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

Little things -- like finally getting your waylaid luggage -- mean a lot and Twitter CEO Evan Williams sounded almost ecstatic this morning when his bags, checked in on a United Airlines flight from JFK to Frankfurt, finally found their way to his final destination in Zurich 42 hours late. Williams, in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum, issued the following tweet this morning: Luggage arrived! 42 hours later. Never been so happy to see a suitcase. (Thanks, @unitedairlines, Swiss Air, and anyone else involved.) In tweets that were undoubtedly duly noted with trepidation in United's boardrooms, the CEO of the impactful social-media site tipped off the twitterati to his plight starting on Tuesday morning. Williams tweeted: "Aaaaand now we're in Zurich, but our luggage is not."... Read More

I am completely stumped with what ABTA, the UK official travel body that represents the interests of a large proportion of the UK travel industry is up to. Seems they want to regulate airline websites in a way I don't understand at all. Now I admit I don't understand what they are doing. Last week when I wrote about it I got back-channel comments saying it was perfectly obvious what they were doing and I shouldn't be writing about if it I was confused.... Read More

The New York Attorney General's Office says it is investigating and subpoenaed 22 online retailers -- including Priceline, Expedia, Hotwire, Travelocity and Orbitz -- for links to discount clubs which allegedly deceptively collect unauthorized fees from consumers. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo says the investigation found that retailers were linking to discount programs offered by Webloyalty, Affinion/Trilegiant and Vertrue, all of which allegedly buried in fine print the fact that consumers were authorizing the transfer of their credit or debit account information from the retailer to the discount club. The discount club then took "small and recurring charges" from the unwitting consumers, the attorney general's office says. Incidentally, Trilegiant formerly was part of Cendant. All of the online travel agencies subpoenaed say they are cooperating with the Attorney General's investigation, but apparently are adopting varying approaches to the issue.... Read More