Amadeus study reveals Asia as biggest market for air travel

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Worldwide air traffic volume grew 5% between 2011 and 2012, with Asia being the largest, fastest-growing and most competitive market for air travel.

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AirAsia targets flexible and spontaneous travelers with TripGroupy service

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AirAsia has launched a new service known as TripGroupy, a platform created for travelers who can quickly pack their bags and travel within a week and with friends.

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Imagine what Ryanair could do online if it REALLY cared about user experience and design

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Ryanair is one of the biggest airlines in the world, but one area that has always let it down and annoyed its customers is the online offering.

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Airlines and online retailers in and outside of travel – a golden opportunity?

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Last week I flew on Delta from New York’s JFK back to Seattle, and for the first time experienced the new deal between Delta, Amazon, and Gogo.

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Fill ya boots, screenscapers – Ryanair has removed its reCAPTCHA tool

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Temporarily, anyway. Ryanair made a big thing in late-2011 about its attempts to crack down on metasearch engines scraping content to fill their search results for airlines.

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HotelsCombined insists it will not screen scrape for its new Ryanair deal

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Not the best of starts for Ryanair and new accommodation white label provider HotelsCombined, with the metasearch site moving quickly to clarify comments by Michael O’Leary.

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EasyJet forges exclusive deal with Booking.com

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EasyJet has replaced laterooms.com with booking.com as its exclusive hotel provider just weeks after Ryanair dropped the Priceline-owned accommodation specialist.

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Ryanair attempts to crack down on RyanairPlus, site asks what about everyone else?

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There was about as much chance of RyanairPlus being able to carry on unimpeded as the carrier it is trying to wind up also scrapping bag fees and the infamous cabin crew calendar.

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RyanairPlus – a cheeky attempt to get around the Captcha, but inevitably leading to brand issues

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Many rejoice when low cost carrier Ryanair lands another bout of bad publicity or, more recently, others think of ways of getting around its refusal to work with third partie

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Ash cloud detection technology in tests over Etna, but experts doubt overall impact

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As EasyJet continues testing its ash detection kit over a Sicilian volcano, some experts have raised questions over its use and wider adoption in the airline sector.

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