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Google takes flight -- again

Posted Dec 19th 2007 3:30PM by Tom Taulli (RSS feed)
Filed under: Products and Services, Google (GOOG)

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has given me yet another reason to use its site: now you can get flight information through the Goog.

As expected, it's easy to use. You simply type in the airline and flight number and presto -- you can see if the plane is on-time or late (see the example to the right). It's really cool stuff.

Interestingly enough, this may mean less traffic for travel sites, such as Expedia and Travelocity. But to continue its growth, Google needs to move new categories, right?

On this deal, Google has partnered with Conducive Technology, which is an enterprise solutions provider for the transportation industry. No doubt, this arrangement should get them some nice visibility.

For more on this feature, take a look at this post on the official Google blog.

Tom Taulli is the author of various books, including The Complete M&A Handbook and The Edgar Online Guide to Decoding Financial Statements. He also operates DealProfiles.com.

Booking plane tickets online? Don't make my mistake.

Posted Mar 30th 2007 1:43PM by Kevin Shult (RSS feed)
Filed under: Consumer Experience, Rants and Raves, Competitive Strategy, Personal Finance

Last month I traveled with my fiancee to a friends' wedding in Buffalo, New York. We purchased tickets online nearly two months in advance so we didn't have to worry about inflated prices or lack of seats, but to my surprise, it wasn't the price I had to worry about -- it was my seat, or lack of it.

After waiting on line after line to have my luggage and shoes inspected by the most qualified inspectors at LaGuardia Airport, we walked to our gate only to see the place mobbed by people, like myself, who just wished they could sit down for five minutes in those uncomfortable seats -- but every one was taken.

Standing at our gate with the rest of the crowd, I realized the e-tickets we purchased nearly two months prior lacked seating numbers, forcing me to stand on another line.

When I finally reached the attendant at our gate, I informed her of our situation. Her face did all the talking.

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JetBlue passengers grounded ... again

Posted Mar 16th 2007 9:21AM by Michael Fowlkes (RSS feed)
Filed under: Before the Bell, Forecasts, Bad News, From the Boards, Management, Industry, Consumer Experience, JetBlue Airways (JBLU)

If you woke up this morning expecting to take a trip on JetBlue Airways Corp. (NASDAQ: JBLU) you may want to double check your flight before heading off to the airport. The airline announced that 215 flights have been canceled due to stormy weather forecast.

The hardest hit hub was New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport where over 200 planned flights were canceled. This comprises a little over one-third of all JetBlue flights scheduled for the day.

JetBlue thinks that canceling these flights will avoid the problems it had faced back on Feb. 14th when hundreds of passengers got stuck for long periods of time (some over 10 hours) on parked planes at Kennedy airport. During that storm the airline company decided to try to get all its passengers to their destinations, a decision which had severe backlash on the company.

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