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Car sharing services face their biggest challenges from gaining legitimacy from wary consumers as well as major players, such as the insurance industry. Backing from a car manufacturer goes a long way towards improving the odds on both of those.

Bag fees are not against Southwest's religion and, with the acquisition of checked-bag-fee charging AirTran, management is undoubtedly mulling whether to see the green light.

Hot on the heels of American's CEO taking credit for thinking of everything first, US Air posts blowout numbers to quickly put its bankrupt takeover target firmly in its place.

The eternal question for hotel brands: Is the revenue they're getting out of WiFi worth the really bad taste it leaves in its consumers' mouths?

On American CEO Tom Horton's list of things he thought of first but nobody give him credit for: Google, the Polio vaccine, democracy, and the wheel.

Wifi, like running hot water, is becoming a utility and hotel customers expect it to be free or cheap. And with all talk about bringing in tech in check-in experience, lack of human touch there is most grating, customers say.

easyJet and Ryanair are stuck in the fee-gotcha game, and easyJet, the smaller airline, now has some bragging rights of sorts.

Brazil, not U.S., takes the cake, though of course we're not too far behind.

Critics of the iPad say it's not a work machine, but it's hard to argue that tasks like checking in passengers or changing seat assignments on the fly aren't better executed on a tablet than behind a desk.

There's next to no demand for DVRs in rooms unless there's a service that could link it to your home. But even LodgeNet couldn't pull off a deal like that with local cable operators -- especially when you can sidestep it all with your own tablet or laptop.