First generation caches were about cutting cost – and travel sellers tolerated low levels of accuracy to make savings.
In travel shopping, forget the Customer Is King mantra – caching is the new monarch
April 30, 2013 By 4 Comments
Emirates becomes latest airline to tee up activities and inspiration as part of trip search
April 23, 2013 By 1 Comment
Over three years on from Lufthansa and two years after British Airways, Emirates is trying to change the way people search for flights, based on what passengers might do in a destination.
Applying some Googlezon magic dust to airline retailing
April 15, 2013 By 37 Comments
Gather a bunch of airline bosses in a room and ask them what they want from technology – the answer doesn’t seem like rocket science
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Lufthansa picks Vayant to help with dynamic packaging distribution
April 2, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Landmark deal for Vayant after Lufthansa, one of Europe’s largest carriers, selected the tech company’s caching system to boost distribution to tour operators and consolidators in Central Europe.
The Scan: VirtualTourist seeks 8th Wonder, Knok raises, Cleartrip’s app and more travel technology news
March 28, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Virtual Tourist, Apple-WifiSlam, Cleartrip, United Airlines, Lufthansa, Monarch Airlines, Knok, Comcast Business Hospitality, Hotwire, Dolphin Dynamics, TigerBay, Egencia, Concur and InterContinental Hotels Group all make our round up of travel tech news
Social media is dead – airline marketing in 2013 all about connected travellers and the real world
December 28, 2012 By 10 Comments
Let’s face it – social media is dead. There are over 200 airlines on Twitter today, for example, and the space is cluttered.
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EasyJet goes down the inspiration route for flight search
October 2, 2012 By 1 Comment
Whether anyone uses the tools or not in the long run, airlines are at least trying to give customers a different way of looking for flights – with EasyJet unveiling its Inspire Me platform this week.
The Scan: Kayak faces risks, Lufthansa wins in court, Qantas falters, and more travel news
August 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
BusinessWeek assesses the risks for Kayak, Lufthansa wins a US federal court judgment over its WiFi technology, Qantas post its first loss in 17 years, and more items in our roundup of the stories that are making news and driving opinion on 22 August.
Pilots love Apple iPads, flight-planning apps like ForeFlight, and air-streaming in-flight entertainment
August 15, 2012 By 12 Comments
Apple’s iPad has created the biggest shift in the way pilots fly airplanes since the birth of the jet engine and the biggest change in in-flight entertainment since the first movie screens.
TripAdvisor partners with airlines to incentivize hotel reviews
May 1, 2012 By 13 Comments
TripAdvisor has partnered with airlines, including Lufthansa in Germany and Jet Airways in India, to hand out airline miles in exchange for hotel reviews.
