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Qantas ditches staff Blackberrys in favor of iPhones

What took so long?

Skift | 12 years ago

Hotels

Expedia “creating a ruckus” as it deserts small city in California

Expedia can decide to pick its spots when it decides to play hardball over the hotel tax issue, but will it need to change its strategy as more cities follow in Arcadia's footsteps?

Skift | 12 years ago

Hotels

Airbnb to spend $97 million over ten years on new office

Online Travel

SkiftAds: Gogo Wi-Fi campaign can’t wait for leisure travelers

Hey, leisure travelers want their MTV and in-flight Internet, too. Wi-Fi on high is not just for road warriors.

Skift | 12 years ago

Uncategorized

Airlines won’t have fueltank safety devices installed in time; no extension from FAA

FAA's doing the right thing by coming down hard on Boeing, and i everyone agrees they'll meet the 2017 deadline, then why delay it between now and then?

Skift | 12 years ago

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Moscow tries to deal with traffic congestion by encouraging bike and foot traffic

The proposal by Moscow's mayor is a good thought, but towns tend to have more success by pushing road-sharing programs that institute good habits on all streets rather than just selective good transport.

Skift | 12 years ago

Airlines

Need a pocket knife or a snow globe? Try a TSA auction

You might think that after over a decade of stringent rules about what you can and can't bring on a flight that people would stop bringing knives and such to airports. But their mistake can be your prize if you know where to shop.

Skift | 12 years ago

Hotels

Accor buys South American hotel chain for $275 million

Go elsewhere is the mantra for hotel industry expansion. That big "elsewhere" includes the fastest growing travel market of Latin America.

Skift | 12 years ago

Hotels

Religious figures ask hotel industry to drop porn from TV systems; industry scoffs

What's coming next? A letter to ask removal of wifi from hotels so people don't surf porn on their laptops/tablets? The hotel TV porn systems have been in rapid decline anyway as wifi/broadband has taken off, so the pastor & imam could just wait a bit longer.

Skift | 12 years ago

Online Travel

How Jetpac turned a $5,000 contest into a funding bonanza

The Kaggle code-writing contests are interesting if the programming geeks don't get ripped off. But, Jetpac's photo-curation algorithm leaves a lot to be desired.

Skift | 12 years ago

Airlines

How one company helps airlines decide who gets treated well and who has to pay

As airlines get better at passenger profiling they will drive greater loyalty among frequent flyers, but they should make sure the the gap between high-flyer and leisure traveler isn't so wide that potential customers get turned off.

Skift | 12 years ago