American Airlines is taking its high-altitude experiment with Wi-Fi out of the trial stage and has decided to install Gogoa Inflight Internet on more than 300 domestic aircraft over the next two years.

Farelogix has introduced E-FLX, the travel industry’s first “EMD Hub” designed for issuing, storing, managing, and reporting Electronic Miscellaneous Documents (EMDs). E-FLX is currently under development and is expected to be released to market later this summer.

TynTec has announced a strategic partnership with airline industry body IATA. The partnership, which will see TynTec working with IATA on the Bar Coded Boarding Passes (BCBP) initiative, will be aimed at working with airlines and their IT providers to enhance the customer self-service experience with mobile boarding passes as well as improving airline operations through real-time ticket status.

The travel tourism industry’s exclusive Internet channel domain, .travel, is reporting an increase in adoption by major destinations worldwide. In its short history, the benefits of .travel have been highlighted by the significant number of conversions by destinations and key industry organizations.

Tripology, the leading interactive travel referral service, reports it has signed a preferred alliance agreement with Travel Leaders (formerly Carlson Wagonlit Travel Associates). The deal will launch a relationship with the Travel Leaders network of nearly 500 U.S.-based franchised travel agency locations, according to John T. Peters, Tripology’s president and CEO.

Farelogix has announced FLX Commando, a new patent-pending agency reservations tool that simulates cryptic GDS command-line functions. The user interface enables seasoned travel agents to continue using familiar, legacy GDS commands to make reservations, regardless of which content source is accessed through the Farelogix FLXT platform.