Travel and hotel reviews web site TripAdvisor seems to be on a scorching growth ride. The popular web site is tooting the horn today that it currently lists 45 million reviews and opinions. Apparently, 23 new contributions are posted every minute. Since October 2010, the site has added five million […]
Hong Kong based boutique private jet advisory practice Firestone Management Group is seeing a sharp rise in private jets in the last three years. The researcher found 136 private jets registered in India as of March 15, 2011. Most Less than 10-Years-Old Of the total 136 private registered jets, 95 […]
American Airlines has retimed the departure of its daily nonstop flight from Chicago to Delhi to open up over 20 same-day connection opportunities for customers flying beyond India’s capital, The Chicago-Delhi flight now leaves three hours earlier than the previous schedule. Under the new schedule, the flight departs from Chicago […]
Budget airline Southwest has commenced flights from Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) with eight flights initially. The new service offers six daily nonstop flights to Chicago Midway and two daily nonstop flights to St. Louis. Beginning June 5, 2011, Southwest plans to expand the service with three daily nonstops to
United Continental Holdings, Inc., the parent company of United and Continental Airlines, has expanded its mobile check-in and mobile boarding passes to United customers traveling with international itineraries. Customers may check in at united.com using a Web-enabled mobile device beginning 24 hours before departure. United’s mobile boarding pass option is […]
These are not good times for the travel business. Political unrest in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain and Libya, the high unemployment in the U.S., severe winter weather in January and February in the U.S., soaring gas prices and now the triple whammy of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis in Japan have […]