Priceline.com, the name-your-price airline ticket company has lost one of its key backers.
HIGHER hotel prices, airline capacity cuts and rising travel demand mean travelers will have to work harder to find a good deal in 2012.
But would even the most penny-pinching cut-price airline be able to sell tickets to passengers on flights that have an empty cockpit?
Take EasyJet, the cut-price airline featured in ITV's on-going Airline series, currently in production for series four, and due back on air in June.
Last October, the news that Delta would close Song, the low-price airline it started to compete with JetBlue, was greeted with relief at JetBlue headquarters.
Patterned after the technology used to price airline tickets and hotel rooms, the software weighs competitors' rental rates, market conditions, seasonal trends and hundreds of other variables to recommend the highest feasible rent for each apartment at a given time.
The low-price airline says it has been able to maintain its normal flight schedule.
Sawada introduced cut-price airline travel in heavily regulated, high-cost Japan.
Mazraati and Alyousif [50] explained the effect of jet fuel prices, airline ticket prices on the fuel consumption and travel demand.
It gives you most of the data you need to make a decision (price, airline, departure and arrival times, number of stops), but then sends you to Orbitz or directly to an airline Website to make the purchase.
David Neeleman has founded two cut-price airlines: JetBlue in America and Azul in Brazil.
