A Facebook Travel App!

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Imagine this. You're in Facebook, you see a friend you'd like to visit, you open an app, type in the friend's name and presto! There's your route all picked out for you! Could be by train or plane, take the routing that looks best to you and then click to book it.
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Airline Distribution Soap Opera

If you like soap operas, you’ll love watching the battles between the major U.S. airlines and their creations, the GDSs. Basically, if the airlines and the GDSs were families, you wouldn’t want to spend Thanksgiving with them - unless you had a large bottle of Jim Beam to get you through the meal.
As is often the case in battling families, it’s a fight about money. In this instance, it’s a wrestling match over who is going to pay the cost of distribution as the airline distribution model evolves.
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The Guts of Travel

Welcome to my day job--covering travel distribution for Travel Pulse Daily.

It's a battleground.

And it's fun to watch.
Jan 2012
Jun 2011