{"id":43776,"date":"2024-01-24T20:03:28","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T01:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=43776"},"modified":"2024-01-24T20:04:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T01:04:23","slug":"usage-soars-as-travel-site-app-allows-choice-of-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/usage-soars-as-travel-site-app-allows-choice-of-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Usage soars as travel site app allows choice of aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With recent aerial mishaps, travelers are increasingly exercising the power of choice\u2014specifically, the type of aircraft they fly on. Travel site Kayak&#8217;s aircraft filter, a feature since 2019, has seen a meteoric 15-fold spike in usage after the incident involving an Alaska Airlines&#8217; plane.<\/p>\n<p>This surge has propelled Kayak to enhance the filter\u2019s visibility and ease of use. Now, passengers can deftly sidestep certain models, notably the grounded 737 Max 9, a move once typical of only the most experienced flyers. The result? A heightened sense of control and confidence for the safety-conscious traveler.<\/p>\n<p>Airlines feel the turbulence, too; United Airlines has signaled a profit warning, noting the weight of these choices on their bottom line. And the timing couldn&#8217;t be more pressing\u2014recent reports of a rogue nose wheel from a Delta Air Lines jet making a solo roll on the tarmac suggest that this filter will only continue to be a go-to feature for flyers.<\/p>\n<p>Sources include: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2024\/jan\/23\/online-travel-agent-allows-customers-to-filter-out-boeing-737-max-planes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With recent aerial mishaps, travelers are increasingly exercising the power of choice\u2014specifically, the type of aircraft they fly on. Travel site Kayak&#8217;s aircraft filter, a feature since 2019, has seen a meteoric 15-fold spike in usage after the incident involving an Alaska Airlines&#8217; plane. This surge has propelled Kayak to enhance the filter\u2019s visibility and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,215],"tags":[1251,275,1250],"class_list":["post-43776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-todays-news","category-top-stories","tag-kayak","tag-top-story","tag-united-airlines"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43779,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43776\/revisions\/43779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}