7 airlines to sell tickets on new electronic system
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Seven big US airlines have signed up to sell tickets through a new low-cost electronic distribution network. The announcement Wednesday of the network, Trueconnect, is the latest in the big airlines&#39; assault on high ticketing costs.
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New service will compete with sites like Travelocity.com and Expedia.
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The Department of Homeland Security is looking for some live data to feed its new Secure Flight watch-list system, so it will order airlines to fork over a months' worth of passenger itineraries. By Ryan Singel.
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Fort Worth-based American Airlines Inc. has followed the lead of competitor Northwest Airlines by adding a new charge to travelers who book tickets over the telephone or at ticket counters, in an effort to
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Agency to auction licenses for communications; consider cell phone use during flights.
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The airline said it will begin paying only $5 of the $12.50 cost of booking a Northwest ticket through a global distribution system such as Sabre or Galileo starting Wednesday.
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A system which allows air passengers to sign up for biometric scanning to speed up their journeys is being unveiled at London's Heathrow Airport.
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Ryanair will fly to seven new destinations from Italy&#39;s Orio al Serio airport as of next year and is to increase the number of aircraft based there, Europe&#39;s biggest low-cost airline says.
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US Airways&#39; 5,600 gate, ticket and reservation agents approved a new seven-year contract yesterday that will lower their wages by an average of 12.9
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Continental Airlines said today it plans to buy 10 7E7 jetliners from the Boeing Co., making it the first major US carrier to order Boeing&#39;s newest plane.
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Farecast.com, which last year began offering a service advising would-be travelers whether current airline fares are good deals or likely to fall or rise, is today launching a similar system for hotels in Boston and 29 other US destinations.
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TOKYO: Boeing could sell up to 50 of its new 7E7 planes to Japan Airlines (JAL) worth as much as $US6 billion at list prices under a deal announced yesterday.
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Primaris Airlines, a start-up US airline, plans to buy 20 7E7s and 20 737s, the Boeing Co. announced this morning. The deal still is being negotiated, Boeing said.
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Geneva: Ticketless travel will become a global reality by the end of 2007, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA) that represents over 270 airlines comprising 95 per cent of international scheduled air traffic.
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Continental Airlines has bet big on its future international business by ordering 10 of Boeing&#39;s new 7E7 Dreamliners. The airline, which is expected to lose more than US$200 million this year, hopes
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Boeing Co. BA.N will sign on Friday  deals worth up to $7.5 billion to sell 60 of its 7E7 Dreamliner  planes to six Chinese airlines, a source familiar with the  transactions said on Thursday.
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Boeing is to supply Japan Airlines with up to 50 of its forthcoming 7E7 aircraft in a deal that could be worth up to $6bn.