American Airlines customers departing on domestic flights from Chicago O’Hare now can receive electronic boarding passes on their cell phones and PDAs.
“That’s not a tide that we can swim against at the rate we did in Q3.” This statement has come from Orbitz chief executive Steve Barnhart in the context of the performance of the OTA in the prevalent economic environment in an interview with Reuters. The OTAs acknowledge that they are clearly living through an unprecedented period in financial and economic history.
eMeetingsOnline, a Denver-based company that offers a web-based, single-source solution for the conference management and travel industries, has selected and implemented Tripwire Enterprise, a configuration control and change auditing solution.
India’s MakeMyTrip has launched a proprietary “Distance-meter” tool to support travelers with their hotel selections.
Pegasus Solutions, Inc. and Net Trans Services AS have extended an agreement to maximize the commissions travel agents receive from thousands of hotels worldwide. Pegasus and Net Trans extended for three years the partnership begun in November 2006 to help agents increase income, cut costs and streamline processes.
Orient-Express Hotels has signed a global agreement with TravelCLICK. The new deal will offer an integrated suite of hotel distribution management, market intelligence, and GDS media solutions to its 41 hotels worldwide.