by accurate, complete, and well-structured data. Article content The report explores how trusted data is enabling AI to address critical operational challenges in aviation today. From minimizing delays and turnaround bottlenecks to forecasting maintenance needs and enhancing stakeholder decision-making, AI is already delivering tangible impact—but only when powered by accurate, complete, and well-structured data. Article content Drawing on real-world case studies, robust research, and expert insight, the report illustrates how data readiness and AI transformation are ushering in a new era of operational resilience across the airline industry. Article content A key highlight of the report is a comprehensive visual mapping of nine of the airline industry's most persistent operational challenges, structured along the end-to-end operational journey from pre-flight to post-flight. For each, the report showcases one real-world AI use case already delivering tangible results, offering airline leaders and innovators a clear path from problem to solution. Article content Filip Filipov, OAG's Chief Operating Officer explained 'AI is already transforming airline operations but to truly scale its impact, the industry must prioritize data readiness. Scalable transformation is only possible with intelligent, high-quality data at the core of every AI solution.' Article content Article content Article content Article content Article content
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Latest OAG Report: High-Quality Data and AI Transformation Are Critical to Building Resilience Across Airline Operations
LONDON, June 03, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OAG, the global leader in aviation data and analytics, is proud to release its latest industry report in collaboration with Microsoft: "Can AI and the Right Data Rewrite the Rules of Airline Performance?". The report explores how trusted data is enabling AI to address critical operational challenges in aviation today. From minimizing delays and turnaround bottlenecks to forecasting maintenance needs and enhancing stakeholder decision-making, AI is already delivering tangible impact—but only when powered by accurate, complete, and well-structured data. Drawing on real-world case studies, robust research, and expert insight, the report illustrates how data readiness and AI transformation are ushering in a new era of operational resilience across the airline industry. A key highlight of the report is a comprehensive visual mapping of nine of the airline industry's most persistent operational challenges, structured along the end-to-end operational journey from pre-flight to post-flight. For each, the report showcases one real-world AI use case already delivering tangible results, offering airline leaders and innovators a clear path from problem to solution. Filip Filipov, OAG's Chief Operating Officer explained "AI is already transforming airline operations but to truly scale its impact, the industry must prioritize data readiness. Scalable transformation is only possible with intelligent, high-quality data at the core of every AI solution." The full report "Can AI and the Right Data Rewrite the Rules of Airline Performance?" is available to read now. About OAG OAG is a leading data platform for the global travel industry offering an industry-first single source for supply, demand, and pricing data. View source version on Contacts Media Enquiries: pressoffice@ Sign in to access your portfolio
Business Wire
3 days ago
- Business
- Business Wire
Latest OAG Report: High-Quality Data and AI Transformation Are Critical to Building Resilience Across Airline Operations
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- OAG, the global leader in aviation data and analytics, is proud to release its latest industry report in collaboration with Microsoft: " Can AI and the Right Data Rewrite the Rules of Airline Performance? '. From minimizing delays and turnaround bottlenecks to forecasting maintenance needs and enhancing stakeholder decision-making, AI is already delivering tangible impact—but only when powered by accurate, complete, and well-structured data. Share The report explores how trusted data is enabling AI to address critical operational challenges in aviation today. From minimizing delays and turnaround bottlenecks to forecasting maintenance needs and enhancing stakeholder decision-making, AI is already delivering tangible impact—but only when powered by accurate, complete, and well-structured data. Drawing on real-world case studies, robust research, and expert insight, the report illustrates how data readiness and AI transformation are ushering in a new era of operational resilience across the airline industry. A key highlight of the report is a comprehensive visual mapping of nine of the airline industry's most persistent operational challenges, structured along the end-to-end operational journey from pre-flight to post-flight. For each, the report showcases one real-world AI use case already delivering tangible results, offering airline leaders and innovators a clear path from problem to solution. Filip Filipov, OAG's Chief Operating Officer explained 'AI is already transforming airline operations but to truly scale its impact, the industry must prioritize data readiness. Scalable transformation is only possible with intelligent, high-quality data at the core of every AI solution.' The full report ' Can AI and the Right Data Rewrite the Rules of Airline Performance? ' is available to read now. About OAG OAG is a leading data platform for the global travel industry offering an industry-first single source for supply, demand, and pricing data.
