Airlines

SOURCE: Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport Air Transport Research Society Honors Airport for Eighth Consecutive Year ATLANTA, GA–(Marketwire – July 13, 2010) –  For the eighth year in a row, the Air Transport Research Society (ATRS) has recognized Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport’s world leadership in airport efficiency. The Global Airport Efficiency Excellence Award is a reflection of Hartsfield-Jackson’s productivity, efficiency and low costs, including the lowest passenger costs for the airlines.

SOURCE: The Hertz Corporation PARK RIDGE, NJ–(Marketwire – July 13, 2010) –  Hertz Global Holdings, Inc.

SOURCE: Mitch-Stuart, Inc. LAGUNA NIGUEL, CA–(Marketwire – July 13, 2010) –  Mitch-Stuart, Inc., the nation’s leading provider of travel packages for charitable fundraising, celebrates its sixteenth anniversary this year with a sweet milestone — it has generated an estimated billion dollars for charitable organizations since 1994. The company’s travel packages and services have been used by thousands of organizations including American Red Cross, United Way, Catholic Charities, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boy Scouts of America and many other social services, arts, education and health organizations. Company founders Michelle Cohen and Stuart Paskow were successful fundraising professionals in the early 1990s when they created and launched the first nonprofit rewards program for the airline industry, the Frequent Funder Awards Program®

SOURCE: Sundance Vacations Winner Selected by Sundance Vacations’ Facebook Community WILKES-BARRE, PA–(Marketwire – July 13, 2010) –  Sundance Vacations today announced that Faye Shank of Hanover, PA is the winner of the Final Facebook Cruise Giveaway Contest. This is the last cruise giveaway in a series of Facebook contests by Sundance Vacations to give away six free cruises between April and June

TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – July 13, 2010) – Air Canada, American Airlines, Continental Airlines, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines and US Airways have formed the Open AXIS Group.  The Open AXIS (Airline XML Integration Standard) Group was created to promote a standardized XML (eXtensible Markup Language) schema as the optimal electronic messaging structure for airline system connectivity used in content distribution. The Group also invited the Airline Tariff Publishing Company (ATPCO) to serve as the founding Allied Member. The Open AXIS Group’s mission is to expand the adoption, promotion, enhancement and maintenance of a robust airline industry standardized XML schema capable of delivering comprehensive functionality to both the supply and demand sides of the travel supply chain

SOURCE: Spigit Appoints C-Level Executives, Adds High-Profile Customers to Its Roster and Increases Revenue, With a Focus on Continued Growth for the Second Half of the Year PLEASANTON, CA–(Marketwire – July 13, 2010) –   Spigit , the leader in collective idea management software, today reported record business results for the first half of fiscal 2010, including new customers and products and considerable revenue growth. “Our financials for the first half of 2010 were outstanding, achieving record bookings and revenue that’s the strongest since our inception in 2007,” said Paul Pluschkell, CEO and co-founder of Spigit.

SOURCE: Travel Ad Network NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwire – July 12, 2010) –  The Travel Ad Network (TAN), the leading vertical ad network in travel and the web’s largest travel information source in the US, today announced that it has added Skyscanner.com to its exclusive portfolio of more than 300 trusted travel websites.  Skyscanner, the UK-based metasearch company, is Europe’s #1 flight search engine by traffic and has marked 2010 as its year for expanding into North America. Nearly 10 million visits worldwide to the site are recorded each month, generating 50 million flight search queries per month. Skyscanner referrals generate in excess of $75 million in revenue to its airline partners every month and the business has seen a growth of 230% year over year. In June, they attracted nearly 540,000 US user sessions but expect to see well over 1mm per month by the end of the year.  As Skyscanner’s sales representation in North America, TAN will be marketing display, behavioral and lead generation ad products including the ability to fully integrate airline pricing into its metasearch results for North America as well as the Skyscanner global footprint. “We are thrilled to partner with Travel Ad Network to accelerate our growth in North America and leverage their traction with advertisers and advertising agencies. The relationships we have with our partners are as important to us as the relationship we have with users so we are very pleased to be working with such a key company as TAN,” says Skyscanner CEO Gareth Williams

SOURCE: Invicta Group Inc. Final Numbers Expected to Be Released in Mid August CHICAGO, IL–(Marketwire – July 12, 2010) –  Invicta Group Inc. ( http://www.ivitgroup.com ) ( PINKSHEETS : IVIT ) is pleased to announce the preliminary estimates of Operations for the Three Months Ended June 30, 2010 Compared to the Three Months Ended June 30, 2009 that show an estimated increase of approximately 2000% in Gross Revenues.  The Invicta Group is a conglomerate that utilizes shared resources to create synergies between their projects and companies. At the present time the company is involved with the following projects: St

SOURCE: Compete Consumers Hit the Web to Plan a Summer of Fun in the Sun BOSTON, MA–(Marketwire – July 12, 2010) –   Compete , a Kantar Media company, today released its rankings of the top ten sites in four vacation-related categories: Car Rentals, Theme Parks, Airlines and Vacation Packagers for May 2010 based on data from the company’s panel of two million US-based internet users.  Grounded for Summer In the past month, the number of unique visitors (UVs) to Car Rental sites increased 14.11 percent while traffic to Airline sites remained flat. Perhaps this summer, consumers are opting to drive rather than fly.

SOURCE: ExcelAire RONKONKOMA, NY–(Marketwire – July 12, 2010) –  ExcelAire ( www.excelaire.com ) will be hosting an International Business Aviation Council (IBAC) IS-BAO (Business Aircraft Owners) introduction workshop on July16th and an auditor accreditation workshop on July 17 at its facility in Ronkonkoma, NY.