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Traffic down 15% at BHM in April
The Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport saw a 15.4 percent drop in passenger traffic for the month of April compared to a year ago, according to a report released Thursday. In April, 860,0...
FAA Withdraws Proposed Repair Station Rule
Notice of Proposed Rule Making to revise the system of ratings and require repair stations to establish a quality program. The withdrawal followed more than 500 comments from the public. If enacted, t...
AAA predicts fewer Missourians will travel during July 4th holiday
AAA projected. The automotive association said it expects 720,000 Missourians to travel 50 miles or more during the holiday, down 3 percent from 744,000 last year,
Kayak calls Microsoft out on travel search redesign
Microsoft's Bing travel search tool looking too similar to its own. While the Farecast-powered travel search provides differing results from Kayak's, the company is citing its similarity in look and f...
Southwest Airlines opens holiday schedule
said Tuesday that it has opened its Christmas holiday schedule for early sale for travelers who like to stay ahead of the holiday rush. Dallas-based Southwest (NYSE: LUV) is allowing travelers to boo...
AI to let staff work for rival airlines
NEW DELHI: In a last-ditch effort to trim flab painlessly, crisis-ridden Air India has allowed its employees to go on leave without pay for two to five years. More importantly, it even allowed empl...
CMH Introduces Early Bird Credit for Heli-Skiing & Heli-Hiking Trips
CMH (Canadian Mountain Holidays), the world's largest Heli-Skiing and Heli-Hiking operator, has announced an early booking credit for everyone who books before June 15, 2009. For the 2010 He...
State will not penalize airline for fuel dump before emergency landing
The state Department of Ecology will not pursue enforcement action against Asiana Airlines, the operator of an airliner which jettisoned 5,000 gallons of jet fuel over Puget Sound prior to an emergenc...
Mahindra plans no-frills hotels
By Suprotip Ghosh, Hindustan Times, New DelhiMcClatchy-Tribune Regional News May 27--MUMBAI -- After low-cost housing and low-cost hybrid technologies, the Mahindra Group is foraying into low-cost hol...
Ocean Sky on a buying spree
Kurosh Tehranchian, CEO of UK-based Ocean Sky Aviation (Booth No. 1251), announced at EBACE that the company has received from its shareholders $48 million in additional funding, which the company pla...
Malaysia Airlines ranked 5-star airline
Moody's Investors Service on Wednesday downgraded the ratings on several South Korean banks and placed a host of lenders in Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines on rating watch.
Vancouver tourism braced for plunge this year
Vancouver's tourism industry is braced for one of the worst years ever.Officials are predicting a seven-per-cent drop in overnight visitors during the next three months, and up to a 20-per-cent drop o...
Republic Airways to buy Midwest Airlines
TPG Capital , a Fort Worth, Texas-based private equity firm. The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals and is expected to close in four to six weeks. The announcement comes a day after Repu...
Unclear what happens to personal info with Clear
(AP)
AP - More than a quarter million people are wondering what will happen to their fingerprints, social security numbers, home addresses and other personal information now that a company that sped them through airport security is out of business.
Commuters could use phone to pay for travel - Daily Telegraph
Mobile phones being used as a swipe and go card, working in a similar way to the Oyster system in London Photo: GETTY Lord Adonis, Transport Secretary, has announced an inquiry into the technology which could overhaul how tickets are paid for and ...
Forensic analysis of Air France Flight 447's bodies indicates plane did not blow..
The preliminary forensic analysis made in some of the rescued bodies of Flight 447's passengers shows that they did not suffer any burns, said local daily O Globo published on Friday. According to the...
Hilton plans long-term stay in NZ as it eyes more hotels
Global hotel operator Hilton wants to open more New Zealand hotels, vowing the recession is making little difference to the chain which has come here for the long haul.Ashley Spencer, Hilton's vice-pr...
Air travel - how to eat better on the way there
Customers are helped at a ticket counter at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International. Average airfares at the airport has long ranked as among the highest, if not the highest among the nation's larg...
One-tank escapes for seven cities
(Budget Travel) -- This summer, the key words are "quick" and "easy." But you still want a trip that delivers. So, hit the road! These seven drives are real getaways -- even if the...
Alaska Airlines boosts Hawaii services
Alaska Airlines is adding service between Oakland and Hawaii. The airline will start four-times-weekly service between Oakland, Calif., and Kahului Nov. 9. Service three times a week between Oakland...
Du begins summer celebrations as gold sponsor of Al Ain Mall Travel Season cam..
In a move to reach-out to customers in Al Ain, Du, the UAE's integrated telecom services provider, is joining in Al Ain Mall's celebrations for the summer, as gold sponsor of its 'Travel Season' campa...
48 hours in Berlin
Since the fall of its infamous Wall and German national reunification, Berlin has refurbished and reinvented itself. Neil Taylor examines the former hub of the Cold War and reveals the essential check...
IFA Hotels and Nakheel hand over Golden Mile, Palm Jumeirah residences in Dubai
May 31, 2009 - 07:02 - Dubai, 31 May, 2009 (WAM) - Owners of Golden Mile, Palm Jumeirah started receiving the keys to their residential units earlier this month from joint venture partners Nakheel and...
International travel still dropping
International Air Transport Association reported Wednesday. An acceleration of fare discounting led to a demand increase on North Atlantic routes. North American carriers, who experienced a 13.4 perc...
Airlines rush to offer Wi-Fi aboard planes
Jess Hollman works at Denver International Airport. Soon she'll have the Internet aboard flights too. (John Prieto, The Denver Post) Connections — the wireless kind — are starting to...
NTSB Investigates Speed Data On Airbus A330s
US aviation safety investigators are looking into possible anomalies with air speed and altitude indicators on two Airbus A330 jets, officials said Thursday. The National Transportation Safety Board,...
Booze cruise slump takes fizz out of Majestic Wine
Majestic Wine, the wine warehouse chain, is suffering a hangover after its full-year profits slumped by more than 50 per cent, hit by a sharp fall in "booze cruises" to its outlets in northern France ...
Black leaders unhappy about Delta Air Lines’ diversity
Tommy Dortch: “There needs to be a national spotlight on Delta,” says the past chair of the Atlanta Business League, founder of the Georgia Association of Minority Entrepreneurs, and cha...
Airlines first-quarter perfomance best in 15 years
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. airlines have been posting some of their best on-time performance numbers in 15 years as airlines wind down their capacity in wake of the recession. In a Tuesday release...
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