Amadeus and Concur, vendors of competing corporate self-booking tools, entered into a global strategic partnership which finds Amadeus lending a third-party -- in this case, a rival turned ally -- some of Amadeus' close-to-the vest distribution technology for the first time.... Read More

The who's who of the Travel Technology Europe event in London on 9 and 10 February.... Read More

A California Superior Court in Los Angeles today set aside a hearing officer's decision in Anaheim, Calif., in 2009 that would have forced Priceline, Expedia, Orbitz and friends to shell out $21.3 million in hotel taxes tied to their practice of the merchant model.... Read More

European budget airline FlyBe is struggling to maintain its online presence after a series of problems over the past few days.... Read More

Two U.S. airlines are testing mobile apps that would deliver seat upgrades, lounge passes, check-ins and/or priority boarding through a new partnership between Farelogix and Mobiata, officials say.... Read More

Travelport is celebrating what it calls "a huge win" after securing exclusive rights to connect Thomas Cook offline retail travel agencies to airline data via the Galileo GDS - but who is the loser?... Read More

Way back when – the Internet was new and DOS titles were giving way to CD-ROMs and Windows 95 based software (not apps as we now call most of them) – there were a number of staple products.... Read More

Travel Rants editor Darren Cronian has switched from once being a thorn in the side of the travel industry to launching his own hyperlocal content product for tourists.... Read More

Categorisation of online travel sites used to be easy. Either a site was transactional or non-transactional.... Read More

JetBlue.com, the airline's website, was apparently operational again today by 3 p.m. EST. The airline, which is transitioning this weekend to SabreSonic as the host of the airline's reservations system, had planned to take down the website at around noon on Friday and to bring it back up this afternoon.... Read More

What you missed on Tnooz this week, Sunday 24 to Saturday 30 January 2010.... Read More

Update: JetBlue.com, the airline's website, was apparently operational again Saturday by 3 p.m. EST. As promised, JetBlue's website, JetBlue.com, went quiet this afternoon as the airline transitions reservations-system providers from Navitaire to Sabre.... Read More

Air New Zealand created a stir this week when it announced plans for lie-flat seats in economy for long-haul flights, but FedEx has gone one step further in catering to the wants of preferred customers -- custom-built transport containers for two pandas bound for Sichuan and Chengdu, China.... Read More

The Curse of Tnooz strikes? Within days of Earth.org being featured here the site's backers have stunned their community of writers and users and suddenly announced operations are over.... Read More

Amadeus and Air France-KLM extended their full-content agreement through the end of 2013, the companies say.... Read More