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

Oxford, UK-based meta site Zoombu is almost ready to reveal all to the wider world with the launch of an overhauled micro-version of the main site for skiiers.... Read More

US TV executives will be delighted that the new and final season of trippy drama Lost is getting so much attention ahead of its premiere next week.... Read More

Kayak quietly introduced its Private Sale exclusive hotel deals, where Kayak, in an apparent travel-metasearch first, collects the booking and credit-card details from the consumer.... Read More

This upcoming weekend will be a really big one for JetBlue because it expects a degree of disruption and delays as it transitions its internal reservations systems from Navitaire to SabreSonic Customer Sales & Service.... Read More

One of the most glaring omissions from the coverage of the hotel partnership between eBay and Octopus Travel in recent weeks is how far the auction giant is willing to go in travel.... Read More