Better to know the model you are using, if only to understand its limitations, than to kid yourself you have moved to a deeper, model-free plane.

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By using social tools and lightweight Web apps, travel companies have moved toward a model that lets consumers experience their trips before setting foot in a plane and use discovery rather than search to make their trip, their trip, not a trip.

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Currently, airlines complain that they have to test each model of device individually, on every single plane in the fleet, and with a separate empty flight used for each test, before they're allowed to relax the rules for that model.

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