BCD Holdings shareholder John Fentener van Vlissingen's private investment firm has increased its share in U.K.-based Hogg Robinson Group to 13.14 percent, making the firm the largest single shareholder...

Alaska Air Group and Virgin America plan to merge to create the fifth-largest airline in the United States. The announcement came early Monday morning after a weekend of speculation that the two...

Travelport CEO Jeff Clarke today during the company's first-quarter earnings call said he still expects the company's acquisition of global distribution system Worldspan to close in the third quarter of...

Hyatt Hotels Corp.'s announcement in June that it is partnering with T-Mobile Corp. to install wireless high-speed Internet access in all of its U.S. hotels was the latest salvo in an ongoing high-speed...

In the first major distribution battle following the expiration of global distribution system rules one month ago, Northwest Airlines finds itself standing alone against a growing number of companies...

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration is on track to launch its next-generation airline passenger-prescreening program, Secure Flight, on Jan. 1, 2009. The new program shifts the...

Following nearly a five-year push to arrange collective buying arrangements with hoteliers, a consortium of 12 midmarket companies including Tokyo Electron America, International Sematech and Bose Corp....

The Transportation Security Administration this week said it is extending by 30 days to Nov. 21 the comment period for Secure Flight, the government's new passenger-prescreening system. TSA said it is...

Global distribution system providers this summer are expanding the deployments of their automated air ticket repricing technologies across Europe. The technology reduces typical agent refund, exchange...

Amadeus yesterday filed a request for arbitration and injunctive relief against American Airlines and Northwest Airlines and their plan to impose a $3.50 per-segment fee for bookings made through...