Airline buys competitor’s cheap seats so you can’t
When Danish low cost carrier Cimber Sterling found out that Norwegian Air Shuttle was holding a huge fare sale, they bought all of the cheap seats so passengers wouldn’t be able to buy any.
Using a series of fake names and a lot of keyboard stokes, the airline was able to purchase over 650 seats, successfully preventing hundreds of travelers from getting in on the deal and in all probability, sending some business back to Sterling.
BART gets official augmented reality app: “Couldn’t find the train” is no longer a viable excuse
The Bay Area Rapid Transit, in conjuction with Junaio, released “its first official augmented reality app–or, more accurately, its first official augmented reality layer.”
Augmented reality adds text or graphic overlays onto real objects as seen by a phone’s camera, and while it’s often of questionable use (like, say, turning your neighborhood blue as an homage to Avatar), it has a lot of potential to help people find specific locations faster and easier than looking at a map.
EU,US to push for new Open Skies deal in Brussels March 23
European Union and US negotiators are pushing hard for open markets in transatlantic air travel later this month.
“Both sides understand there is a really urgent need to reach a deal,” the EU’s transport chief Commissioner Siim Kallas told a news briefing Thursday after getting political backing from EU governments to forge ahead.
“The clear message from ministers is to proceed without delay with another round in order to seek to finalize a second stage deal,” he said.
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