Airline Websites

Google Trends, which gathers e-commerce information, says the web is now the number one choice for both corporate and recreational use.

Around 83% of private travellers and 77% of corporate travellers use it, replacing conventional reservation services such as Sabre or Galileo, which have been in use since at least the early 1970s. This means that the website of an airline can have a significant impact on its performance.

It' s nothing more than our old boyfriend Dustin Curtis, the web design engineer who had such a terrible website design for American Airlines that he sent them an furious note and suggested a complete facelift. Surprisingly, he received a reply to his correspondence from one of the website's contractors, who gave a curious insight into the difficulty of operating a company website.

"However, the issue with AA.com's designs is not so much our competence (or its absence, as you pointed out in your contribution) as the cultures and procedures used here at American Airlines," said the agent, who remains anonymous. "AA.com's group is made up of at least 200 individuals distributed across many different groups, such as QA, production scheduling, analytics, code generation, site operation, scheduling, and customer experience," the developer said.

Since then, the designers have cancelled their contracts because they disclosed trade secret, AAs Sanez said. The American Airlines website has never been so poor. Which are your favorite (and least favorite) airline pages?

The USA condemn China for "Orwellian nonsense" about airline websites.

In the midst of an escalating struggle over China's excess trading with the United States, the White House said the Chinese Civil Aviation Authority sent a note to 36 overseas airlines, among them a number of U.S. airlines, calling for changes. Airlines have been advised to delete links on their websites or in other materials suggesting that Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau are part of China neutral jurisdictions, US and airline officers said.

Taipei is China's most vulnerable territory. Hongkong and Macau are former Europe' s settlements, which today belong to China, but function largely independently. Responding to White House comment on Sunday, the China State Department said that China-based corporations should abide by their own laws, comply with China's laws and "respect the sentiments of the nation".

"Regardless of what the United States says, they cannot alter the fact that there is only one China in the globe and that Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan are integral parts of China's territory," said Geng Shuang spokesperson in a declaration on the Ministry's website. White House harsh critique follows controversial commercial negotiations between high-ranking US and China civil servants last weekend.

Trump officials called for a $200 billion reduction in China's $200 billion US surpluses in 2020, significantly lower customs duties and a stop to high-tech subsidy, said those involved in the discussions. "The group I'm with has just returned from China. We will have to overhaul China because it has been a one-way road for decades," Trump said at an evening in Cleveland on Saturday.

"He said we can't go on like this," although he also said he has a great deal of regard for China's President Xi Jinping. At the beginning of this week, Dr Trump commended his relations with Xi, but there was no sign of any significant improvement in Thursday's and Friday's discussions, which raised concerns of a commercial conflict between the world's two biggest nations.

China's top diplomat Yang Jiechi and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held a telephone conversation on Saturday to discuss China's bi-lateral relationship, while Yang said the relationship was "in an important phase," according to the China State Department. Whether the call came after or was an answer to the White House declaration was not clear - or whether the two had even debated the question of how Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau are addressed by US corporations.

Yang Pompeo said in a declaration by the China State Department last Saturday that the two nations should enhance exchange, communicate closely on business and commercial matters and honour each other's "core interests and concerns". Both China and the United States should "settle disagreements and sensible topics appropriately", sustain communications and co-ordination on key global and local matters, and "move forward bilaterally on the right path," Yang said.

TRUMPF has already suggested customs duty on 50 billion dollars of domestic goods, which could enter into force next month. 4. It has been said by China that its own countervailing duty on US goods, up to and personal protective equipment, will come into force when US customs measures are applied. The Commission has also called for Washington to ensure that it treats China's investments in the same way in the context of domestic safety inspections and to stop imposing new constraints on it.

Controversy over how airline companies relate to Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau is another area of conflict in US-China relationships. Speaker of Airline for America, a trading group that represents United Airline UAL. N, American Air Lines (AAL. O) and other large airline companies, said on Saturday that it is working with the U.S. administration to define the "next steps" in the case.

Delta Air Lines (DAL.N) apologised in January for "an unintentional mistake without commercial or political intent " in response to a request from China to list Taiwan and Tibet as candidates on its website and said it had taken action to solve the problem. In January, China also suspending the Marriott International Inc. (MAR. O) website for a whole weekend to penalize the world's largest hospitality company, which listed Tibet, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau as distinct nations in a client survey.

Seemingly intensifying the effort to relate overseas companies to areas occupied by China - even if only in pull-down web menus - highlights how sensitively the question of China's supremacy has become. Australian Qantas Airways (QAN. AX) said in January that it had changed its website to no longer designate Taiwan and Hong Kong as nations and not as China areas after China gave a similar caveat.