Morning Scan: Hotels.com re-ups with EPAM, the WaveRider scramjets, Ikea will build hotels, and more travel tech news

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Israel restores its hotel ratings system, 18 hikers get into trouble with their smartphones while hiking in Scotland, and other travel tech news that Tnooz is following for 15 August.

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Travel Tech Scan: TRX sews up Boeing’s corporate travel, HolidayCheck soars, and other news

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TRX expands its hold on Boeing’s corporate travel department, Germany’s under-the-radar booking engine HolidayCheck soars, and other news stories on August 8.

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Which was the only company to apply for a .FLY domain?

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With lots of talk in recent months about a bonanza of new domain name extensions being made available to anyone, perhaps more than one company would’ve bid for .FLY this week.

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Airliners of the future may fly in formation to save power

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Not something you’re likely to see on the approaches to LAX, Heathrow, Schiphol or Changi, but in years to come aircraft may fly in formation at altitude.

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Virgin Atlantic steels itself for new biofuel project

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Within the next two to three years, Virgin Atlantic’s aircraft flying London Heathrow to Shanghai and Delhi routes could be using low-carbon aviation fuel crafted from waste gases in steel production.

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Extreme airline travel technology, starring the iPad

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Last week, Evan Konwiser wrote about the wider impact on the travel industry following the official delivery of first Boeing 787 mid-size airliner to ANA.

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Why the arrival of the Dreamliner affects every part of the industry

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You will not notice it by searching on Expedia (or Google, for that matter) or checking-in at your favorite hotel, or even boarding a flight, but the travel world changed this week.

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Airbus and the green aircraft of the future – possible, probably or just puff?

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Airbus made a big deal at the recent Farnborough show as it presented concepts of a plane in 40 years time. So here’s a thought. Why not implement some of it now…

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