American Airlines in May will begin to charge coach passengers $8 for a pillow and blanket set, according to USA Today.
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The Big Chill: American Airlines to charge $8 for blankets and pillows
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HomeAway gets huge thumbs up for online strategic support for Super Bowl ad
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The debut Super Bowl ad for the US Super Bowl last night has won the praise of a marketing monitoring firm.
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Google Maps provides more latitude for trip-planners with Nearby Places
Posted by Dennis Schaal on February 8, 2010
Google Maps broadened its features with the introduction of "Nearby places you might like," solidifying its role as a vehicle to plan your hotel stay, dining experience or activity.
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Cap and rave: GuestCentric Systems offers ceiling on booking engine, social media tools
Posted by Dennis Schaal on February 8, 2010
GuestCentric Systems, finding that some prospective clients were unwilling to pay fixed monthly costs for its hotel-booking engine, implemented a new revenue-share pricing system.
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GAP Adventures turn for dream job-picture-trip online competition
Posted by Kevin May on February 8, 2010
GAP Adventures is the latest in what is becoming an increasingly long line of travel companies to turn to online competitions to raise their profile.
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Travelzoo heads email charts, admits figures not fully representative
Posted by Kevin May on February 8, 2010
Deals publisher Travelzoo is understandably showing off some data this week that illustrates its position at the top of a chart of travel firms who receive traffic from user emails.
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Look what WAYN online travel network is up to now – dating product to launch this week
Posted by Kevin May on February 8, 2010
Love is in the air at WAYN as it appears the travel social network is planning to unveil a dating service on St Valentine's Day.
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HotelsCombined adds TUI and HRS to European partners
Posted by Kevin May on February 8, 2010
Hotelopia and Hotel Reservation Service have joined the HotelsCombined metasearch engine roster of European brands spearheading its growth across the continent.
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Super Bowl ads: Homeaway yes, Google probably, Kayak no
Posted by Dennis Schaal on February 7, 2010
All of the excitement leading up to tonight's Super Bowl has little to do with the gridiron and much to do with the advertisements.
Thus, John Battelle's Searchblog reports that Google will break longstanding tradition and run a TV advertisement during tonight's Super Bowl.
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The Week in Travel Tech – January 31 to February 6 2010
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Tripology CEO speaks – but will not discuss old investor Markus Deutsch
Posted by Kevin May on February 6, 2010
John Peters, CEO of under-pressure agent-lead service Tripology, has broken his silence after a difficult week for the New York-based company.
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New Orleans, smitten with Mardi Gras, edges Vegas in Priceline Valentine
Posted by Dennis Schaal on February 5, 2010
Priceline.com took a sampling of more than 30,000 Name-Your-Own Price bids and found that downtown New Orleans was the most-sought after destination for the upcoming long weekend, Feb. 12-15, which includes Valentine's Day Feb. 14 and Presidents' Day Feb. 15.
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Yahoo patents new mobile ad technology to work out where the user is travelling
Posted by Kevin May on February 5, 2010
There is so much focus on Google and Apple in the mobile phone market that it may come as a surprise to hear that Yahoo is the tech firm knocking on the door of the patent office.
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Jilted by JetBlue for Sabre, Navitaire strikes back
Posted by Dennis Schaal on February 5, 2010
While much of the attention in JetBlue's cutover to the SabreSonic CSS as the airline's reservations system provider has focused on new functionalities, Navitaire, the company that JetBlue largely discarded after a decade-old relationship, feels there are misperceptions about its capabilities and believes that the "true winner" in the conversion likely will be Sabre -- and not necessarily JetBlue.
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Four travel-related domain name sales fetched $4.5 million in 2009
Posted by Kevin May on February 5, 2010
Sales of domains Fly.com, Russia.com, America.com and Brazil.com were among the top ten highest valued URLs in 2009 as travel and geography-related sites showed a rise in popularity with buyers.
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