Hotwire this week added in historical tracking of airfare. Hotwire also added historical hotel rate tracking which I believe may be a first.
Here’s the Hotwire chart
Here’s the FareCompare Historical chart. This went live in Mar ‘06.
I’ve been playing around with Yahoo’s pipes platform. It’s a powerful tool you can use to create specialized news feeds.
I created a test news tracker for Delta Air Lines. If this works, I plan on creating trackers for the other airlines.
If I did this correctly, the tracker should give you the top news for Delta […]
Ever wonder what the FAA sees when it’s tracking flights across the US? Aaron Koblin has a video called Flight Patterns that gives a visual representation of flight traffic patterns (Quicktime required).
Last year Google rolled out a very cool feature which makes it possible to fine-tune where to search for results and also provides for category filters.
I’ve set up a page here with the Top 50 US and Canadian markets. The links will take you to a Google customized search page where you can drill down […]
Flightaware has posted an unusual flight path for the test of the Gulfstream V. The flight took 8 hours and 27 minutes to complete. Thanks again to Cranky Flier.
Ever wonder how the Super Bowl affects air traffic? Check out this map showing all of the corporate jets leaving Miami after the game. Hat tip for this image to Brett at Cranky Flier.
This image is originally from: http://www.smartskies.org/superbowl_traffic.jpg but loads slowly.
The good folks at Upgrade: Travel Better are sponsoring the first travel blog awards. The categories are:
- Best Travel Blog
- Best Destination Blog
- Best Informative/Practical Travel Blog
- Best Group-Written Travel Blog
- Best Single-Author Travel Blog
- Best Photography on a Travel Blog
Please check it out and nominate your favorite travel blogs by February 12th (and don’t […]
Found a cool site that helps you to track the ups and downs in jet fuel. The site is sponsored by DHL.
The index updates weekly with a lag of about two weeks. You can definitely see the downward trend over the last four months as the price for crude has dropped.
You can also query for […]
In testimony today to the Senate committee reviewing airline consolidation, Dr. Mark Cooper, Director of Research for the publishers of Consumer Reports, summarized his speech saying:
“In sum, the antitrust authorities cannot approve mergers, like Delta-USAir or similar mergers and pretend that competition will protect consumers in the large number of markets that are presently […]
Atlanta, GA (PRWeb) January 23, 2007 — A majority of industry watchers
predict Delta Air Lines will emerge from bankruptcy alone or merge with
Northwest Airlines. Few believe that US Airways’ hostile bid will
prevail, according to preliminary results of a poll conducted by The Air Travel Channel.
Industry watchers from influential blogs such as IAG Blog and Upgrade: […]
