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Continental Adjusts Thinking With New Exit Row Fees
Continental Airlines' decision to charge extra for exit row seats with more legroom reflects a shift in thinking by the carrier, which in the past showed reluctance to match...

TripIt Activates 1,000 Corporate Travel Social Networks
Travel managers may be wondering about the first step they should take to create a social network for company travelers. TripIt didn't wait for them to figure it out. Based on its...

Wal-Mart Pushes UATP To Accept La Quinta, Other Hotel Charges
Growing its merchant network beyond air and transportation-related charges for the first time in 74 years, Universal Air Travel Plan began accepting charges from La Quinta Inns &...

5Q With Host Hotels' Minaz Abji
Pricing power may not yet have returned in most markets, but Host Hotels and Resorts executive vice president of asset management Minaz Abji said a slight rise in occupancy,...

Concur made available a new online expense reporting system for small businesses....


Egencia in December launched automated trip plan synchronization with Outlook and Lotus Notes calendars...


Travelport will provide travel agents with "fully automated" hotel commission processing through Galileo and Worldspan...


Hilton Garden Inn guests now can print documents from their mobile devices to printers located in hotel business centers...


Marriott International starting May 7 will offer elite-level loyalty program members free Internet access at 450 U.S. and Canadian hotels....


NBTA created and filled three "executive-level" positions related to technology, finance and research....


According to FlightStats, US Airways in February had the highest cancellation rate among major U.S. carriers at 6.24 percent...


Alaska Airlines in February was the most punctual major U.S. carrier, with an on-time performance of 85 percent, according to FlightStats....


Continental Airlines said beginning March 17 it would offer an option at check-in to buy "premium seat assignments for unreserved economy-class seats that feature extra legroom," such as exit-row seats...


Travelocity Business announced integration with midmarket online expense management provider Certify...


Omega Enlists Sabre's TripCase Mobile App
Special from The Beat. Omega World Travel became the first travel management company to deploy Sabre Travel Studios' TripCase mobile application, which is available on BlackBerry,...

Federal Inspector: DHS Sloppy With Spend
The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security earlier this month scrutinized the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's conference spending practices during...

No Longer A Virtual Reality: Masters Participants Glimpse A Smaller Future For Business Travel
Cisco's well publicized and admittedly self-supporting push for virtual conferencing took a half-turn back to reality as the company now advocates a "hybrid" approach involving...

5Q With Charles Petruccelli
A release of pent-up demand drove recent improvements in booking levels, and a "prolonged period of flatness" is more likely than a sharp recovery, according to a somber industry...

Lufthansa Says No To Ancillary
Big airlines are going after billions in ancillary sales and driving industry providers to accommodate them in booking and data reporting, but not all top carriers are on board....

Hoteliers, Execs Discuss Challenges Ahead For Mtgs., Travel
Economic recovery, an accelerated pace of change, new technologies and generational shifts are among the challenges that meeting and travel professionals face in 2010, executives...
  

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