• Home
  • Post a press-release
  • Visibility packages
  • Subscribe email updates
  • Event Calendar
  • Contact

For Immediate Release | Official News Wire for the Travel Industry

Where press releases are breaking news

  • Home
  • Post a press-release
  • Visibility packages
  • Subscribe email updates
  • Event Calendar
  • Contact

United Airlines Chief Digital Officer named one of 2019 Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology

April 11, 2019 by Forimmediaterelease

Today, United Airlines Executive Vice President and Chief Digital Officer, Linda Jojo, was recognized by the National Diversity Council as one of the 2019 Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology. This prestigious list recognizes women who are shaping the future of technology with their insight and leadership. Jojo is the only airline executive to receive this award.

Since joining United in 2014, Jojo has played a critical role in differentiating the company’s operations and customer experience by using innovative data analytics, digital products and e-commerce. Under her leadership, United has issued over 60,000 mobile devices to its pilots, flight attendants, gate agents and technicians to increase mobility and arm employees with real-time data in order to provide more personal and caring service to its customers while improving the airline’s operation. Her team has also recently redesigned united.com and released a new, upgraded mobile app to provide intuitive assistance along every step of their journey. These enhancements have maintained United’s status as the number one downloaded app in the industry and delivered accelerative revenue growth through digital channels.

“The entire United family is incredibly proud of Linda for being recognized as one of the Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology,” said United’s Chief Executive Officer, Oscar Munoz. “This award is a true testament to her outstanding leadership abilities and the impact she is making not only at United, but across the corporate landscape. She has accomplished a lot in her time at United, and I look forward to all she and her team will do in the future as our airline continues to grow and excel.”

Jojo was selected for the 2019 Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology Award based on the following criteria:

• Top leader in her organization and profession
• Directly contributes to business growth or strategic direction of the organization
• Effective role model who inspires other women and is active in mentoring
• Operates with the highest integrity and ethical behavior
• Demonstrates a commitment to corporate citizenship

In addition to her work at United, Jojo is passionate about preparing young people for careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). She is vice chair of the Board of Trustees of the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, an organization with a mission to connect young people to STEM fields through exploration of space and the stars. She is also a member of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute board of trustees. Jojo holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and a master’s degree in industrial engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Travel News | eTurboNews

Share this:

  • Twitter
  • Facebook

Filed Under: Press Release Tagged With: American Travel News, and, App, assistance, Aviation News, aviation-website, award, Bachelor, based, behavior, board, Breaking Travel News, Business, business growth, chair, channels, Chicago, chief, chief executive, chief executive officer, citizenship, commerce, commitment, company, Computer, connect, continues, contributes, corporate, Corporate News, council, criteria, critical, customer, Customer Experience, customers, Data, data analytics, delivered, devices, digital, direction, directly, diversity, e-commerce, employees, Engineering, enhancements, ethical, ExCeL, executive, Executive Vice, Executive Vice President, experience, exploration, Family, flight, flight attendants, following, Forward, free, future, Gate, grow, Growth, highest, impact, in, increase, industrial, Industry, innovative, insight, Institute, issued, joining, journey, landscape, leader, leadership, list, LOT, Master, member, mission, mobile, mobile app, mobile devices, model, most, named, national, New, News articles, number, number one, officer, only, operation, operations, order, organization, outstanding, over, People, People in Travel, personal, pilots, Powerful, Powerful Women, president, prestigious, products, proud, real, receive, recognizes, redesigned, released, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Revenue, revenue growth, role, s, said, science, selected, service, space, Stars, status, STEM, strategic, team, technicians, Technology, Technology Award, The National, through, time, to, today, top, top 50, Transportation News, Travel Award News, Travelwire News, United, United Airlines, using, vice, vice chair, vice president, WHO, women, work, young

Taiwanese spy targets Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Resort in Florida with malicious software

April 2, 2019 by Forimmediaterelease

Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida is a luxury property and travel club owned by U.S. President Trump. The resort was the possible scene of an attempted spy attack on the United States by Taiwan.

