Free first-checked bags on major U.S. airlines edged one step closer to extinction on Tuesday as JetBlue implemented its three-tiered fare program that includes a first-checked-bag fee at the lowest...

Conventional wisdom dictates that the farther out you buy an airline ticket, the lower the price. This maxim is certainly true for tickets purchased seven or 14-days in advance. But a Six Sigma study of...

Amtrak today announced that it has launched free wireless Internet service on all 20 Acela Express trains that run along the Northeast Corridor between Boston and Washington, D.C., and in all four of...

The debate over lower-than-negotiated room rates found on public Internet sites, which gripped the transient corporate travel industry earlier this year, now has entered the meetings arena and has some...

Lufthansa on Friday confirmed it is on track to relaunch its FlyNet inflight Internet system on the North Atlantic this year, with stress tests underway on six planes and a total of 60 aircraft already...

Steve Reynolds, former executive vice president of TRX, has joined Norwalk, Conn.-based consulting firm Management Alternatives as vice president of technical solutions, the company today announced.

Best Western International this year is completing the launch of its descriptor program, a move that separates Best Western's North American properties into three distinctive tiers: the midprice Best...

As low-cost carriers continue to grow rapidly and grab corporate marketshare from legacy airlines, distribution channels are scrambling to sign them up. Several industry executives speaking this month...

Hyatt Hotels Corp. shares began trading on the New York Stock Exchange today as the company completed a nearly $1 billion initial public offering, taking the company public for the first time in...

Frontier Airlines president and CEO Jeff Potter last month said the carrier's recently implemented marketing and referral partnership with AirTran Airways "is proving to be as successful as we had...