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Hurricane season can hold surprises - San Diego Union-Tribune
Besides avoiding the Caribbean altogether during the hurricane season, booking a multiple-stop cruise rather than a one-stop cruise increases the chances that the entire trip won't be ruined. Also, be prepared for the possibility that you might ...
Airline passengers bear brunt as travel agents charge commission
Abu Dhabi: Most people feel that despite the increase in airfare being expected, they will not be able to cut down on yearly travel to their home countries. The hike have come after some airlines sto...
Museum ship prepares to return to Manhattan pier
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AP - The former aircraft carrier Intrepid is ready to make its way back to Manhattan and resume its post as a floating museum.
NYC museum ship Intrepid coming home shipshape
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AP - Almost two years after being pried ignominiously from the mud by a phalanx of huffing tugboats and towed off to a shipyard for a major overhaul, the historic aircraft carrier Intrepid is returning home.
PREVIEW: United look for victory with fit-again Ronaldo
Hamburg - Holders Manchester United will be out to kick- start their Champions League title defence when they travel to Denmark to face AaB Aalborg on Tuesday. Having drawn at home with Villarreal in their opening game of the group stages, United wil...
5.6pc dive in shares of travel operator - Manchester Evening News
SHARES in Cheshire-based Holidaybreak dived today after it warned of a `more unsettled and unpredictable' trading environment. The shares fell 5.65 per cent, or 20p, to a year-low of 331p. Holidaybreak, which is based at Hartford Manor, near ...
Rice to travel to India - International Herald Tribune
WASHINGTON : Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will travel Friday to India to commemorate final approval of a landmark U.S.-India nuclear cooperation accord, a diplomatic celebration of a rare foreign affairs victory for the Bush administration in ...
India asks EU to liberalise visa regime
PARIS: India on Tuesday said the EU must liberalise its visa regime to allow free flow of businessmen and skilled professionals from the country to the continent and was looking forward to the prop...
Airline faces 40-day suspension over safety concerns
The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) will ask the Federal Court to suspend Cairns-based airline Aero-Tropics from flying for 40 days. CASA says it needs that time to complete an investigation i...
CAT to help planes avoid air turmoil
WASHINGTON: It hits aircrafts out of the blue, bouncing, trouncing and jolting them midair as if they were made of straw, an experience so unnerving that it causes tens of millions of dollars in in...
Best on-time mark in 10 years trumpeted by Alaska Airlines
Alaska Airlines said its flights arrived on time 87.8 percent of the time last month for its best performance in more than 10 years, according to the Seattle-based carrier. The airline’s unoffi...
Jordan's King Abdullah to travel to Egypt for talks Tuesday
Amman - King Abdullah II of Jordan is to travel to Cairo on Tuesday for talks with Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak on the latest developments in the Middle East, officials said Monday. High on the agenda will be the political situation in Israel in ...
Public servants crack $500,000
Four public service bosses have joined a select band of Kiwis earning more than half a million dollars a year, including the man who administers the welfare system. Social Development Ministry boss P...
Lawmaker Backs More Support for Medical Tourism
By Kang Hyun-kyung Staff Reporter A lawmaker said Wednesday that the medical tourism deficit caused by the gap between inbound and outbound medical tourists has been widening in recent years. R...
Rejection complex - Los Angeles Times
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed so much legislation in the final days of September that the sheer volume -- 415 measures rejected, 35% of all bills sent to his desk -- obscures the pattern that has emerged over the course of his tenure in the ...
IHG Announces Signing of Second InterContinental in Buenos Aires
SEPTEMBER 24, 2008. Set to open in early 2011, the property will be located on the Bahia Grande in Nordelta, a mixed-use master plan community in Greater Buenos Aires with residences, restaurants, sho...
Strike hits Eurostar services - MSN UK News
Eurostar services to and from Brussels and Lille are to be cancelled on Monday because of a strike by Belgian workers. The walk-out by public sector employees will deliver a fresh blow to the cross-Channel rail operator following a fire in the ...
Tourism minister apologizes for gaffes
By Takahiro Fukada, Japan Times, TokyoMcClatchy-Tribune Regional News Sep. 27--New tourism minister Nariaki Nakayama wasted no time putting his foot in it. The day after stating that Japanese do not l...
A death that sent a message
Among more than 1000 mourners who gathered to give Austin Hemmings a hero's' farewell, one woman sat quietly watching. The woman Mr Hemmings gave his life for was seated in the crowd at Holy ...
Travelport signs deal with Oman
Muscat: Travelport GDS, one of the world's leading global distribution system (GDS) providers operating both the Galileo and Worldspan systems, has signed an agreement with Travel Point LLC, part of A...
Etihad Airways To Start Daily Flights To Melbourne
Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways will launch non-stop daily Airbus A340 services to Melbourne in March 2009. Established in 2003, Etihad is a national airline of the UAE and has one of the world's ne...
TV3 names new Sunrise presenter
Oliver Driver, the man responsible for bringing a topless newsreader to New Zealand television screens, will replace James Coleman on TV3's morning news show
Jet Republic Takes On NetJets...
Jet Republic late last month launched a major new European fractional ownership, lease and block-charter program and revealed itself as the previously unidentified customer for up to 110 Bombardier Le...
Silver screen to wooden boards: West End bitten by Hollywood bug - The Independe..
The film version of 'Girl with a Pearl Earring', based on a best-selling novel, has been re-created as a stage production The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Glengarry Glenross, Henry V, Amadeus, 12 Angry Men, The Crucible – transporting plays from ...
Protecting your travel investment in tough times
These are perilous times for customers of airlines, cruise lines and tour companies that may be financially wobbly. Here are ways to protect yourself if a company goes under.
Inbound tourism popular during National Day holiday
The China National Tourism Administration has found in an online survey that inbound tourism would gain steam during the 7-day National Day holiday. About 33 percent of the 14,666 people planned outgo...
Avis Credit Risk Soars on Debt Costs, Travel Slowdown (Update1) - Bloomberg
Oct. 6 (Bloomberg) -- The cost of protecting bonds of Avis Budget Group Inc. from default increased about 40 percent last week on concerns that the economic slump will hurt travel and rising interest rates will raise borrowing costs. Credit default ...
Cottonwood Heights approves zoning for hotels
COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS - Faced largely with opposition, the City Council voted unanimously to approve a rezone and change nearly 11 acres on Wasatch Boulevard to mixed-used property. As about 20 residen...
Waikato captain sends Otago tumbling
It only took half a game for Waikato captain Liam Messam to send Otago's Air NZ Cup rugby season to the cliff edge in Hamilton tonight. The brilliant flanker bagged a first-half hattrick before l...
Aloft Breaks Ground in Mount Laurel, New Jersey
Aloft Mount Laurel to open in fall 2009
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