According to a local news report, a Chinese woman carrying a passport by the Republic of China, what is Taiwan, has been charged with making a false statement to the U.S. Secret Service after entering President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on bogus pretenses while carrying a thumb drive that contained “malicious software.

Yujing Zhang was questioned while President Trump was playing golf at the Trump International course nearby.

Zhang, after passing by at least five Secret Service agents and arriving in the main reception area of Mar-a-Lago told the Secret Service that she was there to attend a “United Nations Friendship Event” between China and the United States.

That event did not exist, according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Southern Florida. The complaint noted that Zhang had traveled past several signs clearly stating that the areas she was visiting were under the jurisdiction of the Secret Service and that “persons entering without lawful authority are subject to arrest and prosecution.”

Zhang was carrying four mobile phones, a laptop computer, an external hard drive, and a thumb drive.

A preliminary forensic examination of the thumb drive determined it contained malicious software.The Secret Service declined to comment.

According to the criminal complaint, Zhang was admitted to Mar-a-Lago after passing through a Secret Service checkpoint, where she presented an agent with two Republic of China passports carrying her name, and her photograph, the complaint said.

Zhang was charged with making false statements to a federal officer, and entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds.

Zang was allowed by Mar-a-Lago security to enter the property “due to a potential language barrier issue,” the complaint said.

She was then picked up in a golf cart shuttle by a Mar-a-Lago valet driver, who asked her where she intended to go.

A Secret Service agent was notified after a receptionist checked all of the access lists for Mar-a-Lago to confirm whether Zhang was approved to be on the property, and found that she was not authorized, according to the complaint.

Travel News | eTurboNews

Share this:

  • Twitter
  • Facebook

Filed Under: Press Release Tagged With: and, approved, area, areas, arrest, arriving, attack, attend, authority, bogus, Breaking Travel News, building, carrying, charged, China, Chinese, club, comment, complaint, Computer, contained, course, court, criminal, declined, District, Donald, Donald Trump, drive, driver, due, event, External, false, federal, Florida, found, GO!, golf, Government Affairs, grounds, hard drive, Hospitality News, in, International, IT, language, laptop, local, Luxury, luxury property, Luxury Travel News, Main, Mar, MaraLago, mobile, mobile phones, name, nations, News, News articles, officer, passing, Passport, passports, past, People in Travel, persons, phones, potential, president, President Donald, President Donald Trump, President Trump, property, prosecution, reception, report, republic, resort, Resort News, s, said, scene, Secret, Secret Service, Secret Service agents, Security, service, shuttle, signs, Software, Southern, statement, statements, states, Taiwan, Taiwanese, targets, the United States, through, to, TO BE, told, tourism, Travel, travel club, traveled, Travelwire News, Trump, United, United Nations, United States, up, visiting, were, WHO, woman, Zhang

Huge flight outage grounds airlines: Passengers stranded

April 1, 2019 by Forimmediaterelease

A major computer outage is affecting flights all over the United States this morning causing delays across the nation, especially the West Coast.

What caused the outage was an IT issue from an outside contractor. Airlines go to this outside contractor to receive a wing and balance okay confirming that everything from the cargo to the passengers are properly balanced before take off.

When this system went down, most affected was Southwest Airlines, however regional carriers that work for United, Delta, and American Airlines were also affected.

The outage lasted for approximately 40 minutes, but the effects will continue to ripple throughout the day, because so many flights were delayed, clogging up the system.

Travel News | eTurboNews

Share this:

  • Twitter
  • Facebook

Filed Under: Press Release Tagged With: and, Aviation News, aviation-website, balance, Breaking Travel News, cargo, carriers, coast, Computer, computer outage, continue, contractor, day, delays, Delta, down, effects, Feature, flight, flights, GO!, grounds, IT, major, minutes, most, nation, News articles, outage, outside, over, passengers, passengers stranded, receive, regional, Southwest, Southwest Airlines, states, stranded, system, take off, the United States, to, Transportation News, Travel Destination News, Travel Technology News, United, United States, up, went, were, West, West Coast, work

Is there a right way to take a Staycation?

