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August 11, 2008
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8 Tricks to Beat Airport Delays These Web sites and flight tracking tools will help you get a leg up on other passengers and avoid getting stranded.   |
Search Engine Watch
January 13, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Google, Yahoo Add New Search Features Both Google and Yahoo have added new features designed to make it easier to find and track certain types of information that was previously difficult to find with a search engine. |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2006
Chris Sherman |
Search Tools for Air Travelers If you're planning to fly somewhere, these sites can enhance and supplement your experiences with online travel search engines. |
InsideFlyer
August 2009 |
Tripit Pro TripIt has introduced a paid version of the Web travel tracking service. |
PC Magazine
January 1, 2008
John Brandon |
Mobile Search Tips Find where you're going fast with these helpful mobile search engines. |
CRM
January 2013
Marshall Lager |
Flying Colors? Consider what your flight attendants can control before giving them attitude. Airline travel makes me think about customer experience. |
Search Engine Watch
August 8, 2005
Gary Price |
Real-Time Transportation Finders Looking for the next bus, train, taxi or other mode of transportation? These tools can help you find public transportation in your own neighborhood. |
Salon.com
July 28, 2000
Elliott Neal Hester |
Out of the Blue Lies in the sky: An inside look at United Airlines' abysmal service. |
PC Magazine
December 9, 2003
Alan Cohen |
Checking the Flight Line RLM Software has an eclectic group of customers: airlines, airports, rental car companies, travel sites, and neurotic mothers. Indeed, anyone who has ever tracked an aircraft online -- checking its mile-by-mile journey from departure to arrival -- has probably used the company's technology. |
InsideFlyer
March 2014 |
Letters to the Editor United Award Trip Woes... M&C Loyalty Club Status Match... Flight Delay Fantasy... |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 31, 2011
Julia Hanna |
Improving Fairness in Flight Delays Airlines and the FAA don't like flight delays any more than passengers, but what's to be done? Researchers propose a "fairness" system that could save travelers time and service providers millions of dollars annually. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Tech Glitches Ground United Airlines Flights Nationwide Domestic departures were delayed more than a half hour because of what appears to be incorrect "dispatching information" in the airline's computer systems. |
PC Magazine
October 28, 2003
Alfred Poor |
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 Microsoft commemorates the Wright brothers' first flight 100 years ago with Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight. You can pilot 20 historic flights, including the Wright Flyer's first launch and the first airmail route. |
InternetNews
January 12, 2004
Michael Singer |
New Google Shortcuts Tie Into Paid Listings The search engine launches five new tools based on public databases, but expect the bidding wars to intensify. |
InternetNews
March 30, 2009
Stuart J. Johnston |
Your Next Live Search Destination: Flight Status As Microsoft works to beef up its Live Search offering, it introduces Active Answers. |
InsideFlyer
October 2014 |
Airline Loyalty Anyone? A recent poll conducted by TheStreet found that 63 percent of Americans do not have an airline they prefer to fly. |
Search Engine Watch
May 5, 2004
Gary Price |
More Yahoo Search Shortcuts Yahoo has rolled out several new search shortcuts, continuing the trend also in play at Google and Ask Jeeves to make ready reference information even easier to find. |
InsideFlyer
January 2014 |
60 Seconds with Matteo Sarzana, CEO & Founder, avionerd.com Avionerd is a new mobile app with the goal to connect frequent flyers who have elite status with other travelers so that the elite members can share their status privileges with the not so frequent flyers. |
Search Engine Watch
April 18, 2005
Gary Price |
A Roundup of Local Mobile Search Tools Google's new local search for mobile devices is garnering a lot of press, but there are a lot of other alternatives that are worth a look. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Flight Delayed Again? The Hub's the Rub New research shows that most of the delays due to air-traffic congestion are evidence of trade-offs made by an air travel system in which passengers get something in return for congestion -- more frequent service to a greater number of destinations... |
CIO
March 1, 2004 |
Turn Off That Phone! - Airline Safety Flight navigation disrupted. Instrument readings corrupted. Cockpit radio communications confused. All because some people didn't turn off their mobile phones. |
Popular Mechanics
November 23, 2009
Matt Molnar |
Airbus A380 Completes First Commercial Europe-U.S. Flight Air France on Friday became the first European airline to operate the double-decker Airbus A380 in commercial service, completing its inaugural flight from Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris to John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. |
The Motley Fool
April 5, 2011
Tim Beyers |
Southwest Airlines Will Still Beat the Market But earning outsized returns may take longer than expected. |
The Motley Fool
November 16, 2006
John Dutemple |
A Modest Proposal for Airlines An open letter to all airline CEOs. As the major airlines plan to consolidate once again, here are suggestions on how to run them right. |
Popular Mechanics
August 2007
