Air travel

Improving Consumer Confidence Drives Growth in Passenger Volume

by Mr. Plane on January 12, 2010

Image via Wikipedia 2009 has been one of the worst years for the airline industry. Most airlines throughout the world have been in the red, and only in the third quarter of 2009 were there visible beginnings of some passenger airlines returning to the profit zone. Air Cargo carriers have suffered further with reduction in [...]

Airline Industry Leads in Mobile Web Performance

by Mr. Plane on June 16, 2009

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Image via Wikipedia LEXINGTON, Mass., June 15 /PRNewswire/ — Five out of the top ten airline companies scored top marks for their mobile Web performance in May, according to new Mobile Web Experience Benchmark data published today by Gomez, Inc., the leader in Web application experience management and Web performance benchmarking, and dotMobi (http://dotmobi.mobi/), the [...]

Ryanair makes money again ;)

February 27, 2009 Airlines

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Money does not smell, said the ancient Romans and meant pay toilets. Now the same logic will follow up in the skies. Suprisingly, the idea is from Europe’s largest low-cost airline, IrishRyanair. It is considering taking the money from travelers who visits the toilet, said the company’s CEO Michael [...]

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Consumers Dislike Fees, But Are Willing To Pay For Choice

November 16, 2008 Aviation

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Amadeus today released a new survey that, for the first time, captures sentiment around emerging airline fee-for-service models, also known as ‘a la carte’ flying, from the people who are most impacted by them: air travelers. The telephone survey of 2,000 random adults in the U.S. (ages 18 or [...]

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