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      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Alex Brooker</dc:creator>
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      <category>Answer Engine Optimisation</category>
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      <description>A hotel can hold billions of pixels of its own ballroom and still be invisible to ChatGPT. This week&apos;s guest says his team took one Bay Area property from undiscoverable to first in its region, and…</description>
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      <title>Who Can Still Design a Plane?</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Alex Brooker</dc:creator>
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      <category>Aircraft Certification Depth</category>
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      <description>Airbus&apos;s last clean sheet design was the A350. Boeing&apos;s was the 787, over 20 years ago. This week&apos;s guest thinks the skill of designing an aircraft from scratch is quietly retiring with the engineers…</description>
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      <title>Cancel the Flights So Nobody Misses Connections</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Alex Brooker</dc:creator>
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      <category>AI Driven Decisions</category>
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      <description>When Kevin and I first tested an AI on a real ops problem (three inbound flights landing together, protect every connection), it answered with flawless logic: cancel the flights.</description>
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      <title>Code Is Twenty Percent of the Thing</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <category>Domain Knowledge Value</category>
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      <title>The Pricing Fight Inside Every Airline</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Alex Brooker</dc:creator>
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      <category>OTA Competitive Monitoring</category>
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      <description>Everyone predicted AI chat would kill metasearch. Ask a chatbot for the cheapest fare to Europe, and why would you ever open a comparison site again?</description>
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      <title>Who Your AI Travel Agent Actually Works For</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Alex Brooker</dc:creator>
      <category>Newsletter</category>
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      <category>Agentic Trust Infrastructure</category>
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      <description>Read the small print on the big booking sites and you&apos;ll find the offer at the top may not be the one in your best interest, just the one that pays best.</description>
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      <title>ChatGPT Said the Visa Would Be Accepted. It Wasn&apos;t.</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <category>AI Visa Misinformation</category>
      <category>eVisa Disruption</category>
      <description>Rob Lee&apos;s company shares an office wall in Chicago with the Chinese consulate, and every day he watches hundreds of people file in to pay $150 to $170 for a visa.</description>
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      <title>The Deal AI Can Never Find</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Alex Brooker</dc:creator>
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      <category>Flight Subscription Economics</category>
      <category>Loyalty vs Subscriptions</category>
      <description>In 1990, Mark Cuban sold his first company for $6 million, went out with his friends, and while still drunk, rang American Airlines to ask whether they sold lifetime flight passes. They did.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Alex Brooker</dc:creator>
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      <category>Offline First Architecture</category>
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      <description>Somewhere above Chinese airspace, a passenger asks for a glass of water and the answer, technically, is no.</description>
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      <title>From Workshop Transcript to AI Opportunity Map</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Turn a client workshop transcript into a defensible AI opportunity map — use cases, the roles that own them, data needs with update cadence, and an honest EASA compliance read — grounded in the Airside Labs aviation-tools MCP server. With the real tool calls and responses.</description>
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      <title>Give Your Ops AI Agent Aviation Lookups It Won&apos;t Hallucinate</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Add authoritative aviation identity and reference lookups to your existing ops AI agent via MCP — airports, airlines, aircraft, registrations and flight identifiers resolved with temporal validity, provenance, and the good sense to decline rather than guess. With the real tool calls.</description>
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      <title>Corp Travel …So Why Can&apos;t I Just Book My Own Trip?</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <category>Traveler Dual Identity</category>
      <description>Caitlin Gomez signs up for rideshare with her personal Gmail, like everyone else. Somewhere in a corporate travel program she is also a Head of Growth on the speaking circuit, and nothing in the…</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Alex Brooker</dc:creator>
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      <category>Airline Cart Abandonment</category>
      <category>Identity &amp; Checkout Layer</category>
      <description>Kameron Bertine has never worked for an airline, an OTA, or a GDS, and that&apos;s exactly why his read on airline checkout is worth your time.</description>
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      <title>The Feedback You Don&apos;t Notice You&apos;re Getting</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Alex Brooker</dc:creator>
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      <category>Kind Not Nice</category>
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      <description>This week I handed the microphone to the two people who know exactly where the bodies are buried: Adrian McKenzie and Oli Deakin, my leadership team colleagues from Snowflake Software (in its second…</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Alex Brooker</dc:creator>
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      <category>Airline Tech Stacks</category>
      <category>Fuel Price Risk</category>
      <description>There&apos;s a moment in this conversation where my guest compares running an airline to selling hamburgers: your meat costs triple overnight, but you can&apos;t triple your menu price on the same day.</description>
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      <title>Nobody Would Fund a Human for This</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Alex Brooker</dc:creator>
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      <category>AI Phone Calling</category>
      <category>Hotel Booking Gaps</category>
      <description>I&apos;ve now recorded enough of these conversations that I stopped believing in coincidence. Four founders, none of whom have met each other, working in hotel distribution, airport maintenance, call…</description>
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      <title>Fly First, Regulate Later: Why Europe&apos;s Rules Are Pushing Drones Abroad</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Alex Brooker</dc:creator>
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      <category>Drone Regulation Gaps</category>
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      <description>Julie Garland started as an aircraft maintenance engineer on Aer Lingus heavy checks, went on to fly as a commercial captain, then qualified as a barrister specializing in aviation law before…</description>
