| Avid travelers rejoice! Your time has finally come...to | | | | Having said that, it seems that Online Regional, while |
| your smartphone. | | | | none too late in the game, just may not be the first. |
| An Isle of Man travel agency by the name of the | | | | British Airways just announced recently that users of |
| Online Regional Travel Group has just launched what | | | | the Apple iPhone 3G can now book their flight |
| just might be the world's very first worldwide travel | | | | arrangements with BA through their iPhones. |
| agent for smartphone devices. | | | | An additional appeal of the JustTheFlight mobile |
| The technology is available on their website, | | | | software that gives travelers a good idea of what |
| empowering visitors to utilize the site's many tools for | | | | they can expect from all the competing global travel |
| easily searching and booking (and paying for, by credit | | | | sites for mobile devices that will undoubtedly start |
| card) travel arrangements all over their smartphones. | | | | cropping up all over now, is all the extra features it |
| Obviously the convenience and usefulness of this | | | | offers. By using the site's application on your |
| technology is without question.By at least one count, | | | | smartphone you can view updated airline news and |
| already 20% of population of the U.K. has internet | | | | travel news, study up on various holiday guides and |
| access through their cell phones. Its innovation seemed | | | | destination guides, and read all the latest travel-related |
| only a matter of time. | | | | feature stories. It's like an in-flight magazine on-demand |
| What merits real question is is why doesn't this already | | | | over your smartphone. |
| exist? Just a simple Google search for Smartphone | | | | Further, business tavelers and corporate customers |
| Travel will show you how meager the selection travel | | | | can look forward to enjoying multilingual and |
| tools for smartphones really is (mostly currency | | | | multi-currency options, along with a bevy of other tools |
| converters, world clocks, translators, and GPS-related | | | | to make busines travel easier and more enjoyable. |
| software. And with companies like Orbitz and | | | | As we mentioned already, seeing it now, it seems like |
| Travelocity and Priceline eating up the online travel | | | | it was only a matter of time before such a utility |
| industry, why has it taken this long for a company to | | | | existed for smartphones, so much so that it forces |
| make such services available over the smartphone, | | | | one to ask, "What took it so long?" As JustTheFlight |
| today's PC? | | | | makes abundantly clear, before long we will all be |
| The reason is actually quite simple: flight information is | | | | handling all our travel arrangements through our |
| updated constantly, making it extremely difficult to | | | | smartphones. And travel agents, alas, may go the way |
| provide through most distribution channels with any | | | | of home milk delivery. |
| reasonable due haste. | | | | |