The Big Chill: American Airlines to charge $8 for blankets and pillows

The Big Chill: American Airlines to charge $8 for blankets and pillows The Big Chill: American Airlines to charge $8 for blankets and pillows

HomeAway gets huge thumbs up for online strategic support for Super Bowl ad

HomeAway gets huge thumbs up for online strategic support for Super Bowl ad HomeAway gets huge thumbs up for online strategic support for Super Bowl ad

Google Maps provides more latitude for trip-planners with Nearby Places

Google Maps provides more latitude for trip-planners with Nearby Places Google Maps provides more latitude for trip-planners with Nearby Places

Cap and rave: GuestCentric Systems offers ceiling on booking engine, social media tools

Cap and rave: GuestCentric Systems offers ceiling on booking engine, social media tools Cap and rave: GuestCentric Systems offers ceiling on booking engine, social media tools

The Big Chill: American Airlines to charge $8 for blankets and pillows

The Big Chill: American Airlines to charge $8 for blankets and pillows

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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HomeAway gets huge thumbs up for online strategic support for Super Bowl ad

HomeAway gets huge thumbs up for online strategic support for Super Bowl ad

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

Google Maps provides more latitude for trip-planners with Nearby Places

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

Cap and rave: GuestCentric Systems offers ceiling on booking engine, social media tools

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

GAP Adventures turn for dream job-picture-trip online competition

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

Travelzoo heads email charts, admits figures not fully representative

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

Look what WAYN online travel network is up to now – dating product to launch this week

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

HotelsCombined adds TUI and HRS to European partners

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

Super Bowl ads: Homeaway yes, Google probably, Kayak no

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

The Week in Travel Tech – January 31 to February 6 2010

What you missed on Tnooz this week, Sunday 31 January to Saturday 6 February 2010.

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Tripology CEO speaks – but will not discuss old investor Markus Deutsch

Tripology CEO speaks – but will not discuss old investor Markus Deutsch

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

New Orleans, smitten with Mardi Gras, edges Vegas in Priceline Valentine

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

Yahoo patents new mobile ad technology to work out where the user is travelling

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

Jilted by JetBlue for Sabre, Navitaire strikes back

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

Four travel-related domain name sales fetched $4.5 million in 2009

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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