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Routehappy's flight amenity comparisons are a significant step forward for flight metasearch. You can expect larger competitors to follow with knock-off services, although there is a lot of research/heavy lifting involved.

Loyal flyers will always be resistant to change, but Avianca’s color-conscious and well-thought-out branding is a smarter execution than American’s redesign that left little room for US Airway’s mark.

Taking time for daily travels - whether to a cafe, park, or bike ride - is an important indicator of work-life balance and have significant impacts on the movement and culture of a city.

Rouge is cute, but it's approach is eerily reminiscent of earlier low-cost efforts in the U.S. by United and Delta to create their now-shuttered hip airlines, Ted and Song.

Let's see: Paying for Wi-Fi and a couple of drinks on an Air France-KLM flight. The tab may soon approach the cost of a Ryanair ticket.

HotelTonight blazed a trail in the U.S. as a first-mover in same-day, mobile hotel bookings. Although it has strong financial backing, achieving the same rate of success abroad may be a lot more problematic.

This one's for the purist slow traveler in us...

Citi Bike, like its home city, is among the largest in the world, and a successful launch with local pick-up would see the system expand to all five boroughs with the potential for changing the way NYC moves.

The week before a holiday is bound to have heavier passenger traffic than average, but that doesn’t explain why the TSA found a record number of guns twice in the month of May.