March 25, 2019 by Forimmediaterelease

Can you really not go anywhere and call it a vacation? Even more importantly, can you take time off, stay at home or go away, and unplug from the office? As the Staycation enters its second decade, what’s changed and made it an attractive alternative for many families?

“The Staycation became a thing after the 2008 crash when many families simply didn’t have the resources to take that trip to Disney World or the rental fee for that lakeside cabin or ocean cottage, so they stayed at home for vacation,” said Peter Hans, president of Discovery Map International since 2005. “This year, there are a number of families who didn’t quite get as large a tax return as they had in years past. Consequently, the Staycation is back on the table for some families.”

While the Staycation may be in its second decade, the ground rules for fun and stress-free breaks remain pretty much the same. For starters, no contact with your office allowed. Just because you’re not going away for an extended trip is no reason to be calling in to the office. Time off is meant for you to rest up and recharge your batteries. You can’t do that if you’re never mentally away.

Hans said: “You also want to limit your computer time. Remember, you’re on vacation. Restrict your computer time to researching potential day trips. NO E-MAIL, unless you’re being sent a confirmation or reservation number.”

He also recommends not setting an alarm if you don’t have to. Remember, you are on nobody’s schedule but your own. You also want to limit your household chores that week unless you’re specifically taking the week off to complete a project, e.g. painting your house, keep your home chores to a minimum. That doesn’t mean let the dishes in the sink stack up. Just don’t sweat it if the lawn goes a few days without being cut.

Additionally, a rather bold suggestion for your Staycation is: Leave your cell phone off unless you need to use it. Said Hans, “Your phone can be handy if you’re traveling with other families or your group splits off into two’s. So, leaving it home is not practical. Just make sure you don’t take calls from anybody not in your vacation group. If you’re curious or worried about an emergency, just check the voice mail they leave.”

Continued Hans, “If you were on a cruise ship you wouldn’t answer a call from the office. Your Staycation deserves that same respect. Remember, you work hard for your time off and you owe it to yourself — your family and — believe it or not, your employer to come back rested and ready with your batteries fully recharged.”

For more information on Discovery Map, visit discoverymap.com.

Travel News | eTurboNews

Share this:

  • Twitter
  • Facebook

Filed Under: Press Release Tagged With: and, attractive, batteries, bold, Breaking Travel News, breaks, cabin, cell phone, changed, check, come, complete, Computer, confirmation, contact, continued, crash, Cruise ship, Cruise,, cut, day, decade, Discovery, Disney, Disney World, e-mail, emergency, employer, even, families, Family, fee, free, fun, G, GO!, ground, Group, Hans, home, house, in, information, International, International Travel News, IT, just, keep, leave, leaving, Let, limit, mail, Make, map, May, need, number, ocean, office, painting, past, Paywall articles, Peter Hans, phone, potential, premium, president, project, ready, reason, recommends, rental, reservation, resources, respect, return, right, rules, s, said, schedule, second, setting, ship, sink, stay, staycation, stress, stress-free, taking, tax, time, time off, to, TO BE, traveling, trip, trips, up, use, vacation, visit, way, week, were, WHO, work, World, worried, year, years

Ethiopian Airlines CEO believes in The New Spirit of Africa and pledges to work with Boeing

March 25, 2019 by Forimmediaterelease

Tewolde GebreMariam, Group CEO, Ethiopian Airlines issued a statement today.

He wrote: “It has been more than two weeks since the tragic crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight 302. The heartbreak for the families of the passengers and crew who perished will be lasting. This has forever changed their lives, and we at Ethiopian Airlines will feel the pain forever. I pray that we all continue to find strength in the weeks and months ahead.

The people of Ethiopia feel this very deeply, too. As a state-owned airline and the flagship carrier for our nation, we carry the torch for the Ethiopian brand around the world. In a nation that sometimes is saddled with negative stereotypes, accidents like this affect our sense of pride.

Yet this tragedy won’t define us. We pledge to work with Boeing and our colleagues in all the airlines to make air travel even safer.

As the largest aviation group on the continent of Africa, we represent The New Spirit of Africa and will continue to move forward. We are rated as a 4-star global airline with a high safety record and member of Star Alliance. That will not change.

