He launched hipmunk in 2010, which gives people an easy way to search for a flight or hotel.
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When Tamara Silverman showed up for a flight recently, her expectations were low.
Lauren Bernstein, a television producer, was waiting at Newark Liberty International Airport for a flight to Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Awoke at 3:30 a.m. to shower, pack and drive to the San Francisco airport for a flight to Chicago.
Several numbing days followed in a hotel room waiting for a flight home.
By late Friday afternoon of my recent tour I retreated to my hotel to pack for a flight home.
If you search for a flight, Google now will keep you updated as to the process of the flight.
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Because he had purchased his ticket for a flight at the airport just before departure, he was flagged for secondary screening.
They were taken to an immigration office for hours before being whisked away for a flight to Johannesburg and on to Havana.
However, sometimes this means there are too many passengers for a flight.
"You'll see crazy fares that are literally five times as much as what you would normally pay for a flight, " Mr. Klees says.
For the Flight Quest, the challenge is to create an algorithm for a flight management system that reduces flight delays from the current 18 to 22% inefficiency.
This is how it works: a customer on an online travel site who is searching for a flight on the desktop closes a browser on the desktop.
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For one, it didn't recognize legitimate Delta flight information for a flight that was 9.5 months out (but flights happening within the next six months were added sans fuss).
Air France had received a bomb threat May 27 for a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Paris, sources in the Argentine military and police told CNN on Wednesday.
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The trip home began with the two enlisted men being taken from Mannheim Air Base to Heidelberg, Germany, where they boarded a U.S. military plane for a flight to Budapest, Hungary.
Godin is one of the most influential business bloggers in the world and he wrote a devastating critique of his experiences on the JetBlue website trying to book a ticket for a flight.
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The weather might not allow for a flight.
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Wheelchair-service providers say some passengers running late for a flight will request immediate wheelchair service simply to cut to the front of the security line or to avoid a typical hour-plus wait at Immigration when entering the country.
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To make matters better, Redbox lets you return to any of their kiosks anywhere. (Some frequent flyers actually use it to rent something for a flight.) The techie crowd reading this is saying: Yeah, yeah, so, the disc business is still dying.
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BetOnSports has been thrust into the vortex of speculation about the future of online gaming in the U.S. after its chief executive was arrested in the VIP lounge of a Dallas airport on July 16 while waiting for a flight to Costa Rica.
Mr Ewing did not accept Mr Harvie's premise saying an increase in direct air links to Scotland would end the need for a flight to London then another flight to Scotland and added he was disinclined to do complex statistical analysis on APD.
It was the worst day of my life - at the time - one during which, from waking with a hangover to rushing for a flight to Scotland, I felt a relentless march towards what, in my developing madness, I imagined was going to be my death.
One particularly busy Friday evening at San Francisco airport as a passenger service agent, I began working a flight with a passenger line that snaked back 100-plus people for a shuttle flight to San Diego.
Smidt said he is a student pilot and De Priester is his flight instructor, but on Sunday they were just out for a sightseeing flight in her newly purchased 1967 Piper Cherokee.
If done just three times a week for two hours a flight--say, a quick trip to Santa Barbara's Elephant Grill for burritos and back--who knows?
On a recent day, Ontario resident Dennis Glassco sat in a mostly empty terminal waiting for a United flight to Houston, his belongings spread across a row of empty chairs.
The average delay for a jetBlue flight that ran late was 65 minutes, according to DOT data for the first 10 months of the year.
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