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Texas budget bill passes with crime victim compensation fix sparked by KXAN
AUSTIN (KXAN) – The Texas budget bill, following conference committee agreement, has passed the legislature and will soon head to Gov. Greg Abbott for consideration. Included in Senate Bill 1 is a fix to the performance reporting process of the state's Crime Victims' Compensation Program sparked by a KXAN investigation. EXPLORE: KXAN's Crime Victims' Compensation fund investigations In 2022, KXAN began reporting on the impact of delayed payments by the CVC program, which is run by the Office of Attorney General. Amid that investigation, KXAN found the OAG was reporting an inaccurate picture of its performance to state officials and lawmakers. KXAN discovered the office was using a flawed formula that mixed two different types of payments in its calculation: victim claims and sexual assault examination reimbursements, the latter of which take just days and are paid directly to hospitals. That method made it appear crime victims and their loved ones were paid much faster for items like funeral expenses and medical restitution, on average, than the months-long reality our team documented through victim interviews and related records. After KXAN's reporting, the OAG acknowledged to lawmakers that the measurements weren't accurate. The budget bill directs the measurements be split apart, and it provides a 90-day average goal for victims' first payments. The bill also indicates the OAG 'shall submit a report detailing the expenditure of funds' for victim assistance. That report – which is to be submitted within 100 calendar days after the close of each fiscal year to the Legislative Budget Board, governor, Senate Finance Committee and House Appropriations Committee – will include 'audit and oversight activities conducted' related to the grants, thus increasing transparency and accountability for victims under the program. SB 1 next heads to the State Comptroller for certification. The comptroller will confirm the spending bill does not exceed the amount of revenue available. After certification, the bill heads to the governor for approval. The governor does have the power to line-item veto specific appropriations in the bill. Once signed, the bill becomes law. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Daily Mail
29-05-2025
- General
- Daily Mail
Disturbing sexual fantasies of top Texas government lawyer revealed as he's forced out of job
A top government lawyer was forced to resign after he had 'a disturbing sexual fantasy' about a colleague 'being violently anally raped by a cylindrical asteroid' in front of his wife and children, a lawsuit has revealed. Former Texas Solicitor General Judd Stone, 42, stepped down in October 2023 after admitting to telling several horrified employees about his deranged desire 'in graphic detail', according to a fresh civil complaint seen by Stone's fantasy is detailed in an internal letter penned by Brent Webster, the first assistant attorney general of Texas, who is the subject of the crazed reverie. Addressed to other top officials in the AG's office, Webster's 2024 letter is part of a lawsuit filed on Tuesday by Stone's former assistant claiming her boss sexually harassed her while failing to pay her wages in full. Webster's letter appeals to the office for protection for himself and his family against Austin-based Stone, who he described as 'a deeply unhinged obsessive human being who is one bad day away from murder'. 'I have serious safety concerns for my family and me,' the government employee wrote in December 2024. 'If you'll recall, we gave Judd the opportunity last year to resign instead of being fired for credible complaints of sexual misconduct by two female OAG employees. 'It appears he is still very much obsessed with me, and given what has transpired in the past, and things he's done or told me, I think you'll understand my fear.' Webster's letter details how the female former assistant of Stone's came to his office in floods of tears and disclosed the fantasy about him 'being violently anally raped by a cylindrical asteroid in front of my wife and children'. 'According to this employee, Judd publicly described this in excruciating detail over a long period of time, to a group of OAG employees, Office of the Governor employee(s), federal judges, and other non-government employees at a table,' Webster said. 'The female employee conveyed that she was so disgusted by the violent sexual nature of the discussion that she left the table to get away from it. 'When she came back, people at the table harassed her, joking that she 'couldn't handle people talking about dicks.'' Christopher Hilton, another legal heavyweight who was Stone's partner at his law firm, Stone Hilton PLLC, was also present and he too resigned in October 2023 for failing to address the harassment Stone displayed towards junior employees. 