AIRPLUS / THE FOUNDER
Chris Yang.
A liberal spirit. An open world.
FOUNDER & CEO / AIRPLUSA PERSONAL INTRODUCTION
Independent mind.
Human at heart.
Chris Yang (Yi Yang) founded AIRPLUS in 2018. A liberal spirit with an independent mind, he values the freedom to question, discover and choose your own path. His vision of travel is personal and inclusive: a world to explore without having to leave yourself behind. His experience spans airline distribution, luxury hospitality, hotel sourcing and the technology connecting inventory to travellers. He has worked across procurement, pricing, commercial partnerships and the daily reality of delivering a journey.
His hospitality background includes guest-experience programmes with St. Regis, Ritz-Carlton, EDITION and Virtuoso properties. He brings an industrial engineering education from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and ongoing graduate study in computer science at Georgia Tech to a practical question: how can better systems make travel feel more personal?
TRAVEL / PEOPLE / CONVERSATION
Built through
human connection.
Behind the systems and the strategy, travel remains a business of people. Time around a shared table is part of the AIRPLUS story.
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01 / PERSPECTIVE
The operational perspective.
Chris’s work includes GDS booking workflows across Amadeus, Sabre and Travelport, hotel sourcing and API-connected OTA distribution. He has handled commercial terms, cancellation-policy mapping and operational enablement, linking the economics of travel supply to the experience of the person travelling.
02 / PERSPECTIVE
The technology perspective.
Technology is most useful when it removes repetitive work and improves decisions. Chris has led booking automation and hotel-connectivity product development. With Plus, the next step is AI-assisted exploration grounded in retrieved information, with estimates and sample results clearly labelled.
03 / PERSPECTIVE
The next chapter.
The ambition is better travel with less wasted time, effort and cost. AI helps organise the possibilities; professional judgement, attentive service and local knowledge help turn them into a journey. The AIRPLUS collection and roadbook library make that perspective tangible.
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