Innovaciones

📍 Iberia launched an action plan to ease travel from Madrid to Valencia due to DANA impacts, adding two extra flights alongside regular Air Nostrum operations. This will last at least until November 10. The group also capped tourist class prices at €99 per flight.

🌎 Deep Blue Aerospace from China sold two space travel tickets for $140,000 each (1 million yuan) on Taobao. It's a promotional price, 35% lower than future pricing, aiming to stimulate interest and advertise. The country's maiden space journey is set for no earlier than 2028. Competitors charge more: Iwaya Giken at $180,000, Richard Branson at $450,000, and Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin at $200,000. The trip offers a 12-minute flight with 5 minutes of zero gravity at around 100 kilometers altitude.

🎃 Weeks before Halloween, hotel guests devoured a dinner service, including cocktails, pumpkin cakes, and bat pie. The headwaiter, burdened with manually closing cash and extracting individual invoices daily, developed calluses on his fingers. One night, overwhelmed by the outdated system, the register began printing non-stop, trapping him in a cascade of receipts, whispering the "curse of eternal invoices." Morning revealed him as a mummy clutching a piece of advice: switch to Noray POS.

✈️ Iberia received the world's first A321XLR from Airbus, as part of an eight-unit purchase. Marco Sansavini, CEO of Iberia, highlights the aircraft's capabilities for new destinations and transoceanic routes. The A321XLR features a two-class, 182-passenger configuration and Airspace cabin for long-haul comfort, offering 60% more cabin luggage space. With a range of up to 4,700 nautical miles (8,700 km), the A321XLR promises a 30% reduction in fuel consumption per seat compared to previous generations and has accumulated over 500 orders.

📊 On October 30, 2024, Zucchetti Spain discussed AI in corporate restaurant management, highlighting its efficiency in food and dish recognition to speed up checkout lines. AI algorithms and computer vision enable systems like visioncheckout to identify dishes, calculate payments, and offer contactless transactions, reducing queue times and improving inventory management. These AI-based Point of Sale (POS) solutions, integrated with TCPOS, help optimize processes, reduce food waste, and enhance user experience.

🏨 On October 29, 2024, in Palma de Mallorca, Hotelverse and EISI SOFT launched EISIVerse, a digital twin platform that transforms hotel management. Initially, 4,286 rooms from prestigious international organizations joined as early adopters. EISIVerse enables real-time visualization of hotel facilities, optimizes energy and water resources, improves customer experience, and ensures compliance with environmental regulations. Hotelverse's technology integrates with EISI HOTEL, which manages over 250,000 rooms globally. EISIVerse benefits include resource optimization, proactive management, predictive maintenance, and personalized guest services. CEOs Fermín Carmona of Hotelverse and Xavier López of EISI SOFT highlighted the project's role in starting a new era of operational excellence in the hotel industry. Further presentations will occur at FITUR 2025.

💻 On October 29, 2024, advancements in technology are highlighted for transforming industrial processes, with Production Managers using real-time software to monitor key machine and production plant indicators. These tools help optimize demand planning and resource utilization in the industry. Industrial ERP plays a crucial role in performance control and supervision process improvement. The software enables real-time monitoring of processes, predictive maintenance based on data, and efficient information flow across departments. Zucchetti Spain offers ERP and MES solutions to enhance productivity and competitive advantage in industries.

🏢 HP and Absotec have collaborated to create PET Impreso, a sustainable acoustic absorption solution. The product, made from recycled plastic bottles, employs HP Latex technology, which uses water-based, non-hazardous inks. PET Impreso boasts high-quality design customization, contributing to both acoustic well-being and interior aesthetics. The technology will be showcased at the COAM on November 8 and the Interihotel fair at IFEMA, Madrid, from November 19-21.

✈️ On a recent Tuesday, Qatar Airways' first Boeing 777 equipped with Elon Musk's Starlink system flew from Doha to London, offering free mobile phone connectivity. Air France, United, Turkish, Delta, and Swiss have contracted with Starlink, expecting widespread connectivity by the end of 2025. This year, 12 Qatar 777s will be equipped, with A380s and A350s to follow next year. Low-cost carriers like Ryanair may not prioritize this service soon.

🚘 Feneval, the national car rental business federation, is concerned about the administrative costs of the upcoming Real Decreto 933/2021, set for December 2, which imposes new data recording and processing requirements on rental companies, mostly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). A survey by Feneval showed 60% of members struggling with the platform, claiming data entry issues. The government's response to an approved partial motion to suspend the decree's implementation is pending.