Travel & Travel Technology News. Dec 10, 2007 Frontier Airlines, Lufthansa Systems Lufthansa Systems and Frontier Airlines signed an eight-year contract under which Frontier will implement Lufthansa's Lido Operations Center . . .

Destination News - Hotel, Resort & Spa. Dec 10, 2007 Clear Clear installs enrollment kiosk in Denver hotel. A Denver hotel has installed a kiosk that can enroll guests in an airport-security fast-pass program. The Clear kiosk scans . . .

Destination News - Destination, Rail, Road. Dec 10, 2007 Hyatt Hotels Hyatt Hotels & Resorts plans to open four hotels in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States over the next three years. Included in plans are a Park Hyatt, a . . .

Destination News - Cruising. Dec 10, 2007 Disney Cruise Line Disney Cruise Line will call at St. Croix and Tortola beginning in 2009, as part of new Eastern Caribbean itineraries on Disney Magic. The islands will be . . .

Travel Security Update. Dec 10, 2007 Airports move flu shot stations beyond security checkpoints. Airports in several cities are setting up health stations where travelers can get flu shots to areas that are beyond . . .

Travel Safety Update. Dec 10, 2007 Lawmaker urges FAA to speed adoption of anti-collision technology. Airports need new technology designed to prevent airplane collisions, and the FAA should speed up efforts to put it . . .

Airport News - North America. Dec 10, 2007 Lawmaker urges FAA to speed adoption of anti-collision technology. Airports need new technology designed to prevent airplane collisions, and the FAA should speed up efforts to put it . . .

Airport News - Europe. Dec 10, 2007 Aeroports de Paris Aeroports de Paris (ADP) plans to increase main airport fees at Charles de Gaulle and Orly by 3.8% in 2008, down from the 4.25% hike it applied this year. The . . .

Airport News - Asia / Pacific. Dec 10, 2007 Airport Authority Hong Kong Airport Authority Hong Kong is in talks to buy a stake in Bao'an Airport in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, the authority's chairman said on . . .

Airport News - Africa / Middle East. Dec 10, 2007 Aden Airport Yemen said on Thursday Dec. 6 it plans to invite international companies to run Aden Airport, wave landing charges and offer fuel discounts to some flights to capture . . .

Low Cost Airline News - North America. Dec 10, 2007 Frontier Airlines Frontier to cut workforce by 10%. Frontier Airlines says it will cut about 100 positions in an effort to offset climbing fuel and operating costs. "Due to the . . .

Low Cost Airline News - Latin America / Caribbean. Dec 10, 2007 Click A two day strike at Mexico's low-cost airline Click ended on Monday after flight attendants got a 4.74 percent salary increase and other benefits, a union source said. The . . .

Low Cost Airline News - Europe. Dec 10, 2007 bmibaby bmibaby started four-times-weekly Birmingham-Madrid flights. Service becomes six-times-weekly next summer. Dec 9, 2007 Centralwings Centralwings will launch . . .

Low Cost Airline News - Asia / Pacific. Dec 10, 2007 Cebu Pacific Air Cebu Pacific Air, the Philippines' top budget airline, expects to sell shares worth up to PHP12.45 billion pesos (USD$296 million) in a stock market listing in . . .

Airline News - North America. Dec 10, 2007 What makes people so fussy about air travel?. Traveling on airlines is as comfortable as it has ever been, writes Pico Iyer in The New York Times. He notes that the cost of air . . .

Airline News - Europe. Dec 10, 2007 Air France Unions representing Air France ground staff at Orly Airport south of Paris called a 24 hour strike for December 20 over pay and conditions. "We're not striking at the . . .

Airline News - Asia / Pacific. Dec 10, 2007 Jet Airways Jet Airways expanded its codeshare arrangement with Brussels Airlines and added its code to SN-operated services from/to Birmingham and Madrid. Dec 6, 2007 ZZ . . .

Airline News - Africa / Middle East. Dec 10, 2007 EgyptAir The Egyptian government has cancelled a plan to sell a 20 percent stake of national carrier EgyptAir after the company's financial performance improved, state-owned . . .

Travel Health & Environment Watch. Dec 3, 2007 EC wants governments to force carriers to cut emissions. The European Commission wants European governments to force airlines to cut carbon dioxide emissions, but carriers oppose the . . .

Travel & Travel Technology News. Dec 3, 2007 Business travelers should see a major improvement in mobile boarding pass technology next year, as developments allow remote access even in isolated airports. Mobile applications . . .