m-travel.com has highlighted that travel industry is targeting a new breed of travellers who “rely more on their mobile smart phones — the iPhone, BlackBerry or Android — to negotiate, book and manage trips they have already begun”. “They are booking at the last minute. They are booking near where they are located,” reportedly said [...]

Delta has launched its first Apple iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch travel application, or “app,” with on-the-go features and tools that customers can use to check in and view their flight status; review their SkyMiles account balances; access boarding passes; view upcoming flight schedules; get airport information and weather reports; and even store a parking [...]

In its analysis, WalletPop has emphasised on expenditure pertaining to international data usage. “To the shame of many short-sighted iPhone app developers, many budget travel apps have an enormous flaw. This fatal issue could turn a 99-cent app intended to save you cash into a nightmarish drain on your cell phone bill. The problem: Many travel [...]

The rise of smartphones with browsers which can both display desktop sites and make it easy for users to interact with them has been a significant development. The travel industry expects mobile usage to continue to increase as the browsers get better. As more and more leisure travellers download travel-related applications on to their smartphones, [...]

Mobile ticketing may offer myriad benefits for both event managers and consumers, but most options still require specialized scanning hardware to read the ticket from the user’s device. Not so Twicketer, a new service that delivers event tickets that can be verified and validated right on the smartphone. Now in beta, Wisconsin-based Twicketer is powered by [...]

Russian airline S7 Airlines has launched new mobile services for iPhone users. The new S7 iPhone offering ensures that customers who choose not to download the application can experience the same interface, by accessing the service via the iPhone mobile web browser. This means that S7 iPhone users benefit from a native downloadable iPhone App [...]

BA customers flying from Heathrow to Edinburgh will be able to get their boarding pass sent directly to their iPhone from next week, as part of the carrier’s revamped mobile apps offering. British Airways is relaunching its iPhone app on Monday July 19, at the same time as launching Blackberry and Google Android apps for [...]

IN-DEPTH: Interview with Andrea Keipert, product manager – Mobile Services, Lufthansa (via m-travel.com) One of the intriguing aspects about the utility of mobile phones in the airline industry is the varied approach towards the same. Is mobile primarily about delivering service at the point of need in a customer’s journey? Would selected selling opportunities come [...]

mTrip Travel Guides for iPhone & iPod Touch hit the App store today with nine US and European city guides. Just like a personal tour guide, mTrip is there for you from planning your itinerary to guiding you around the entire city and describing tourist attractions, restaurants, hotels and more to you. “Travel preparation, sightseeing [...]

Independent apps that focus on travel needs – from tip calculators to pocket dictionaries – have been the mainstay of business travelers for several years. Now airlines and hotels have caught up to the demand – and expectations – of business travelers with their own smartphone applications since last year’s launch by Southwest Airlines of [...]

British Airways is more concerned about start-ups such as Worldmate and TripIt than mobile developments from its airline competitors. Addressing theTravel Technology Initiative’s Mobile Update, Chris Carmichael, head of ba.com and mobile innovation, said rival airlines and other travel companies were a challenge but that the itinerary planning services were of ‘bigger concern’. “My customers [...]

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