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More bodies recovered from Air France jet crash area
RECIFE, Brazil - Brazilian and French search teams on Tuesday recovered more bodies from the debris of an Air France jet that plunged into the Atlantic last week, killing all 228 people on board, Braz...
Airlines replacing part after crash
RECIFE, Brazil -- Airlines moved quickly Tuesday to replace speed monitors like those suspected of feeding false information to the computers on Air France Flight 447 and possibly leading the plane to...
Accertify helps nail the fraudsters who lurk on the Web - Chicago Sun-Times
We can never know with absolute certainty the true identity of those we correspond with online. Still, in recent years, hundreds of millions of us have published profiles on sites like Facebook and MySpace that reveal our personal tastes, biographies ...
Occupancy at Houston-area hotels down 10 percent in April
The occupancy rate at Houston area hotels fell nearly 10 percent in April, compared with April 2008. Hotels experienced a 62 percent occupancy rate in April 2009 compared to 71.9 percent in April 200...
City gives out money to help Palace attract more tourists
By Seth Tupper, The Daily Republic, Mitchell, S.D.McClatchy-Tribune Regional News May 5--The city is contributing $30,700 to projects aimed at making the Corn Palace more tourist-friendly this summer,...
Airspace crossed, controllers say planes too close
M EMPHIS, Tenn. — The FAA says a "significant error" by an air traffic controller in Memphis put two airliners too close together in the skies over Kentucky last week. Both planes took evasive ...
Downtown Orlando's Grand Bohemian Hotel gets a new GM
By Sara K. Clarke, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla.McClatchy-Tribune Regional News Jun. 24--There's a new general manager at the Grand Bohemian, downtown Orlando's only luxury hotel. Sholeh Kia started work...
Hotel letter raises questions on Dallas City Hall
By Rudolph Bush and Dave Levinthal, The Dallas Morning NewsMcClatchy-Tribune Regional News May 16--Before last Saturday's vote on the controversial Dallas convention hotel, top city officials insisted...
Cyprus Air Cancels Lease Deal For 2 Planes
Cyprus Airways has cancelled a lease deal for two aircraft from an Irish company after inconclusive talks on their delivery date, the airline said on Wednesday. The airline, which is majority state c...
Airline under surveillance after crash
Paris - Yemenia Airways must make "very big efforts" to avoid being blacklisted in Europe following the Airbus crash off the Comoros, the French transport minister said on Friday. "This company is ...
Summer Season Brings Great Travel Deals
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Malaysia Airlines and Royal Brunei Airlines expand codeshare to Borneo
Malaysia Airlines and Royal Brunei Airlines will codeshare on flights between Bandar Seri Begawan and Kota Kinabalu as well as between Bandar Seri Begawan and Kuching effective 1 July 2009. Malaysia ...
Recession hits Kenya Airways with US$75mln loss
The global recession and high fuel prices have caused Kenya Airways to post a loss before tax of Ksh5.6 billion (US$75 million) for the 2008 fiscal year, the airline said Friday. Ending 31 March, t...
Senate committee OKs F/A-18 fighter jet funding
Boeing Co. U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., said she lobbied for the restoration of nine F/A-18 aircraft that had been cut from the budget by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, increasing the autho...
Volaris Airlines Launches First International Service at LAX
WHAT: Volaris -- Mexico's leading low-fare air carrier -- launches its first international service at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and welcomes its inaugural flight from Toluca, Mexico a...
Obama makes no mention of Vegas tourism remark
No apologies. No clarifications. No setting the record straight. President Barack Obama's speech at a Harry Reid fundraiser Tuesday night made no reference whatsoever to the remarks that sent Vegas...
Buckling Roads Cause Travel Troubles Along I-380 - KCRG.com
HIAWATHA - It's not quite as hot as it's been recently, but the heat continues to cause trouble on Iowa roadways. The latest trouble: the pavement buckled on Interstate 380 just north of the Boyson Road exit in Hiawatha Sunday afternoon. That forced ...
Tourism minister declares Japan safe from new-flu threat
TOKYO — Japan is now safe from the threat of the outbreak of the H1N1 influenza epidemic, tourism minister Kazuyoshi Kaneko said Friday. ‘‘There is no need to refrain from traveling...
Hotel zoning request dropped
By Alex Jacobs, Watertown Daily Times, N.Y.McClatchy-Tribune Regional News May 13--POTSDAM -- Karl H. Schreyer withdrew his application for an area variance to increase the allowed height on a propose...
Oahu hotels fare better than N. Isles
Oahu was the only Hawaiian island to see growth in hotel occupancy for the week ending May 23. As compared to the same week in 2008, Oahu occupancy was up 1.3 percentage points to 76 percent. Oahu r...
A year after fire, Big Sur welcomes a surge of visitors
By Lisa M. Krieger, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.McClatchy-Tribune Regional News May 23--Battered by fire and then the economy, the beleaguered Big Sur community is rejoicing at the near-miraculous co...
World's top ten weirdest hotels
MANY a jaded frequent traveller has been known to remark that after a while, the world's large hotels all seem the same - only the views from the windows change.
Malaysia Airlines and SriLankan Airlines expand codeshare partnership
Malaysia Airlines and SriLankan Airlines today signed an agreement to enhance their longstanding codeshare partnership, signifying a strengthening of the close co-operation between the two Asian carri...
'Hagwon' May Close Before 10 PM
By Na Jeong-ju Staff Reporter ``Use all available means to cut private education costs for parents with schoolchildren and normalize public education.'' Days after President Lee Myung-bak gave ...
Continental halves number of seats to Mexico
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AP - Continental Airlines, the biggest U.S. carrier to Mexico, said on Friday it will cut in half the number of seats it flies to that country as swine flu worries keep travelers home.
Southwest’s Milwaukee move to benefit business travelers
’ entry into the Milwaukee market is likely to benefit some business travelers, even though the discount air carrier historically has attracted a high percentage of leisure passengers, according...
What’s behind the fear of flying
And news of accidents, such as the presumable crash of Air France Flight 447 over the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday, have restimulated this fear in a lot of otherwise rational people who know that driving ...
Attractions see drop in visitors
The number of visits to Scotland's tourist attractions fell by 4.3% last year, new figures have shown. Research for tourist body VisitScotland blamed poor weather and economic conditions for the drop...
Autopsies Suggest Air France Jet Broke up in Sky
Brazilian Navy sailors pick a piece of debris from Air France flight AF447 out of the Atlantic Ocean, some 745 miles (1,200 km) northeast of Recife, in this handout photo distributed by the Navy June ...
Airlines post 78% on-time arrival rate
U.S. airlines improved their on-time arrival rate in March to 78.4 percent from the 71.6 percent a year earlier. However, the rate fell from February, when 82.6 percent of flights were on time, accord...
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