Travel Notes: McDonald's among top GPS searches
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TeleNav Inc., a provider of mobile GPS technology for wireless providers, analyzed the places that 17 million drivers most often tried to locate in September. Here are some of the findings:
When motorists were hungry, McDonald's was the No. 1-searched eatery. When they needed to sleep, Holiday Inn Hotels & Resorts was the top-searched hotel.
Users who wanted to shop most often searched for Walmart. And for caffeine, their overwhelming choice was Starbucks.
Business consultant Don Turner flies weekly on AirTran Airways from his home outside Atlanta to his job in Los Angeles.
But after last month's announcement that Southwest Airlines Co. plans to buy AirTran Holdings Inc., he fears that Southwest will eliminate the business-class seats he uses on AirTran.
Mr. Turner is one of more than 500 people who have signed a petition urging Southwest to keep the business-class seats.
He said he needs the wider seats and wireless Internet access offered in AirTran's business class to work on his laptop during the flights. "You can't work in coach," he said. "I don't care what other people say."
AirTran's 136 planes each have 12 business-class seats.
Southwest plans to keep its open-seating, all-coach layout after the acquisition.
First Published November 21, 2010 12:00 am
