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Southwest and JetBlue's in-flight entertainment allows them to surprise and please passengers in ways other airlines can't or don't care to.

This is the first step in Southwest's anticipated takeover of subsidiary AirTan's international flights and to Southwest's greater route expansion through Latin America.

The jump in discoveries was not caused by any changes in TSA procedures, but rather an increase in forgetfulness or ignorance among gun-bearing travelers.

After brutal battles between airlines and travel agencies over the last few years, IATA realizes it can't push through the changes in distribution that it seeks without some buy-in from the other side. New battles may be in the offing so enjoy the peace while she reigns.

Allowing airlines to wait a decade to give blind people limited access to airline kiosks seems profoundly unreasonable.

Neither American Airlines nor Sabre got exactly what they wanted in their protracted lawsuits, but Sabre was clearly the loser. American didn't obtain an edict that the global distribution industry is an anticompetitive monopoly, but it forced Sabre to cease its hostile acts and picked up a $200 million settlement in the bargain.

The TSA finally has something consumers like in PreCheck. Can it build on its success, or will bureaucracy and political squabbles confuse matters?

The American Express-American Airlines airport lounge deal was a victim of airline consolidation. There's little need to partner with an airline, though, if Amex can build its own lounges at the airports. It's a work in progress, and we'll see how the experiment works out.

There are so few comments on the FCC site in favor of in-flight phone calls that it is obvious that supporters have been too busy conducting very important business and otherwise shooting the breeze on their smartphones to actually weigh in. Hold on.

Is Google on the cusp of destroying Skyscanner, Kayak and Expedia in one fell swoop? We've heard that kind of hyperbole before, and few obituaries have been written. That being said, it would seem premature for Google to swap out Google Flight Search for something new when the product is so young.