Sabre Airline Solutions announced the release of new proactive weather and air traffic management tools as part of Sabre AirCenter Flight Explorer, Release 9.1. The solution includes new state-of-the-art feature enhancements that will help airlines improve fleet management through weather events and airspace constraints alerts, reducing potential delays and maximizing fuel savings.
Price comparison site www.dealchecker.co.uk has introduced its new Best Deals feature. Its existing “search by date” feature allows consumers to compare prices direct between several travel operators.
The online social travel guide tripwolf has launched the first iPhone application for travelers, enabling them to search and download professional, up-to-date travel information before and during their travels.
Priceline.com has launched a new, enhanced hotel reservation service that makes it easier to find the best hotels and the best deals. The service provides a streamlined yet powerful shopping experience that provides comprehensive hotel information, multiple search options and priceline.com’s hotel guest scorecard/review program for hotels. It has comprehensive guest scorecards for hotels.
STA Travel is rolling out Comtec Group’s Travelconnect product in all of its 45 UK shops. STA Travel will be the largest single roll out of Travelconnect since it ‘went on sale’ at WTM in 2008.
Propel Media, Inc. has launched a social media platform for travel deals, BestTravelDeals.net. The site allows travel providers to share deals at no cost, and community members to vote on the deals.