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MIT Global Airline Industry Program MIT has established a multidisciplinary team of faculty, staff and graduate students drawn from the Schools of Engineering, Management and Humanities and Social Sciences to study the global airline industry. The goal of this program is to develop a body of knowledge for understanding development, growth and competitive advantage in this industry, which is one of the most diverse, dynamic and perplexing of the world. The Global Airline Industry Program represents a large-scale effort that provides the means for MIT and the academic community to make a "great leap forward" in studying the airline industry and in educating its future leaders. This effort was established under the umbrella of the Sloan Foundation's Industry Studies Program and is supported by the MIT Airline Industry Consortium. What's New?
Gogobot releases iOS travel app with discovery tools and photo filters Travel, then, is a voyage into that famously subjective zone, the imagination, and what the traveler brings back is — and has to be — an ineffable compound of himself and the place, what’s really there and what’s only in him.-Pico Iyer In March of this year, I wrote a post titled, “Why Gogobot makes Google and TripAdvisor look like folding car maps.” Later this spring, Gogobot announced major partnerships with the top travel booking sites including Expedia, Kayak, Orbitz, Priceline and Hotels.com, gearing up Gogobot to be the #1 social platform for travel and wanderlust exploration. Today, Gogobot released its much-anticipated mobile app – a tool for iPhone users to explore nearby areas, discover new restaurants, bars, activities, hotels and access itineraries created on the main site. “Travel is all about discovering new experiences and sharing them with your friends and family.
ARIG: Airline Revenue Integrity Group Revenue Integrity whitepaper by Paul Rose chairman & founder of ARIG Acknowledgement of thanks to S.I.T.A. in sponsoring this paper and for giving permission to feature on the A.R.I.G. website. Introduction There can be no doubt that airlines are currently functioning in a harsh economic climate. Over the last thirty years, a large number of airlines have invested heavily in traditional revenue management solutions while ignoring the possibly greater return on investment offered by revenue integrity solutions. What exactly is revenue integrity? This paper examines the benefits to be gained from developing a revenue integrity programme and puts the case for applying a consistent approach. Business drivers There are a number of business drivers for implementing revenue integrity solutions. We have already stated that airlines must ensure that the correct passengers travel on the correct flight at the correct fare. How revenue integrity problems occur An industry focus group A.R.I.G. Benefits
41 Places To See Before You Die (Part I) No matter how advanced our cities and technology is, eventually we get tired of all the noise, stress and crowd of the city and want to be in the nature. Humans have transformed Earth beyond recovery, but luckily not everything is lost yet. Beautiful mountains, blue water lakes, magnificent oceans with fabulous islands – our planet has many breathtaking places and awe-inspiring sceneries just waiting for you to discover them. However, life is short, and the funds are limited, so we have to narrow down the selection. Knowing that you are just another lazy panda, we’ve done it for you! We’ve picked 41 most amazing places in the world, however it is said that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”, so you may as well have your very own personal list of places to see before you die. 1. Bamboos for: James Marvin Phelps , Rob Inh00d Antelope Canyon is the most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest. 2. Bamboos for: Jo@net , Goianobe , CX15 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
After posting £80M loss, Virgin Atlantic aims to trims fuel costs with new technology platform Virgin Atlantic announced a £80 million loss this week, blaming a combination of lower demand and skyrocketing fuel prices. With the airline’s fuel costs rising by nearly one third, the year-over-year loss underscores the importance of reducing fuel costs to enhance profitability for all airline carriers. Virgin Atlantic claims it is at the forefront of the drive to increase fuel efficiency, launching a sustainability initiative in 2007 called Change is in the Air. The program aims to cut carbon emissions by 30% by 2020 through a variety of measures, including longer term solutions such as its sustainable aviation fuel partnership with low-carbon fuel provider Lanzatech. The airline recently announed the latest step in their sustainability program, a fuel efficiency management tool that may save as much as £20 million and 92,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year. The tool uses technology to accurately measure performance and prioritize fuel saving opportunities.
Expedia Encourages You to Find Your Story with New App Travel and soul searching are inextricable partners. Some of the world’s greatest literary stories are hinged on enlightened journeys. Kerouac took to the road, Thompson rambled to Vegas, de Saint Exupéry’s Little Prince explored the Sahara, Agatha Christie solved murders on the Orient Express, and Hemingway ambled around Spain. And where there’s travel, there’s a definite need to find a mode of transport, though we’ll pass on the boat Yann Martel stranded his character Pi on, thanks very much. Since it launched its Find Yours campaign last fall, Expedia has been exploring this intersection of adventure and practical locomotive needs with a series of moving and, dare we say, inspiring films about people who’ve found whatever it is they’re looking for--curiosity, perspective, strength--through travel. Now, Expedia has handed the "Find Yours" storytelling over to its customers with an interactive Facebook app that allows users to make their own transformational videos.
New airline seating concept allows passengers to pay by space occupied In the recent past, the airline industry has witnessed various measures to reduce cost and increase ancillary revenue, including GoAir’s move to hire only female flight attendants (to reduce fuel cost), and Samoa Air’s decision to charge passengers by weight. UK-based design company Seymourpowell has developed an economy seating concept called ‘Morph’ allowing passengers to pay-by-space. Yes, pay only for the seat space a passenger occupies. Morph uses smart architecture to adjust both the width of the seat, and individually controlled seat pan height and seat pan depth to suit varying sizes of passenger. By default, every seat is 18″ wide (standard). This creates a scalable value offer for airlines, allows them to arrange the economy cabin by people’s wish and blurs the boundaries between various classes. For example, a family of three will be able to book large, medium and small seats in the plane for the dad, mom and kid respectively. Seymourpowell’s head of transport, Jeremy White says:
11 million downloads on, Expedia 3.0 taps live data to create visual itineraries on iOS and Android We last caught up with Expedia back in November, just as it had rolled out a new iOS and Android mobile app, adding flight information, special offers and high-res hotel photos. Now, the online travel behemoth has launched a much more significant update with version 3.0 for iOS and Android, introducing new visual mobile itineraries which are connected to the traveler’s Expedia itinerary. Indeed, the latest mobile Expedia incarnation gives travelers up-to-date information using a set of visual cues, tapping location-aware smartphone features and time-zone updates to surface the most relevant part of the itinerary. The new itineraries feature updates its information in real-time as a traveler moves from A to B, and even lets users share their itinerary via email and text message. It covers flights, displaying confirmation codes, airlines, flight numbers, travel dates/times, gate information and flight status, as well as flight maps showing pins for departure and arrival.