The US Airline Pilots Association is engaged in a pitched battle with US Airways over safety issues, including a lack of certain communications equipment on B767s flying to South America.
Priceline adds Kayak hotel booking to its list of concerns
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Priceline has long warned that Google’s and Bing’s “inroads into online travel” loom as potential threats and now it has added Kayak.com hotel bookings as a concern.
TripAdvisor extends flight search to six new countries
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TripAdvisor launches its flight metasearch system outside of the US and UK for the first time today, with Ireland, Canada, France, Italy, Germany and Spain joining in.
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TLabs Showcase – GoScopia
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TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring US-based travel services and transportation platform GoScopia.
Tnooz Nuggets – Mon 9 May 2011
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In today’s edition: Multicom upgrades for international clients, and Oman Air seeks Insight from SITA.
Orbitz replaces Expedia as Eurostar hotel provider
May 9, 2011 By 2 Comments
European high-speed rail provider Eurostar began using Orbitz Worldwide’s private label solution to offer hotels, dynamic packages, car hire and activities on the rail line’s websites.
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US Department of Transportation hands down $175K in fines to online travel sellers
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The U.S. Department of Transportation handed down $175,000 in fines last week to five online travel sellers for failing to properly disclose code-share flights.
How airlines use Twitter – April 2011 [infographic]
May 9, 2011 By 5 Comments
TAM in Brazil is the newly crowned most prolific Tweeting airline on the web but is not the most engaging, according to to data from Eezeer for April 2011.
United Airlines and Amadeus dissolve Altéa contract with $75M payment
May 9, 2011 By 4 Comments
United Airlines and Amadeus officially dissolved their long-stalled contract to migrate the airline’s internal reservations system to the Amadeus Altéa platform from Travelport’s Apollo system.
Making money from tours and activities on the web
May 9, 2011 By 14 Comments
We have all read the buzz around tours and activities recently, spurred in part by a study revealing the vertical is actually bigger than cruise and rental car combined.
