ATPCO, the airline-owned company that collects and distributes fares and related data, acquired Routehappy, a six-year-old company that provides flight scores, cabin amenity data and other merchandising tools. Terms of the deal, which is ATPCO’s first acquisition in its 53 years, were not disclosed. Routehappy, (Startup pitch here) will…

As far as setting the tone for HEDNA’s conference in Austin, TX, Harper Reed offered quite the frame for attendees. Reed is a man of many talents, having moved from founding revolutionary online t-shirt maker Threadless to running Obama’s data-driven fundraising machine as Chief Technology Officer and then to…

In its latest bid to become the go-to flight management mobile tool, Google has added a new feature to Google Flights which can predict flight delays. As Google writes in its announcement of the new feature: “One of the most stressful parts of traveling happens between heading to the…

Routehappy has published its annual review of in-flight wifi showing that 82 airlines around the world now offer internet connectivity in-flight. The rich content for flight shopping platform published its wifi report during the Airline Passenger Experience Association’s TECH meeting in Los Angeles. In 2017 a total of 12…