Consumer Traveler Today: May 26

Consumer Traveler Today: Privacy and personalized bargains for airfares
 
 
Privacy and personalized bargains for airfares
What we’re reading: OK for AA/BA alliance, private Florida airport opens, Holiday Inn tests smartphone room key program
DOT’s shift from protecting the public to protecting large airlines
Will the Continental-United merger, the end of Economy Plus?
Privacy and personalized bargains for airfares
Posted: 26 May 2010 05:36 AM PDT
The new airfare order with fares, surcharges, fees and variations thereof will mean passengers will have to give airlines, travel agencies, GDSs and search engines even more information than ever before to find the lowest airfare. Privacy, once an afterthought when purchasing a ticket will become an issue.
       

What we’re reading: OK for AA/BA alliance, private Florida airport opens, Holiday Inn tests smartphone room key program
Posted: 26 May 2010 03:00 AM PDT
BA gets go-ahead for alliance with AA, New Florida airport opens, UAL makes emergency landing in Montreal
       

DOT’s shift from protecting the public to protecting large airlines
Posted: 25 May 2010 08:43 AM PDT
Airline consolidation has been taking two tracks. First, airlines are merging. Second, antitrust immunity granted to airline alliances has created an international, government-approved oligopoly that controls 85 percent of the market.
       

Will the Continental-United merger, the end of Economy Plus?
Posted: 25 May 2010 06:30 AM PDT
Janice ponders whether the merger of Continental and United will mean more Economy Plus seats, or the elimination of the program.