Rudy delivers the latest travel news; Sam Shank, founder of the smartphone app Hotel Tonight, reveals new destinations and features of the app that gives you same-day, last-minute bargains on hotel rooms in major cities and at major airports; Claire Cardie from Cornell University’s Computer Science Department, describes a program consumerrs can use to weed out planted reviews–bad or good–on hotel review websites such as TripAdvisor; journalist Harriet Baskas, a former hotel reviewer for Expedia.com, gives listeners tips on how to evaluate hotel and resort reviews websites such as TripAdvisor; commecial airline pilot Patrick Smith weighs in on the mental health testing of pilots in light of a JetBlue pilot who suffered an apparent mental breakdown on a recent flight. As always, Rudy offers several travel deals during his Deal of the Week segment at the end of the hour.