'Chris Hilton was clearly aware that this female employee was uncomfortable, shrugged at her, and did nothing,' Webster wrote. 'The female employee had other concerns about treatment of women and sexual harassment and exhibited emotional distress as she told me this story. 'She tearfully expressed to me that she could never work with Chris or Judd ever again. 'We finished the long conversation at the close of business. I was so disturbed by the violent sexual fantasies about me that I took the weekend to process the news.' 'Due to his pedophilic desire to have my children see me raped by a cylindrical asteroid, I am concerned that Judd poses a physical threat to me and my family,' Webster wrote. The sexual harassment came after Stone Hilton PLLC was formed to defend Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton during his impeachment trial in 2023. Stone, a Harvard Law graduate who previously clerked for conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, took a leave of absence from his post as Solicitor General at the AG's office to focus on the case. So too did Hilton from his role as Chief of the General Litigation Division. Two female employees at the firm told Webster they 'came to fear' Stone 'as a result of working in close quarters with him in a small house that he picked out for them all to do impeachment work in'. They detailed specific incidents in the May 2025 lawsuit, which also names Hilton as a defendant, including what allegedly unfolded on June 16, 2023, when the Stone Hilton team went to the Mort Subite Belgian Beer Bar for lunch. The female assistant said Hilton and Stone ordered four shots for four people at the table without asking, and told her to take one. She said, 'that is the most disgusting thing I have ever tasted', and Stone replied: 'I highly doubt that is the most disgusting thing that has ever been in your mouth'. The assistant said that on another occasion, Stone told her: 'In this firm, there are no rules. You can say whatever slurs you want.' He appeared to strongly ascribe to this himself. In one incident he called her 'white trash' for wearing turquoise earrings, according to her lawsuit. Stone also regularly 'screamed' at her over incidents including apparently taking too long to find a restaurant which would accommodate his large BBQ order as takeout. He allegedly took her to his office and screamed at her over the incident, before asking if she could try to cry while returning to the communal area. 'Do you think you can make yourself cry before you walk out? You know, to mess with everyone,' Stone told the assistant, according to her lawsuit. He yelled at her again after she completed the task of bringing a propane tank to work so they could grill in the office the following day, again for apparently bringing the tank too late despite it being within the time frame he requested. She added that Stone was spotted 'screaming' at female attorneys in the hallways on several occasions. The assistant's duties involved picking up alcohol for Stone and Hilton so they could day-drink in the office, and he once berated her for commenting on how full she had made a Manhattan cocktail at his request. To add insult to injury, the law firm underpaid the assistant by $5,000 a month - sending her a paycheck of $10,000 monthly instead of the promised $15,000 - according to her complaint. When the attorneys and assistants returned to the AG's office in October 2023 after successfully defending Paxton at his impeachment trial, the female employees aired their complaints to senior officials including Webster. Webster confronted them about the accusations, and Stone 'promptly admitted that all of the allegations were true'. Hilton did not deny them either. The disgraced duo were told to resign, which they did. 'Both women went out of their way to confirm that they knew that AG Paxton knew nothing about this, and that they wanted to make sure that I told AG Paxton so that he knew the danger that Judd and Chris posed to them and perhaps other women,' Webster wrote. He added that Paxton did take immediate action 'once he learned of the horrifying conduct Chris and Judd engaged in.' Webster also alleged that after his termination, it emerged that Stone 'had also previously been asked to resign from a position working for US Senator Ted Cruz due to sexual harassment complaints'. The latest lawsuit from Stone's assistant asks for payouts of an undisclosed amount from Stone for alleged 'past and future mental anguish damages, emotional pain, suffering', unpaid wages, and attorney fees among others. She also requested a jury trial in the US District Court, Western District of Texas division in Austin, accusing Stone of intentional infliction of emotional distress, violations of the fair labor standards act, and breach of contract.
