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As part of a new social history series presented by Melvyn Bragg, the BBC would like to hear from people who worked in the package holiday i...

AA GAG order comes off May 15th. More specific data on US OTA declines in air sales in first quarter become available. Some players are down...

Chris Kroeger, Sabre's pointman in the battle with AA - has started their campaign to get the agencies to start pushing Agencies world w...

So despite being told point blank by the DoT that they do not want to regulate Ancillary Services by the GDS, ASTA and BTC persist in their ...

At the Open Travel Advisory meeting in Las Vegas this past week Henry Harteveldt from Forrester showed that Q1 numbers were down 1.6% in ter...

Starring Steve Jobs and Larry Page as the evil villains. With Cameo roles by just about everybody. This major disaster movie should rival ep...

So this is just two pictures - is this a trend?

I am not in favour of personal attacks on anyone. However, I feel somewhat obliged to defend the honour of the blogger community against per...

OK I did say that I thought this would come out in the end and that March would be the tell tale month for the online agencies. Have a look ...

In today's ever transparent world, lying is clearly not a good thing. You WILL be found out. However advertising is full of spin and inn...

When Google was trying to get approval for the ITA acquisition. I opined that there was little that the DoJ could invoke to prevent the merg...

Sabre and Travelport - both private companies - have become the target of 2 lawsuits alleging Anti Trust behavior by AMR's American Airl...

In the web world - there is often an argument of change for change sake Hey because the web changes so quickly you need your website to chan...

I learned yesterday that Elizabeth Sladen had died. Here is a great tribute include the video of her exit from the show. She was the archet...

I was playing with the stock of the big 3 public OTAs and the 4 largest airlines to compare their stock performance over the past 6 months. ...

Many people are looking at Facebook as if it is the second (or 3rd) coming. But when you get to the real metrics you have to strip away some...

An interesting report from the ELFAA and York Aviation titled European Low Fares Airline Association: Forecasting the Market Share of Low Fa...

The numbers are in for 2010. Here is the analysis from eMarketer . Online banner ads did surprisingly well. But looking below the numbers an...

If you go on eBay and type "Sonic Cruiser" you will find a number of models of the ill fated Boeing Sonic Cruiser. Probably one of...