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Technology: Mobile Boarding Passes: Convenience, or Technology for Technology's Sake?

When new software is introduced, such as whiz-bang applications for mobile devices, technology reviewers tend to focus whether it is the latest, greatest, or coolest thing to hit the market. Less often do you see reviewers take a step ...READ»

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Technology: Destination Moon

Travel technology is taking one small leap for mankind in this moon walk anniversary year. It is, after all, forty years this July 20 that the Armstrong and Aldrin set down on the moon. It is also the year that the private ...READ»

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Technology: What Is in Store in 2009

No one is saying that 2009 is going to be a good year for the airlines. But travel technology still will be catalyzing changes behind the scenes that will help the airlines ultimately become more successful, profitable, and ...READ»

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Technology: Social Networking Meets Your Travel Itinerary

If you'd like some good news about travel, mine is that technology is evolving in ways which helps travelers organize their trips to a "t." TripIt is the site that is captivating me right now, because of its simplicity, ...READ»

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Technology: Extreme À La Carte

Here’s a notion you might find difficult to stuff in your overhead bin: Airlines haven’t gone near far enough when it comes to "à la carte" pricing. In the airline world today, "à la carte" means ...READ»

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Technology: A380 Impact Within U.S. Muted at First

As big as the Airbus A380 is, its impact in the U.S. market will be muted for the first few years simply because there won't be a lot of them flying here. In fact, to date no American carriers have even ordered the plane. The ...READ»

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Technology: The Sun Rises in the Southwest

The air travel landscape is changing forever from what we've come to expect: cheap flights, frequent flights, and all-inclusive fares. The slow economy, the weak dollar, and high-priced fuel are all contributing to the big move ...READ»

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Technology: Are Airports at Risk?

Are airports really at risk? Yes, says the Pennsylvania-based Business Travel Coalition, which claims 150 airports will lose all air service if oil prices stay in the $130-a-barrel range ("BTC Warns Congress About ...READ»

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Technology: Between a Rock and an IT Place

As the news site Anna.Aero points out, route reductions are providing opportunities for some airlines to expand and others to cut back. The overriding issue derailing airline recovery especially in the U.S. is, of course, oil. ...READ»

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Technology: Airline Industry Basically Bankrupt?

George Mason University's Kenneth Button, a professor of public policy, calls an airline basically "a bus with wings." In the same Travel Weekly article in which Button makes that assertion, he also points out ...READ»

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Technology: Fees, Fuel, and Survival

Terry Trippler is absolutely "right on" in his quote in a recent edition of USA Today in which he says "This isn't nickel-and-diming. It's survival." Trippler is talking about the American Airlines $15 ...READ»

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Technology: Share the Air

I have to admit I wasn't aware the extent to which commercial air traffic shares the sky with military air traffic — and how long ago those lanes in the sky were laid out. But Scott McCartney, a pilot himself, knows all about ...READ»

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