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Category: Travel Business
The Beauty of Airport Runways
Check out the blog Holding Pattern to see the beauty of airport runways.
Google Hotels balances speed with accuracy
Tnooz has an article describing Google’s need to balance speed with accurate pricing data in it’s integration of hotel rates within Google Maps. This tool is designed to rapidly engage a Google Maps user with hotel pricing. Google has chosen to use cached rates with no live inventory searches In order to ensure the speed…… Continue reading Google Hotels balances speed with accuracy
Tnooz: Be careful when volunteering for oversold flights
American has been fined $90,000 due to failure to disclose the true cost of using vouchers they give away at the station. Appears that these vouchers couldn’t be redeemed online – only over the phone with a fee. Read more at Tnooz http://www.tnooz.com/2011/03/08/news/american-airlines-fined-over-lack-of-transparency-on-overbooked-flights
Why are airline fees so similar?
The AP has an article into the ongoing investigation into price fixing amongst 21 Airlines. No US airlines have been identified as being part of the alleged collusion. http://www.npr.org/2011/03/06/134309983/21-airlines-fined-for-fixing-passenger-cargo-fees?ft=1&f=#fb