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A report by online travel experts, Expedia, suggests that British holidaymakers like to book their trips well in advance and commonly opt for package deals. Those booking a holiday also tend to do so on a Monday evening, with only one in ten waiting for the weekend to come round to book a holiday on a Saturday. The report showed that Sunday was the quietest day of the week for the Expedia website.
Customers using the travel site tended to go for the most luxurious options they could find at the most competitive price. 40 per cent of bookings made are [...]

Emirates Airlines has received the accolade for best in-flight entertainment system at an awards ceremony for the sixth consecutive year. The award for World’s Best Airline Inflight Entertainment was handed over at the prestigious 2010 Skytrax World Airline Awards. The ceremony was held in Hamburg.
In 2003 Emirates introduced its information, communications and entertainment system, or ice, and has since then concentrated on continually updating it in terms of the quality of its content and technical innovation. For many other airlines, Emirates’ ice has become the benchmark against which to measure their own in-flight entertainment.
Ice is accessible on over 80 per [...]

A US court has ruled that car-sharing companies should be afforded the same legal protection as rental organisations.
In what is widely believed to be the first such ruling, a judge in Queens, New York, has deemed that the burgeoning car-sharing outfit Zipcar would be able to avail itself of the same protections under the 2005 federal Graves Amendment, which protects rental car agencies against being liable for accidents that involve their vehicles.
Supreme Court Justice Roger N. Rosengarten said that while the members-only car sharing group is marketed as an alternative to using rental cars, it would nonetheless be able to claim [...]

The founder of budget airline, EasyJet, has told a court in London that he thinks the airline is in danger of damaging the ‘Easy’ brand by piling on to its customers numerous extra charges in an attempt to make extra revenue. Stelios Haji-ioannou, who usually goes by his first name only, claimed in a statement [...]

The Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group has announced a new cash injection as it slowly rights itself from a bleak 2009.
Dollar Thrifty has advised that it has raised $300 million in revenue from a three-year financing deal which involved the private placement of asset-backed securities from its rental car operations, giving the company a much needed boost as it continues to come under the spotlight of potential takeover bids from both Hertz and Avis.
The announcement means that Dollar Thrifty has finally managed to swing back into the black over the past financial quarter as the car hire industry starts to see [...]