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'Online monopoly' could push up air fares by $3.2bn
News But as member airlines will be obliged to provide Orbitz with exclusive access to their cheapest flights, competition between the five airlines, and alliances with travel agencies, will suffer, warned Hausman. [29 Mar 2001]
Air France wings its way onto the web with Travelprice
News Travelprice.com will promote Air France on its eight sites in Canada, the US and Europe for the next two years. In a statement, Air France claimed the deal was a non-exclusive agreement as part of the... [15 Jan 2001]
Amadeus purchases Vacation.com to move into US market
News The deal will provide Amadeus with access to 8,400 travel agencies in the US and Canada to help them offer holiday-makers cruises, accommodation and flights. Air France holds the majority stake in... [31 Oct 2000]
Asian airlines develop online travel shop
News A group of nine Asian airlines is to launch an internet travel shop to sell holidays and flights over the web. The consortium, consisting of Air Singapore, Asiana, Air New Zealand,... [03 Jul 2000]
NATS says sorry for air traffic chaos
News Software crash took three and a quarter hours to fix but the resulting backlog of flights took days to sort out. With the system down, operators had to revert to pen and paper to log flights manually. [22 Jun 2000]
Software glitch leaves UK flights high and dry
News Airlines who had to cancel and delay flights will now be going over legal agreements in fine detail, trying to claw back some of the millions of pounds they've lost. EasyJet - which cancelled all flights... [20 Jun 2000]
Boeing connects business travellers in the air
News The system, to be called Connexion by Boeing, will be introduced to Domestic US flights at the end of this year and subsequently to European flights. Boeing, the civil aircraft manufacturer, has... [28 Apr 2000]
FAA glitches delay US flights
News FAA spokeswoman, Alison Duquette, said the problems started when the air-traffic control centre in Leesburg, Virginia, experienced a data-transfer problem between a peripheral device and the main computer, which caused... [10 Jan 2000]
Canada airline operators to ground planes over millennium
News According to a statement from Air Canada "most Air Canada flights between 6:00pm Friday 31st December 1999 and noon Saturday 1st January have been cancelled". The two major Canadian... [21 Sep 1999]
'Internet in the sky' cleared for take-off
News So far, ten European air traffic control centres support ATN, and seven airlines, including SAS and Lufthansa, are running trial flights. Air traffic control centres in Europe are in the... [22 Jul 1999]
Air traffic control system fails to take-off
News SAirGroup airline - which uses Zurich as its hub - called the computer glitch an embarrassment, claiming it has already caused the cancellation of 16 flights and made many more run at least two hours late. [30 Jun 1999]
Airlines to change systems to cope with OFT regulations
News The OFT is concerned that airline contracts do not guarantee financial compensation to customers whose flights are rescheduled. Despite the ongoing investigation, many airlines are evaluating sophisticated information... [28 Jun 1999]
Automated air traffic system prepares for take-off
News The researchers hope that the system will allow airports to raise the limits on the number of flights they can handle simultaneously. A fully automatic air traffic control system is being tested in the UK. [01 Jun 1999]
UK air traffic controllers claim Y2K success
News The aviation authority claims the systems used to patrol the airspace used by 5,000 daily flights are fully millennium compliant. The sky over Britain will be safe to fly through after the millennium, according to the... [30 Mar 1999]
Delta expands online booking system
News US carrier, Delta Air Lines is expanding its online booking service to cover international flights. Having covered domestic flights since 1996, Delta's Internet booking system will now... [02 Mar 1999]
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