Luke Mooney knows the airline industry. A chartered accountant by profession who spent many years in investment banking and corporate finance, he was chairman of the nascent CityJet from 1992 until 1995. The experience left a mark. He became aware, to use his own words, that “flight revenue performance data was inadequate and too slow to inform commercial decision-making by airline management”.  Mooney decided to set up an aviation analytics platform that would deliver sales and revenue data in real time. The result was the Dublin-based Planitas Airline Systems Limited. Incorporated in 2001, the business has been steadily profitable with 12…

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