Travel & Travel Technology News.Oct 8, 2007Airports doubling as shopping malls. Airports are generating needed revenue by sprucing up their retail options and giving travelers a mall-like shopping experience. Stores like Brooks Brothers Brooks Brothers is the oldest surviving men's clothier in the United States, founded in 1818. The privately owned company is owned by Retail Brand Alliance, a spinoff of Luxottica, and is headquartered on Madison Avenue in New York City. and Victoria's Secret For the Sonata Arctica single, see Victoria's Secret (song) Victoria's Secret is an American retailer of high quality lingerie and beauty products.[2] give bored passengers a place to spend their time -- and dollars -- while waiting for flights. Oct 3, 2007 Annual cost of airline delays in USA is $9 billion. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters Mary Peters could refer to either:
Business travel may slow due to flight delays and rising cost. Although no hard data is available, it appears that business travel will be slowing over the next year. The main reasons corporate travel managers cite are the extensive flight delays this year and rising costs. Susan Gurley, executive director of the Association of Corporate Travel Executives | The Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE) is a not-for-profit professional association of business travel stakeholders throughout the world. The ACTE purpose is to advance the interests of the business travel industry, to promote industry networking , says businesspeople are considering more carefully whether they need to travel or can handle certain tasks by phone. Oct 2, 2007 Anvil anvil Iron block on which metal is placed for shaping, originally by hand with a hammer. The blacksmith's anvil is usually of wrought iron (sometimes of cast iron), with a smooth working surface of hardened steel. Group Anvil Group has recently revealed its new Travel Risk Intelligence System (TRIS TRIS tromethamine. tris (tris) 1. tromethamine. 2. tris(2,3-dibromopropyl) phosphate. ) has resulted in more than 1,000 organisations subscribing to the service, a mere six months after its launch at the Business Travel Show. TRIS offers companies up-to-date information regarding incidents that may affect business travel, such as global events, weather reports and general travel advice. TRIS is updated and monitored 24 hours a day and provides travel managers with information on travel associated risks. Oct 2, 2007 British Airways British Airways in full British Airways PLC International passenger airline based in London. In 1936 British Airways Ltd. was founded through the merger of three smaller airlines. , Calidris Calidris announced that British Airways has gone live with its Business Change Management solution, enabling British Air to create an Order Data Store combining customer information "from across the complete booking-to-fulfillment lifecycle in a single unified data layer." Calidris said the first application attacked the problem of duplicate bookings. Oct 4, 2007 Galileo, VFM VFM Value For Money VFM Virtual File Manager (Netapp) VFM Variable Frequency Microwave VFM Vote for Me VFM Vehicle Fleet Management VFM Visual Factory Management VFM VSB File Manager Interactive Galileo and VFM Interactive, an online media management company, have joined forces to provide Galileo-connected agents with free, desktop access to photos, videos and virtual tours Virtual Tours The phrases panoramic tour and virtual tour are often used to describe a variety of video and photographic based media. The word panorama indicates an unbroken view, so essentially, a panorama in that respect could be either a series of photographs or panning video for thousands of hotels and resorts across the world. Oct 2, 2007 HRG HRG Health Research Group HRG Hogg Robinson Group HRG Herausgeber (German: Editor) HRG Hurghada, Egypt (Airport Code) HRG Horn Rimmed Glasses (TV Show character, Heroes) HRG today announced that it has launched an expense management tool that allows for automation of the expense process including pre-trip approvals, corporate card integration and receipt imaging, through expansion into the full HRG Expense Management tool. Oct 4, 2007 Japan Airlines, Expedia Japan Airlines offers hotel reservations. Japan Airlines (JAL JAL Jalisco (Mexican state) JAL Jalapa (Guatemala territorial division) JAL Jump And Link JAL Japan Airlines Company, Ltd. ) customers visiting the carrier's website will be able to access an online hotel reservation service, through Expedia Japan. The Japanese language Japanese language Language spoken by about 125 million people on the islands of Japan, including the Ryukyus. The only other language of the Japanese archipelago is Ainu (see Ainu), now spoken by only a handful of people on Hokkaido, though once much more widespread. hotel booking site contains details of more than 34,000 hotels in 140 countries, while Expedia has its own travel specialists who visit the properties to ensure information is accurate. Visitors to the site can also take a 360 degree tour. From now until the end of December this year, JAL and Expedia Japan will run a promotional campaign so that everyone connecting to www.jal.co.jp to make a hotel booking at www.expedia.co.jp, will earn 100 bonus miles from the JAL's frequent flyer frequent flyer Hospital practice A popular term for a Pt who is regularly admitted to a particular ER or health care facility, for various reasons programme, the JAL Mileage Bank. JAL already has tie-ups with four other online hotel booking websites that offer passengers a choice of 20,000 hotels outside Japan. Expedia Japan's addition takes that choice to 34,000. Oct 2, 2007 Kansas City Airport Megadata announced that Kansas City International purchased a subscription to PASSUR Pulse, which will help increase its capture of landing fee revenue. Oct 2, 2007 Spirit Vacations Spirit Vacations is offering a multitude of specials including up to 50 percent off packages and room credits and other value-added inclusions at properties throughout the Caribbean. Oct 3, 2007 Unisys, Air France Cargo Unisys said the Air France cargo network went live via the Unisys-operated Cargo Portal Services, an electronic booking and management service. 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