The Inevitable Billion-Pound Cheque
For airline executives, this is a nightmare. For us, it’s a signal. The days of treating IT as a dreary back-office cost are over. It is now a matter of survival. The reputational damage and financial haemorrhage from these outages are simply too great to ignore. We are, I believe, at the very beginning of a massive, multi-year spending spree as the entire aviation industry is forced to modernise its digital backbone.
This isn't discretionary spending they can postpone if the economy takes a turn. This is essential, defensive investment. Think of it as finally fixing a leaky roof after it’s already ruined the furniture. The scramble is on to move to the cloud, bolster cybersecurity, and build the kind of resilient systems that should have been in place a decade ago.