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As expected American Airlines has petitioned the court in its Chapter 11 pleadings to pay its obligations to the distribution channels . ...

With declining revenues from airlines and a falling marketshare the legacy GDS model has been under threat from a number of sources of late...

From our friends over at Crossman Communications there is a new survey out. They were interested to see how global and local economies are ...

Dear Colleagues, You can upload your papers for the WSEAS/NAUN conferences ( Vouliagmeni Beach, Athens, Greece, March 7-9, 2012 (Sponsore...

Regular readers and followers of the Professor's Wisdom knows that I am not a fan of the aggregated P2P accomodation business of Airb...

It seems that there has been a bit of a storm in a teacup going on in South Africa. Travelstart the local OTA there commissioned a surve...

When will the ever learn? When will they ever learn.... lines from that old Pete Seeger song we all learned in school. When it comes to...

Holy smokes Batman. I was a late convert to Social Media. Mostly because in the early days I could not see the Media part of it. Now I ...

So while Android is doing a great job in working through the pack and like other Google powered monsters - its like PacMan it destroys ev...

Andy Rooney has been a fixture on American TV for more than half a century. The last 33 years as a commentator on 60 Minutes. Last night he...

A great post today by Gerry McGovern . I love his posts because they cause me to think about how thing work and what makes things tick. ...

So Twitter is still struggling to get its revenue model off the ground but it is making headway. In the early days of Twitter I was highly ...

Is 2011 the year of Mobile? This is a question that so many people ask. I have to say I am not quite convinced on either side. In fact I...

The US airlines in general think that the US Dept of Transportation's bean counters are not that good. A cabal of them - representi...

Dear Readers - Just a BIG thank you for keeping us going. We have just passed 2300 posts and counting. I had a wander through some of t...

Most breakups are lets face it less than amicable. People don't just wake up one morning and say "Rationalizing our relationshi...

This is a musing on the impact of the Air Asia and Malaysian Airlines agreement with an extension into the overall issue of exclusivity cla...

Travelport at the 11th hour managed to avoid a pre-packaged Chapter 11 restructuring by getting the approval of all of its Lien Holders ...

OK Own up... how many Apps on your smartphone or Tablet. Full disclosure I have way too many devices. I have 2 smartphones, an iTouch and...

There is a general view that when cargo goes soft - so does passenger traffic in about 4-6 months immediately following. I don't wa...