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      <title>The Real AI Bottleneck in Travel Content Is Copyright, Not Hallucination</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Alex Brooker</dc:creator>
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      <category>AI Content Licensing</category>
      <category>Cruise Documentation Complexity</category>
      <description>There&apos;s a moment in this conversation where my guest says, flatly, &quot;we were selling masks.&quot; He&apos;s not talking about PPE.</description>
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      <title>Top Aviation AI Startups Building the Future of Flight in 2026</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Airside Labs Team</dc:creator>
      <category>Analysis</category>
      <description>An honest, sourced map of the startups building aviation AI in 2026 — flight operations, cockpit copilots, autonomy, and the truth about aviation foundation models — plus the independent assurance layer that proves these systems are safe.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>A field guide to the platforms and benchmarks for evaluating aviation AI in 2026 — domain-specific benchmarks, general eval platforms, security firms, and consultancies — and how to choose the right one for your use case.</description>
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      <title>Travel Inspiration Lives on TikTok. The Booking Still Lives in 47 Browser Tabs.</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Alex Brooker</dc:creator>
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      <category>Social Travel Discovery</category>
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      <description>A friend who has actually been somewhere will always beat an algorithm that has indexed everywhere. That is not a sentimental observation.</description>
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      <title>Computer Says No: Why Airlines Won&apos;t Take Your Upgrade Money</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Alex Brooker</dc:creator>
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      <category>NDC Servicing Gaps</category>
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      <description>A friend of Ann Cederhall&apos;s wanted to pay out of her own pocket to upgrade from economy to business. She opened the airline app at the airport. The system said no. Not &quot;unavailable.&quot; Not &quot;sold out.&quot;</description>
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      <title>Abundance of Competence, Scarcity of Trust</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Alex Brooker</dc:creator>
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      <description>The UK government&apos;s AI Scenarios 2030 models how AI&apos;s gains get divided, yet not how cheap competence grows the pie, or why, when everything starts to look good, trust and permission become the only scarce goods.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Alex Brooker</dc:creator>
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      <category>AI Agent Security</category>
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      <description>There&apos;s a moment in this week&apos;s episode that I keep thinking about. Yagub Rahimov, a founder who spends his days mapping enterprise AI vulnerabilities, described standing in a crowded airport…</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Alex Brooker</dc:creator>
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      <category>Travel Tech Complexity</category>
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      <description>Most AI pitches in travel come from people who have never had to file a rooming list. Alex Ragin has.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Alex Brooker</dc:creator>
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      <category>Sustainable Materials</category>
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      <description>I&apos;ve wanted to get a genuine sustainability entrepreneur on this show for a while. Not someone pitching net zero commitments or SAF roadmaps, but someone who has spent twenty years in the trenches…</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Alex Brooker</dc:creator>
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      <category>Hotel Distribution</category>
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      <description>I&apos;ve been wanting to dig into the data plumbing underneath travel distribution for a while. One of our previous episodes, about a fake hotel site that successfully captured real bookings and left…</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Alex Brooker</dc:creator>
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      <category>Conversational Travel Search</category>
      <category>OTA Economics</category>
      <description>I&apos;ve wanted to get a solo founder building an AI-native travel product onto the show for a while. Not a team with VC backing and a GDS contract; someone who spotted a structural problem in how travel…</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Alex Brooker</dc:creator>
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      <category>Airline Distribution</category>
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      <description>I&apos;ve covered AI and legacy systems on this podcast before, but I&apos;d never asked someone who actually lives inside the distribution layer to explain how it works, and why it&apos;s such a challenge.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Alex Brooker</dc:creator>
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      <description>The most useful conversations in this industry happen off the main stage with people who&apos;ve been inside the plumbing long enough to know where the real problems are buried.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Alex Brooker</dc:creator>
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      <category>AI Software Quality</category>
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      <description>Software development is entering a phase where the cost of generating code has collapsed, but the cost of verifying it has not.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Alex Brooker</dc:creator>
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      <description>In this episode, I sit down with Ian Painter, Oli Deakin, and Adrian McKenzie, who bring deep experience across aviation data platforms and enterprise engineering leadership.</description>
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      <category>Barcode Technology</category>
      <description>In this episode, Eric Leopold draws on 15 years at IATA and his role in shaping standards such as barcode boarding passes, airline distribution APIs, and industry data models to explain how aviation…</description>
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      <category>Podcast</category>
      <category>Airport Economics</category>
      <category>Non-Aeronautical Revenue</category>
      <description>In this episode, I sit down with Professor Achim Czerny of Hong Kong Polytechnic University, a leading airport economics scholar and active contributor to major aviation research societies, to…</description>
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      <category>Airport Operations</category>
      <category>Legacy Systems</category>
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      <category>Drone Traffic Management</category>
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      <category>AI Bubble</category>
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      <description>In this episode, I chat with Ian Painter, Oliver Deakin, and Adrian McKenzie, all of whom I had the pleasure of working with at Snowflake Software.</description>
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      <description>A comprehensive analysis of two pioneering aviation LLM assurance benchmarks, examining how Airside Labs&apos; Pre-Flight and MITRE/FAA&apos;s ALUE address distinct operational layers in aerospace AI safety.</description>
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