The Professor’s Minute Minute – September 27, 2025

 

Digital-only boarding, awards night, AA’s premium problem, C919 slips, Microsoft’s rethink—and a quirky history of Sabre.

1. Ryanair goes fully digital

   Mandatory digital boarding passes from next month. Fewer queues, more phones, inevitable edge cases.

   (Irish Times)

2. UK travel glitterati

   TTG’s Travel Industry Awards 2025: a who’s-who snapshot of the sector’s movers and shakers.

   (TTG Media)

3. American’s premium rhetoric vs reality

   A sharp take: AA still has a revenue problem—premium talk isn’t matching outcomes (and that debt load looms).

   (The Airline Observer)

4. COMAC’s C919 falls behind

   Filings show delivery targets slipping—the long road from certification to dependable production.

   (Reuters)

5. Microsoft trims defense work

   WSJ: Microsoft pulls back engagement with Israel’s defense ministry—watch for enterprise and geopolitics to intersect in cloud deals.

   (Wall Street Journal)

6. Quirky: How Sabre transformed aviation and IT — from punch cards to PNRs to the modern GDS stack, a brisk history lesson.

   (Airways)

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