The AP reports that American Airlines, "will let frequent fliers use miles to book one-way trips for half the miles of a round trip.

The airline will also let customers redeem miles to fly one leg of around trip in first-class and fewer miles to fly in coach on the otherleg. Officials at American, which developed the first frequent-flierprogram nearly three decades ago, plans to announce the changes Mondayand put them into effect shortly.

They say American is the firstmajor U.S. airline to offer a one-way award ticket at half miles. It'shard to know how many people would use miles for a one-way trip —parents driving a child to college and flying home might — and Americanofficials didn't offer any estimates."

Here's some other travel news you can use:

* HotelChatter.com released its annual Wi-Fi report that ranks the "best" and "worst" hotels offering wireless service.  With this year's report, HotelChatter editors looked, "at the hotels and chains that are putting a new spinon free and reliable service as well as those hotels that have fallenoff the reliable Wi-Fi wagon." Their editors noted one key learning from their research: "What we are seeing in 2009 is a trend towards the corrosion ofthe upkeep, reliability and "freeness" of hotel wireless services." 

* Speaking of Wi-Fi, today Delta issued a press release announcing "that it has installed Wi-Fi on nearly half of its domestic mainline fleet, making the airline the world's leading provider of in-flight connectivity.  Of more than 300 airplanes Delta operates on U.S. routes, 139 are equipped with Gogo Inflight Internet."  The press release went on to state that, "Service is offered in both First and Economy class on a pay-per-flightbasis. The cost of Wi-Fi access on a single Delta flight ranges from $7.95 – $12.95. In June, customers also will be able to purchase month-long, unlimited use passes."

* In stark contrast to Delta's announcement, The Seattle Times takes the major airlines (including Delta) to task in this article for taking their own sweet-@$$-time installing Wi-Fi service which, "could generate millions in fees."  According to the article, "Delta Air Lines and American Airlines have both stated plans to installWi Fi onboard 300 or more aircraft, though Delta has installed it onroughly 130 aircraft as of Friday and won't reach its original goal ofhaving the remaining domestic mainline planes retrofitted by the end ofJune."