Full Cooperation

The investigation of the accident is well underway, and we will learn the truth. At this time, I do not want to speculate as to the cause. Many questions on the B-737 MAX airplane remain without answers, and I pledge full and transparent cooperation to discover what went wrong.

As it is well known in our global aviation industry, the differences training between the B-737 NG and the B-737 MAX recommended by Boeing and approved by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration called for computer-based training, but we went beyond that. After the Lion Air accident in October, our pilots who fly the Boeing 737 Max 8 were fully trained on the service bulletin issued by Boeing and the Emergency Airworthiness Directive issued by the USA FAA. Among the seven Full Flight Simulators that we own and operate, two of them are for B-737 NG and the B-737 MAX. We are the only airline in Africa among the very few in the world with the B-737 MAX full flight Simulator. Contrary to some media reports, our pilots who fly the new model were trained on all appropriate simulators.

The crews were well trained on this aircraft.

Immediately after the crash and owing to the similarity with the Lion Air Accident, we grounded our fleet of Max 8s. Within days, the plane had been grounded around the world. I fully support this. Until we have answers, putting one more life at risk is too much.

Belief in Boeing, U.S. Aviation

Let me be clear: Ethiopian Airlines believes in Boeing. They have been a partner of ours for many years. More than two-thirds of our fleet is Boeing. We were the first African airline to fly the 767, 757, 777-200LR, and we were the second nation in the world (after Japan) to take delivery of the 787 Dreamliner. Less than a month ago, we took delivery of yet another new two 737 cargo planes (a different version from the one that crashed). The plane that crashed was less than five months old.

Despite the tragedy, Boeing and Ethiopian Airlines will continue to be linked well into the future.

We also are proud of our association with U.S. aviation. The general public does not know that Ethiopian Airlines was founded in 1945 with help from Trans World Airlines (TWA). In the early years, our pilots, flight crews, mechanics and managers were actually employees of TWA.

In the 1960s, after the handoff, TWA continued in an advisory capacity, and we’ve continued to use American jets, American jet engines and American technology. Our mechanics are Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certified.

Our first direct passenger service to the U.S. began in June 1998, and today we fly direct to Africa from Washington, Newark, Chicago and Los Angeles. This summer, we will begin flying from Houston. Our cargo flights connect in Miami, Los Angeles and New York.

U.S. travel to Africa has increased more than 10 percent in the last year, second only to travel to Europe in term of the percentage increase — traveling to Africa has increased more than traveling to Asia, the Middle East, Oceania, South America, Central America or the Caribbean. The future is bright, and Ethiopian Airlines will be here to meet the demand.

In less than a decade, Ethiopian Airlines has tripled the size of its fleet – we now have 113 Boeing, Airbus and Bombardier aircraft flying to 119 international destinations in five continents. We have one of the youngest fleet in the industry; our average fleet age is five years while industry average is 12 years. Moreover, we have tripled the passenger volume, now flying more than 11 million passengers annually.

Each year, our Aviation Academy trains more than 2,000 pilots, flight attendants, maintenance workers and other employees for Ethiopian Airlines and several other African airlines. We are the company others turn to for aviation expertise. In the last 5 years, we have invested more than half a Billion dollars in training and other infrastructure in our Addis Ababa base.

We will work with investigators in Ethiopia, in the U.S. and elsewhere to figure out what went wrong with flight 302.

We resolve to work with Boeing and others to use this tragedy to make the skies safer for the world.”

