Media mogul Barry Diller, who owns US cable television and telecommunications companies, will move to combine his Expedia and hotels.com online travel sites. Diller's InterActive Corp, parent of both sites, has yet to determine branding, say company officials, speaking at an industry conference in Jamaica. InterActive has also acquired Hotwire.com, an opaque travel-marketing channel, for $655 million from its airline and other owners.
Source: Airline Business
China Airlines will retrofit its Airbus A350s with “all-new” cabin products, with the first upgraded widebody to enter service in 2027.
Russia’s Yakovlev and electronic systems specialist KRET have completed development of the autopilot and autothrust algorithms for the SJ-100 twinjet. The SJ-100 is the latest version of the Superjet 100, and features an increased proportion of systems produced domestically rather than by foreign suppliers. Preliminary testing on the ‘electronic bird’ ...
In-flight data provider Gogo completed its planned acquisition of once-competitor Satcom Direct on 4 December and named Satcom’s former president Chris Moore as CEO.
