Passengers on Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air can now receive up-to-the-minute flight information via e-mail or text message for their entire flight itinerary, including segments on other airlines. The new Trip Alert System is the first airline notification solution to be powered by the FlightStats(TM) Itinerary Monitoring platform and lets customers set up a single profile
once for all future travel.

Customers who have booked a trip at alaskaair.com or with an Alaska Airlines/Horizon Air reservations call center or ticket counter since June 25, 2008, receive an e-mail inviting them to create a profile. The profile specifies the traveler’s preferences for receiving e-mail alerts to a desktop PC, PDA or mobile phone.

Hotwire’s mission is to offer unbeatable low prices on airline tickets, hotel reservations, car rentals, vacation packages and cruises. Through our partnerships with leading travel companies, we can get you low prices that can’t be found anywhere else.

How does it work? Our partners allow us access to their unsold inventory - empty seats on flights, empty hotel rooms, and unrented cars - at big savings. By showing the name of our travel partner after you book, Hotwire can get you travel deals that are significantly below published prices.

hotels.com(R), the leading provider of lodging worldwide, announced its new application for iPhone and iPod touch is available on Apple’s new App Store. The free application offers a richer mobile experience for researching and booking lodging and was built using Apple’s iPhone Software Development Kit.

“At hotels.com, we are focused on providing a beneficial service to users where and when it’s most convenient for them,” said Scott Booker, chief hotel expert and guest advocate. “We are pleased with the initial response to our web application for the iPhone and iPod touch, and hope new enhancements with the native application add greater value to booking with these mobile tools.”

Food is always something you will never have to go without when you chose to spend your vacation on a cruise.

With so many yummy selections in obvious abundance, I find that restricting myself to eating only during breakfast, lunch and dinner is extremely hard.

And why not take advantage of it? After all, I already paid for all-you-can-eat when I purchased my cruise. It’s just what makes cruising so affordable.

Crystal Cruises, winner of the industry’s most distinguished awards, has announced its 2009 Value Collection sailings, allowing savvy luxury travelers the opportunity to plan ahead and realize extraordinary savings of up to 50% off regular cruise fares aboard Crystal Symphony and Crystal Serenity.

With the launch of each new year’s itineraries and fares, the ultra-luxury line identifies cruises that can benefit from pricing
incentives in all stateroom categories. While typically offered on shoulder season dates and repositioning cruises, for 2009, Crystal is expanding its Value Collection to more than a dozen sailings of seven to 17 days through the Panama Canal, South America, the Mediterranean, Western Europe, New England and Canada, Caribbean and the Amazon, as well as Atlantic and Pacific Ocean crossings.