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Several online travel sites launched a coalition Tuesday to shoot down Google's proposed $700 million buyout of flight search technology developer ITA Software, issuing a mayday to federal antitrust regulators to challenge the deal.

Travel may be down in this economy, but there's one area where business is booming: discount booking sites. With travel providers desperate to unload unused rooms and tickets, it seems like the only sectors of the travel industry that are exploding are the ones previously seen as a last resort by...

If you're feeling like a character in a Southwest Airlines commercial -- that is, you "wanna get away" -- take heart: Travel expenses will drop this month and stay low into early 2010. It won't stay that way for long, though. By the end of 2010, it'll cost more to fly to your destination -- but on...

What's keeping hotel chains up at night? Falling room rates, of course. Across North America, revenue per available room fell 19.3 percent in the first six months of the year, as rates and occupancy both tumbled, according to a new report from consultancy Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. But a hotelier's...

As a sign of just how desperate travel sellers are getting -- or perhaps one of how the Web is turning into a true free-for-all -- the major travel booking sites have been shucking their fees. Last month, Orbitz, Travelocity, CheapTickets, Hotwire, and Expedia all reduced or eliminated the fees...

So you buy an airfare at a ridiculous price -- or even a good one. And a week later, the airline decides it hasn't sold enough seats. Rather than fly an empty plane, which would cost it money, it slashes the prices on seats. Come the day of the flight, you turn to the person sitting next to you...