Travel News | eTurboNews

Share this:

  • Twitter
  • Facebook

Filed Under: Press Release Tagged With: and, Angeles, answers, approved, around the world, Asia, association, average, aviation, Aviation Administration, aviation industry, Aviation News, aviation-website, B, base, based, begin, billion, billion dollars, Boeing, Boeing 737, Bombardier, brand, Breaking Travel News, capacity, cargo, cargo flights, Caribbean, carrier, Cause, Central, Central America, CEO, certified, change, changed, Chicago, Clear, colleagues, company, Computer, connect, continent, continue, continued, cooperation, crash, crashed, crew, crews, decade, delivery, demand, Destinations, differences, different, direct, dollars, Dreamliner, early, East, emergency, employees, engines, Ethiopia, Ethiopia travel news, Ethiopian, Ethiopian Airlines, Ethiopian airlines ceo, Ethiopian Airlines Flight, Europe, even, expertise, FAA, families, Feature, federal, Federal Aviation Administration, find, first, flagship, flagship carrier, fleet, flight, flight attendants, flight simulator, flights, fly by, Flying, Forward, full, future, GebreMariam, general, Global, global aviation, grounded, Group, Group CEO, half, help, high, Houston, I do, immediately, in, increase, increased, Industry, infrastructure, International, international destinations, invested, investigation, investigators, issued, IT, japan, jet, jets, June, largest, last, learn, less, Let, life, like, linked, lion, Lion Air, Los Angeles, maintenance, Make, managers, MAX, mechanics, media, media reports, meet, member, Miami, Middle, Middle East, million, million passengers, model, month, months, move, nation, negative, New, new york, Newark, NG, October, only, operate, out, pain, partner, passenger, passenger service, passenger volume, passengers, People, percent, percentage, pilots, planes, pledge, pray, Pride, proud, public, putting, questions, record, reports, resolve, Risk, s, Safety, second, service, seven, simulator, Size, skies, South, South America, Spirit, Star, Star Alliance, State, statement, strength, summer, support, Technology, term, Tewolde, Tewolde Gebremariam, the Caribbean, The World, time, to, TO BE, today, torch, tragedy, Tragic, training, trains, Trans, transparent, Transportation News, Travel, Travel Disaster & Emergency News, travel to europe, traveling, Travelwire News, truth, turn, TWA, TWA continued, U.S, U.S. travel, underway, US, USA, use, Washington, We, weeks, went, were, WHO, won, work, workers, World, wrong, wrote, year, years, York

  • 1
  • 2
  • Next Page »

Search




Recent Articles

  • Sandals Resorts delivers authentic vacations
  • Seychelles makes remarkable presence at Spain’s FITUR 2023
  • The St. Regis Venice celebrates romance
  • Luxury romantic Valentine’s Day package from Blossom Hotel Houston
  • Ministry of Tourism and Hidden Worlds launch student art contest
  • ITP Media Group visits Seychelles Islands for luxury experience
  • Spanish hoteliers commit to assist in building 2,000 homes for hotel workers
  • GTRCMC to strengthen ties with Development Bank of Latin America (CAF)
  • Appointment of Latia Duncombe as Director General of Bahamas Ministry of Tourism, Investments and Aviation
  • Experience the Caribbean – Sandals Resorts style

Subscribe to daily email update

RSS eTN Articles

  • Indonesia Tourism Minister invites World Travel Industry SMEs to Bali
  • Mayo Clinic Bali International Hospital at WTN Medical Tourism Think …
  • Nordic travelers’ top holiday choice are Seychelles
  • VisitBritain GREAT Gateway Innovation Fund
  • Club Med appoints Valerie Loy
  • St. Regis Bermuda Resort Casino
  • 2023 Arctic Winter Games
  • Gaby Hoarau, a Seychelles Veteran Politician passes away
  • UnCruise has no more vaccination requirements
  • SAUDIA: A New Trendy Airline for Sports, Tourism, Sustainability

Archives

  • January 2023
  • December 2022
  • November 2022
  • October 2022
  • September 2022
  • August 2022
  • July 2022
  • June 2022
  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • March 2022
  • February 2022
  • January 2022
  • December 2021
  • November 2021
  • October 2021
  • September 2021
  • August 2021
  • July 2021
  • June 2021
  • May 2021
  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • February 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • August 2016

Content

and Breaking Travel News Business CEO experience first free hotel Hotels in including Industry International International Travel News IT minister most New News articles only over People s said sandals The World through time to TO BE tourism Tours Transportation News Travel Travel & Tourism Organizations News Travel Destination News Travelwire News up We were WHO World World News year years

Copyright © 2023 · Metro Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in