Orbitz Launches Traveler Update

Orbitz recently announced the launch of Traveler Update, an Twitter-like application that encourages users to tell one another about delays, cheap parking, shortcuts, wifi spots, and other airport ephemera. The site hopes users will altruistically provide tips (via the web or mobile device) to fellow travelers. As an incentive, Orbitz will rate users based on how often they comment and how useful their comments are, offering discounts and free flights to those with the highest ratings -- no indication yet exactly how such bounties will be measured or doled out. Regardless, the updates are pretty insanely detailed, down to the level of which parking lots have available spaces at a given moment. Many updates are pointless bitchery, naturally enough, but could be especially useful when trying to navigate an airport during bad weather or other systemic delays.

Orbitz Traveler Update [Official site]