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Trend alert: Airlines offer flyers access to thousands of digital publications
TransportAirlines around the world are responding to the large number of passengers carrying smartphones, notebooks, tablets and e-readers by equipping seats with power ports and introducing onboard Wi-Fi and/or wireless inflight entertainment portals. In an effort to offer passengers a much wider variety of news, instead of the rather obligatory bunch of newspapers and magazines [...]
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TripIt will soon find users better seats, but are the app’s best days behind it?
TransportTripIt is in the final stages of launching a Seat Tracker tool for users of its premium service, TripIt Pro, Skift has learned. A little more than two years after Concur acquired TripIt for $120 million, the popular itinerary management service finds itself at a crossroads, and Barry Padgett, Concur’s executive vice president of traveler [...]
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Airlines reserving special treatment for the privileged few
TransportCutting lines at airports used to be only for the rich, famous or very frequent fliers. But then airlines started granting fast-track access to anybody with the right credit card or who was willing to shell out a few extra dollars. Now, with the masses clogging up special security and boarding lanes, true VIPs are [...]
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Survey: Travelers don’t track frequent flyer miles and are frequently baffled
TransportIt turns out that 73% of Americans who have frequent flyer miles don’t know how many they have and 59% said they don’t know how these programs work. 73% of Americans with airline miles don’t know how many they have. The other interesting facts to come out of the survey were that only 67% of [...]
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Milepoint launches funding competition for frequent flyer startups
TransportFrequent flyer forum Milepoint is launching a “funding competition for small startups focused on providing tools, services and applications designed for road warriors/frequent flyers.” Milepoint founder Randy Petersen tells Skift the first Launchpoint competition, which will take place in Washington, D.C., April 27 at Hilton Tyson’s Corner, aims to have 10 startups pitching to an [...]
