When Best Western International relaunched its Gold Crown Club International frequent guest program in February, it was sure to include "no blackout dates" as a key provision. Six Continents Hotels...

Serial entrepreneur John Pino last month gave up day-to-day responsibilities at StarCite Inc., the meetings technology company he spun out of McGettigan Partners in 1999, grew with venture capital...

Northwest Airlines last week said in early June it will begin loading negotiated corporate rates via the Airline Tariff Publishing Corp.'s automated filing system into Orbitz For Business, if requested...

Airfare analyst and FareCompare CEO Rick Seaney on Thursday declared a United Airlines domestic fare increase dead after a "tepid" matching response from competitors forced the carrier to roll back its...

The U.S. Department of Transportation this month approved Virgin America's application to begin selling tickets, crossing one of the last hurdles to the carrier's launch after months of obstacles. At...

Lufthansa To End German Commissions By Amon Cohen Germany will become the next European market to see its dominant carrier move to 0 percent commission. Lufthansa has announced it will scrap

Carriers, with growing confidence in their airline contracting analytical models, are structuring deals and monitoring corporate contracts with an increasing degree of analytical rigor, airlines and...

The CEOs of Continental and United airlines were in Washington Thursday to defend their proposed merger. During a hearing held by the Senate Judiciary Committee's Antitrust, Competition Policy and...

The European Commission on Thursday approved both Delta Air Lines' acquisition of 49 percent of Virgin Atlantic and a proposed transatlantic joint venture between the two carriers. Simultaneously, the...

Galileo Joins Wireless Whirlwind By Jay Campbell Galileo International earlier this month launched Galileo Wireless, a suite of services that allows road warriors at companies that use the Apollo