Travel & Travel Technology News.Aug 6, 2007 Passengers don't want to listen to fellow travelers' calls. Airlines are cautiously expanding the ways that passengers can stay in touch with people and business on the ground. One potentially sensitive area is cell phone use. Most passengers say they would like to be able to use their phones but don't want to listen to another traveler's conversations. Aug 3, 2007 Long lines In communications, circuits that are capable of handling transmissions over long distances. at airports about to get longer. As air travelers continue to deal with the frustration of long lines at airports, the Bush administration is about to make the lines even longer by requiring fingerprinting of some passengers. A perfect antidote for summer airport and road congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. and delays would be to pack games such as Franklin's electronic Crossword Puzzle Solver http://www.franklin.com/estore/dictionary/CWP-206/ or Sudoku game http://www.franklin.com/estore/dictionary/SDU-320/ to make the time go faster- nothing like a little addictive educational fun for yourself or your family. Aug 1, 2007 Air India Air India (formerly Air-India, Hindi: एअर इंडिया) is the national flag carrier of India with a worldwide network of passenger and cargo services. SITA welcomed Air India as a new user of its air/ground communications services for both voice and data link. Air India will use SITA's Aircom Server. Aug 1, 2007 American Airlines American Airlines Major U.S. airline. American was created through a merger of several smaller U.S. airlines and incorporated in 1934. It continued to buy the routes of other airlines, becoming an international carrier in the 1970s; its routes include South America, the American Airlines has introduced DealFinder - a brand new, downloadable, computer desktop tool that offers customers exclusive, targeted, discounted fares to locations throughout American's worldwide network.Customers can spend less time planning travel and let DealFinder do the leg work! No more searching for the lowest fares - DealFinder does it for you. Aug 2, 2007 American Airlines American Airlines plans to launch a test of in-flight Wi-Fi, joining a growing list of airlines that are hooking passengers up to the Internet at 30,000 feet. AirCell LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , based in Itasca, Ill., will provide the high-speed broadband Internet See broadband. technology for use on American's U.S. flights. The test will begin next year on 15 Boeing 767-200 airplanes that mainly fly transcontinental routes, such as from New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of to Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. or San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . American officials said Wednesday they're trying to provide what their customers want, particularly their business passengers. Aug 2, 2007 American Airlines American Airlines will introduce ON American Airlines, a new monthly entertainment magazine featuring news and reviews on technology, games, music, TV and DVDs. The publication will be provided on all entertainment-equipped flights, including Boeing 737, 757, 767, and 777, and Airbus 300 aircraft, and will point out complete in-flight audio and video options available to passengers on board American Airlines. The 28-page magazine, produced by American Airlines Publishing, is a redesign of AAttractions, the previous guide that listed audio and video information. Aug 2, 2007 American Airlines, AirCell American Airlines signed an MOU (Minutes Of Usage) A metric used to compute billing and/or statistics for telephone calls or other network use. with AirCell to become the first US carrier to test that company's high-speed broadband capability for passengers traveling within the continental US. The test will be conducted next year on AA's Boeing 767-200s "that primarily fly transcontinental routes," according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the airline. The solution will provide passengers the ability to use Wi-Fi-enabled laptops and PDAs "coast-to-coast, border-to-border," surf the Internet and send and receive e-mail, according to AirCell. Neither FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S. nor FAA has approved the use of mobile phones or PDAs for voice communication in flight. The technology, which relies on ground stations to transmit the signal, will use three antennas installed on the outside of the aircraft. Signals received inside the cabin will be 802.11a/b/g Wi-Fi. Aug 2, 2007 Delta Air Lines Commercial passengers can help change system. Joe Kolshak, Delta Air Lines' executive vice president and chief of operations, tells it like it is: The U.S. air traffic control system is out of date and so is the tax system that funds it. Commercial air passengers can help on both fronts. They should insist that Congress fund an upgrade to satellite-based technology, and they should demand that a fair share of those funds come from corporate jet owners. Aug 2, 2007 JetBlue Airways For the Jet Blue database used in Exchange Server and Active Directory, see Extensible Storage Engine. JetBlue Airways is a major American low-cost airline owned by JetBlue Airways Corporation (NASDAQ: JBLU). JetBlue Airways and The New York Times will launch "Times On Air," the airline's new in-flight video magazine of content from the newspaper's TimesTalks events, its signature discussion series featuring journalists in conversation with today's newsmakers and cultural leaders, along with articles and multimedia from www.NYTimes.com. The programming will cover a wide range of topics from travel, style and dining to the arts, business and technology, and will be updated each month. The new program, which is exclusively on JetBlue flights, is presented by the JetBlue Card from American Express. JetBlue is also the official airline of TimesTalks events. Aug 2, 2007 Kuala Lumpur Airport, SITA SITA has installed ten CUTE (Common Use Terminal Equipment) check-in desks at CAT in good time for the 50th anniversary celebrations of Malaysia's independence in August. Express Rail Link The Express Rail Link is a standard gauge and electrified railway line in Malaysia that links the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) with the Kuala Lumpur Sentral (KL Sentral) transportation hub, 57 kilometres apart. (ERL See URL. ) CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Dr. Aminuddin Adnan said: "Implementation of SITA's AirportConnect CUTE platform at Kuala Lumpur CAT is an exciting development. Now all airlines can offer city check-in in KL Central which will grow our business through delivering a common platform for all airlines to access advanced, integrated IT infrastructure that guarantees efficiency, reliability and support for airlines using the facilities." Jul 31, 2007 Lufthansa Lufthansa is poised to join with a team headed by cellular-telephone giant T-Mobile to offer broadband Internet access Broadband Internet access, often shortened to just "broadband", is high speed Internet access—typically contrasted with dial-up access over modem. Dial-up modems are generally only capable of a maximum bitrate of 56 kbit/s (kilobits per second) and require the full use of a and wireless email to its long-haul passengers, industry officials said. Seeking to re-establish its leadership in onboard connectivity, these people said, Lufthansa has no immediate plans to allow long-haul passengers to talk on their own portable phones. The German airline has made a preliminary decision to establish partnerships and intends to launch an improved version of in-flight Internet connections by early 2008. Aug 1, 2007 ZZ Editorial eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For Air Transport & Travel Business Experts contact our Director of Content Aram Gesar eMail: bizintel@AirGuideOnline.com For more global news, reviews, features and analysis, please subscribe to our Newsletters: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm#news To Advertise: advert@AirGuideOnline.com AirGuideFlightTracker is a new service that keeps travelers informed on flight and airport status via the Web. For more go to http://www.airguideonline.com/airline_tracker.htm Copyright [c] 2007 Pyramid Media Group / Air Travel Media. All rights reserved. |
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