Saturday, November 08, 2025

The Professor’s Minute Minute — November 9, 2025

 

Sunday brings reflections on the 777X saga, shutdown realities, AI evolution, earnings nuance, more carbon scams, and a farewell to a long, elegant classic.

The Story Behind the 777X Delays

Fresh delays hit the 777X — again. A detailed look at what’s holding back Boeing’s next flagship from taking off.

https://www.iba.aero/resources/articles/the-777x-hit-with-fresh-delays/

Airlines Didn’t Wait — Trump Did

While the administration delayed action, airlines took steps to prepare for FAA disruption. Leadership lag can be costly.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/us/politics/flight-cuts-government-airports-faa.html

AI Moves to Reasoning — Now We’re Talking

Seattle Tech Week shows AI shifting from predictions to reasoning. This is the inflection point that actually changes travel.

https://www.madrona.com/seattle-tech-week-2025/

Expedia + AI: Two Paths, One Bet

Expedia’s Q3 shows twin-track AI adoption — internal efficiency and external consumer tools. Smart move: hedge both fronts.

https://www.phocuswire.com/expedia-group-q3-2025-earnings

And the Scams Keep Coming

Carbon markets hit by yet another scandal. The credibility gap in offsets keeps widening.

https://mailchi.mp/carbonmarketwatch/newsletter-april-5864706

Quirky: Farewell, 757-300

The long, graceful Boeing 757-300 heads to the boneyard. An aircraft that looked like it skipped leg day — but we loved it anyway.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/condor-retires-boeing-757/ar-AA1PSyu6

A Picasso Blue Period–style cubist landscape (1200×628) in cool blues with muted shadows. Symbolic elements: a stretched, incomplete aircraft fuselage for the 777X delays; a paused or suspended control tower light for political hesitation; a branching neural motif shifting into structured logic shapes for AI reasoning; two diverging yet parallel pathways merging into one travel icon for Expedia’s twin AI strategies; a cracked carbon-credit token for the offset scam; and an elongated aircraft silhouette gracefully turning toward a desert horizon for the 757-300 farewell. No text anywhere and at most two subtle brand-colour hints integrated into the art.

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