Dennis Schaal

Concur and Trover: strange bedfellows? Not so much, according to Concur, which believes social media will play a major role in business travel, and how well employees follow the mandates of their companies' travel policies.

A lot of mega travel agencies and major corporations are trying to put the proverbial genie back in the bottle when they battle their employees over how and where they book their travel. The solution definitely isn't handing out badges and mayorships.

Kreeger and Anderson aren't officially joint venture partners yet, but their idea to pressure U.S. officials about embarassing Customs waits at New York airports doesn't appear to be a total coincidence.

Priceline's new homepage is a lot prettier than its immediate predecessor. No, William Shatner isn't pretty, but he and Kaley Cuoco accomplish Priceline's goals of touting its Hotwire-like product, Express Deals, as bidding gets shuffled to the background.

The American Airlines-US Airways combination would challenge United Airlines as the top airline serving U.S. international non-stop markets. There's a lot of money in that.

Hey, it is not all about Millennials and Chinese travelers. U.S. Boomers are exercising their wanderlust, too.

The larger regional jets will bring lots of efficiencies to American Eagle and other carriers as they better match markets and aircraft. But, despite the changes, American Eagle has a horrendous customer service record that larger regional jets won't fix.

Do you want great hotel rates for tonight, or do you want all the rates for tonight that are available on mobile? Hipmunk is banking on its belief that travelers will go for the latter so they don't have to hop around from app to app.

If you want to use Google Glass in an automobile, hire an Uber black car, rent a Zipcar and have a friend get behind the wheel as a designated driver, or borrow a Google driver-less vehicle. Otherwise, the ticket inevitably will be more expensive than, well, shelling out for Google Glass.

Google would never merely imitate what Hipmunk is doing. You can be assured that under the hood there are a whole lot of analytics going on to determine what the Best Flights really are.