On the Road: Orbitzâs New Challenge: Serving the Maverick Flier
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What can an online booking site do for a notorious travel cheapskate that heâs already doing for himself?
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Northwest, Continental, and Delta have a frequent flyer alliance. Too bad they're so stingy with their rewards.
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Description: Troubled airlines have been trying to save on high-priced fuel by cutting back on extra weight. But it turns out the biggest problem is the passengers.
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The GlobalFlyer, a single-seat airplane designed to make the first solo, nonstop, unrefueled flight around the world, is a feat of engineering.
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Some airlines have taken the initiative to use satellite navigation and other tools to help smooth out an air traffic system that is plagued by delays.
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At a time when the airlines are facing their most difficult challenges in recent history, they are running through one chief executive after another.
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EADS wants to boldly go where plenty have been before and beat the likes of Richard Branson to the stars.   The European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company wants to get into the space tourism business before 2010.
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Bankrupt ATA Airlines&#39; withdrawal from Chicago&#39;s Midway International Airport presents a juicy opportunity for another airline to beef up service in the Midwest
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Travel company Cendant, the owner of Avis and Budget car hire firms, is in advanced talks to buy travel website Orbitz for $1bn. Orbitz was started by five US airlines in 2000 and floated on Nasdaq for $300m in December 2003.
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There are those few uninformed that spread ill will about commercial aviation. As is the case in just about anything, people who have no understanding of something love to pick it apart. I'm sure we all know someone who refuses to fly. Their reasons most likely include "I just don't feel safe on those things." The fact is, really, that airline travel is exceedingly safe, and becoming ever safer. I will try to explain exactly why this is. I'd also like to introduce general aviation, and relate what I know about the future of air travel. It is a sad fact that the general public knows very little about aviation, and yet has so much to say about it.
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Thrill seekers are plunking down six figures to ride rockets that haven't even been built yet, and a new airline called Virgin Galactic promises to be up and soaring in the next three years. Still, the budding space tourism industry faces a myriad of safety concerns - in the sky and on the ground - that must be resolved before any paying passenger takes off...
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Cendant, the American travel group that owns car rental shops Avis and Budget, is close to acquiring online travel agency Orbitz.com in a deal said to be worth more than $1 billion.
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Burt Rutan, a maverick aviator with Elvis-like sideburns, spread his futuristic vision last week of space travel no longer dominated by the government but by daring engineers such as himself.
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By Sheryl Jean, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Feb. 24--Lynnea Snodgrass held something rarely seen in her hand this week: a paper airline ticket.
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An independent film producerâs goal: Get to meetings by attaining frequent-flier platinum status on Northwest Airlines.
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With ATA Airlines having crash-landed into bankruptcy court last week, the future of the airlineâs Fort Wayne-to-Chicago air service isnât the only thing up in the air.
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Sam Gilliand, the chief executive of Travelocity, talks about the online travel industry, the Cendant-Orbitz merger and the woes of the airline industry.