Barbara S. Peterson |
End of Flight Delays? FAA's GPS Fix Could Bust Sky Gridlock The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been quietly using Alaska as a testbed for technologies that could radically transform the nation's antiquated air traffic control (ATC) system from ground-based radar to space-based GPS. |
Popular Mechanics
November 21, 2007 |
Inside the FAA's Plan for Cellphones to Fix Holiday Air Travel The Federal Aviation Administration recently awarded a contract to ITT Corporation to lay the groundwork for NextGen, an overhaul of the country's overloaded air traffic control system from aging radar towers to GPS. |
InsideFlyer
May 2012 |
Lufthansa Miles and More Changes Effective Sept. 1, 2012, Senator status will require 100,000 status miles for Germans and non-Germans alike. |
CIO
September 14, 2012
Kim S. Nash |
Tablets for Flight Attendants on American Airlines In an effort to get closer to customers and improve sales, American Airlines is launching a new mobile strategy aimed at boosting customer loyalty by giving flight attendants tablets loaded with customer data. |
Salon.com
May 31, 2000
J A. Getzlaff |
Sexual harassment in the skies Frustrated passenger groped flight attendants |
InsideFlyer
July 2011 |
UA and CO As United and Continental continue toward their merger, customers can now shop for flights, obtain seat assignments and check their flight status on united.com or continental.com when traveling on either airline. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2008
Tekla S. Perry |
Airlines: Got Fuel? Airlines are now putting the minimum amount of fuel in planes necessary to reach their destination, but are they underestimating the amount they need? |
InsideFlyer
October 2008 |
Blurring the Lines of Loyalty Starwood Preferred Guest is blurring the lines between hotel and airline loyalty programs. Hotel points? Award flights? |
InsideFlyer
November 2012 |
Air Canada Altitude Air Canada is revamping its elite program and adding two new tiers to the Top Tier program, which will be renamed Altitude next year. |
DailyCandy
October 16, 2004 |
Travel: You So Fly Ready to earn your wings? Take an introductory flight with a certificated instructor at your local flight school or airport; then follow the AOPA's tips for getting started. |
Inc.
March 2004
Norm Brodsky |
Street Smarts: Learning From JetBlue One day flying JetBlue, I found myself being served by David Neeleman, the airline's founder. When was the last time you met your customers and asked how you could better serve them? |
InsideFlyer
August 2007 |
Flyer Survey Majority of customers are satisfied by ability to redeem miles, but also expressed negative opinions about mileage expiration restrictions. |
InsideFlyer
January 2013 |
SAS Upgrades SAS EuroBonus members can now use points for confirmed flight upgrades booked from Economy Extra to business class up to 24 hours prior to flight departure for a maximum two flights and up to four passengers upgraded in one reservation. |
Popular Mechanics
December 20, 2007
Erin Scottberg |
Anatomy of Lost Luggage: How to Track Your Bags (and Save 'Em) Find out how luggage gets lost -- and what you can do to minimize the risk. |
The Motley Fool
September 14, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Google Finally Takes Off The leading search engine finally shows its travel swagger. |
The Motley Fool
October 6, 2004
Jeff Hwang |
Rough September at JetBlue Despite the lower report, the stock is up slightly today, as the news was as expected. |
InsideFlyer
April 2009 |
Delta and Cincinnati Delta is enticing members to fly into or out of its Cincinnati hub by offering up to 25,000 bonus miles on roundtrip nonstop flights completed by May 12, 2009. |
The Motley Fool
May 31, 2007
Tim Beyers |
Quick Take: Bankruptcy Grounded at Northwest The airline exits bankruptcy on a new deal with its flight attendants. |
BusinessWeek
January 27, 2011
John Hughes |
Stuck on the Tarmac: Satellite Navigation The FAA may soon ask outside companies to help speed up adoption of a next-generation satellite navigation system. |
InsideFlyer
May 2011 |
Miles & More Bonus With the Miles & More Bonus Promotion, members residing in Germany can earn additional rewards when flying Miles & More airlines. |
Popular Mechanics
December 15, 2009
Matt Molnar |
Boeing 787 Dreamliner Finally Gets Off the Ground Boeing today sent its new 787 Dreamliner on her maiden test flight, marking the first time a mostly composite airliner has taken to the air. |
Reason
July 2008
Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Open Skies Airline deregulation isn't very sexy, but trips to Paris are. Thanks to the former, the latter are about to become a lot easier and cheaper. |
InsideFlyer
November 2012 |
Spirit Airlines Adds Online Award Booking Fourteen years after the first airline, Northwest Airlines, introduced online award booking for members, Spirit Airlines has finally announced that FREE SPIRIT members can search for and book award tickets online. |
InsideFlyer
March 2007 |
Low-Fare Airlines Conquer the World A look at the new low-fare carriers in countries outside the Americas, and more specifically, their relation to frequent flyer programs. |
Fast Company
February 2011
Luke O'Brien |
Travel Search Gets Convenient With Hipmunk On the cusp of Kayak's IPO, Hipmunk, the next to disrupt the domestic travel market, is taxiing and poised for flight. |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2004
Greg R. Notess |
On The Net - Search Engine Prefixes and Shortcuts An online searcher offers tips and practical advice on efficient and effective online searching using shortcuts and prefixes. |
