“You share patterns, not passengers”: Ioan Profiroiu on building a shared fraud defense for aviation
Banks learned years ago that fraud is easier to stop together than alone. Aviation is only now catching up. A single trip can involve an airline, a partner carrier, a travel agency, a payment provider and an airport, often across several countries and legal systems, and each of them sees only a slice of what’s happening. A pattern that looks almost normal to one airline can be obvious once several of them compare notes. The challenge is doing that without exposing passenger data or giving away competitive information.
“Things become the default when the easy path and the trusted path are the same path”: Theodor Dimache on digital identity, AI agents and air travel
Airlines have spent years proving that wallet-based digital identity can work: a credential issued by one party, read and trusted by another, across airlines, airports and wallet providers. The next question is harder. As AI travel assistants start booking on behalf of travelers, how does an airline know the person behind the request is real, has consented, and is paying? And how do identity and payment come together in one step without the assistant ever handling a passport or a card number?