Mobile phones promise paperless air travel
News Mobile phones could be used to hold digital boarding passes, baggage-tracking information and payment data within the next five years — making travel truly paperless — according to research by air-transport industry IT provider Sita.
[June 23, 2008, 9:10]
Mobile apps changing the future of air travel
News One of the key areas for us, which will be the secret sauce, is making use of context," Peters told the Air Transport IT Summit in Cannes this week. Peters added that there had been a surge of interest in mobile apps for air travellers, fuelled by...
[July 6, 2009, 12:51]
US prevails in air-travel data row
News Despite opposition from the European Parliament, the European Commission has formally decided to declare the transfer of passenger data between the EU and US to be satisfactory. After dialogue and negotiations, the transfer is now in force.
[May 19, 2004, 16:25]
Computer overuse can cause 'e-thrombosis'
News Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) has been associated with long haul air travel, but people who work or play for excessive periods at their PCs are also at risk from blood clots, according to a new report. It may be similar to the situation with the risk...
[January 29, 2003, 11:45]
Travel Widget
Downloads Book air travel and hotels right from this widget. Save on both air fare and hotels in one convenient widget. Utilizes World Choice Travel booking engine, a Travelocity® company.
[March 20, 2006, 6:00]
HSBC begins global TelePresence rollout
News HSBC is on course to make big savings and slash its air travel by millions of miles as it begins a global rollout of Cisco's videoconferencing system, TelePresence. TelePresence will be fitted at nine of the bank's offices worldwide by the end of...
[September 8, 2008, 9:43]
The Ultimate Travel Widget
Downloads Now you can book your Hotels, Air, Cruises, Hotel and Air Packages all in one widget. Air fares are compared with 28 sites. Travel Widgets presents the "Ultimate Travel Widget". The Ultimate Travel widget utilizes World Choice Travel, a Travelocity...
[April 25, 2008, 8:00]
Online businesses feel impact of attack
News Because the Federal Aviation Administration has yet to lift the ban on air traffic, Priceline.com, which gets much of its business from last-minute travellers, has stopped taking new reservations through this Sunday, company spokesman Brian Ek said.
[September 13, 2001, 9:36]
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[June 23, 2006, 15:54]
Airports: Not so Far from the Madding Crowd
Blog Nearly three quarters of the United States air travellers say that their fellow passengers have become more impatient and less polite, according to surveys by a well known travel website. It is understandable that airports across the world are...
[September 17, 2008, 16:03]
2003 World Almanac - Consumer Info
Downloads The Database contains:Full-color Cover Page, Storage Card Compatibility, Searchable RecordsConsumer Information, including Business Directory, Product Ownership Listing, Top Brand Products, Top 10 Shopping Websites, Child Raising Costs, Median...
[February 4, 2003, 6:00]
Visitors to US must register online
News By missing an opportunity for public or stakeholder input, DHS has circumvented a process that could have resulted in a much improved programme," the Air Transport Association of America said in a statement at the time.
[January 13, 2009, 15:11]
Watchdog issues rogue-dialler help
Talkback A current client purchased a travel pkg from Sunsine Travel based on a fax ad, fell for several upgrades and a switch to Best USA, ended up with botched reservations after buying air tx from another source, and was refused a refund by Sunshine and...
[April 23, 2006, 3:08]
if only it COULD be silent
Talkback This is probably the worst thing that could happen to air travel. Adding ambient aircraft noise, confined conditions and a larger-than-average proportion of pompous idiots, the whole thing becomes an air-rage magnet.
[March 27, 2008, 12:55]
BT hoovers up broadband punters with 'free' flights
News BT has unveiled its latest weapon in the fight to sign up broadband customers -- subsidised air travel. Voucher-holders will only be eligible to travel with "selected airlines" -- which BT says "may include BMI, British Airways, Air France, KLM and...
[May 11, 2004, 11:50]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Tomorrow, I experience the joy of modern air travel as I waft Intel Developer Forum-wards in the back of Dell-defying Virgin Atlantic flight VS19. Friday 22/09/2006 I've lost count of how many I've been to, but I brood on the one where I got stuck...
[September 22, 2006, 19:25]
Is Bill's philanthropy just another form of control?
Blog On a flight back from LA last week I found myself in that brain limbo that too much air travel can impose. Too wired to sleep but too tired to sit through a whole movie so breaking with my normal obsessive need to watch all the new movies on the...
[January 21, 2009, 14:44]
The SAS Group Improves Insight Into Financial Data
White Papers The SAS Group, the Nordic region's largest listed airline and travel group, offers air transportation and airline-related services from its base in Northern Europe. The company wanted to eliminate fragmentation by creating a single reporting...
[November 3, 2007, 0:00]
Wi-Fi rollout completed on East Coast trains
Talkback I pick GNER over air travel because of the wifi. The main reason nobody uses laptops on First "Great" Western trains is that they have yet to manage to provide power points, something even Virgin have had for years.
[October 27, 2006, 23:35]
BT hoovers up broadband punters with 'free' flights
Talkback Got my free flight to the Big Apple very pleased just had to pay the air tax. Big Thanks to all at Rise Travel.
[December 10, 2004, 21:20]



