Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Web Traffic, Video Meetings Surge as Flights Grounded

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aLIB2jOAjF2A&pos=10 April 20 (Bloomberg) -- Stranded flyers created a surge in demand for travel industry Web sites and remote conferencing services as a shutdown of many flights in Europe continued through a sixth day.

Visits to aviation industry sites as a proportion of U.K. Internet traffic have doubled since Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupted April 14, according to Experian Plc.'s Hitwise Web-tracking service. U.K. visits to the Web site of the Eurostar train service, which connects London to continental Europe, rose 67 percent last week.