Saturday, August 16, 2025

The Professor’s Minute Minute – August 17 2025



Sabre’s woes deepen (are they the new Starbucks), CFOs hedge their bets, tech gathers in Seattle, and the industry dares to imagine clean slates — capped off with an oddly weighty passenger in aviation history.

  1. Sabre still navigating the toilet

    Q2 aftershocks continue as Sabre struggles to convince investors it has a viable path forward. Analysts aren’t buying it.

    Read more.

  2. Start here — what can be done with Sabre

    Felix Dannegger offers a thought-provoking LinkedIn series on how to reboot Sabre’s PSS/GDS platforms from the ground up.

    See the post.

  3. Uncertainty remains — “very mixed,” says a CFO

    Aviation finance leaders voice cautious outlooks. Growth exists, but so do storm clouds. “Mixed” sums it up.

    Read more.

  4. Seattle Tech Week brings the tech universe together

    From AI to green tech, Seattle becomes the nexus of future-focused conversations across hundreds of events.

    Watch here.

  5. If you had a clean sheet, how would you start?

    Distribution visionary Felix Dannegger poses the ultimate thought experiment: if airline systems were rebuilt from scratch, what would they look like?

    Join the debate.

  6. Quirky: The heaviest man ever to fly

    In 1941, Robert Earl Hughes — who would weigh over 1,000 pounds in his lifetime — took a short airplane flight. Pilots reportedly described the takeoff as “memorable.” Aviation has carried elephants, cars, and spacecraft… but this human record remains a quirky footnote in flight history.

    Read more.

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