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JetAmerica ready to launch, plans flights in small markets
JetAmerica says it will fly Boeing 737s starting July 13 between Newark's Liberty Airport and four smaller markets that currently have only minimal, and expensive, regional airline service. Those four...
Convention year counting on Rotary coup
Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau has yet to hear from the Rotary Club, which is meeting in England this week and considering where to hold the 2015
Eden launches tourism Web site
Eden Tourism Development Department , which worked with Ad Graphic Resource on the design. The site offers information on accommodations, transportation, events and activities. Among other features a...
Buckhead site eyed for 250-room hotel
A German land trust is placing a long-term bet on Atlanta real estate — despite a tumultuous economy — seeking rezoning for a luxury hotel and residences in a glitzy section of Buckhead. ...
China Southern Airlines' recruitment in Taiwan triggers response surge
Recently, China Southern Airlines' recruitment in Taiwan triggered a surge of responses; the eight positions it offered attracted 1,100 applications from candidates. According to Taiwanese media, on t...
Moving along: Good luck to arena development
Tulsa World, Okla.McClatchy-Tribune Regional News May 7--If the latest announced development materializes it will be more good news for downtown Tulsa. Since the opening of the BOK Center Sept. 1, the...
Airports still battling bird strike problem
NEW YORK - Despite renewed efforts by New York officials to keep skies around the city's airports clear of wildlife, a passenger plane was damaged after hitting a bird as it landed this week in what i...
Paul Potts Revisits Seoul to Woo, Thank Fans
Singer Paul Potts waves to the cameras before a press conference held at a hotel in central Seoul Tuesday. The winner of the hit television program ``Britain's Got Talent'' paid a visit to Korea for t...
Swine flu’s spread tracked through air travel - MSNBC
ATLANTA - In a startling measure of just how widely a new disease can spread, researchers accurately plotted swine flu’s course around the world by tracking air travel from Mexico. The research was based on an analysis of flight data from March and ...
Yosemite hotel bought by Del. North
Delaware North Cos. Inc. has added its first hotel property near Yellowstone National Park. Buffalo-based Delaware North has acquired a 123-room Holiday Inn West Yellowstone, a hotel that is less tha...
MSC Cruises Rewards MSC Yacht Club Bookings With $400 Shipboard Credit
shipboard credit when they book MSC Yacht Club accommodations on select MSC Fantasia and MSC Splendida 7-night Mediterranean sailings scheduled now through
Air France victims' injuries suggest plane broke up in the air
Sao Paulo, Brazil -- Autopsies have revealed fractures in the legs, hips and arms of Air France crash victims, injuries that, along with the large pieces of wreckage pulled from the Atlantic, strongl...
Bill aims to prevent travel abuse of pension boards - Detroit Free Press
A state representative introduced legislation today that would require municipal pension plans across Michigan to maintain all records, including travel documents, for five years. Sponsored by Rep. Tim Bledsoe, D-Grosse Pointe, the bill follows ...
American Airlines’ new Country Manager
CHENNAI: American Airlines has appointed Philip Lewin as the Country Manager for India. He will be heading American Airlines operations in India, including sales/marketing, airport operations and the ...
Flaherty appoints former judge to mediate Air Canada pension issues
The federal government on Thursday appointed a former judge with extensive business experience to mediate tough pension issues between Air Canada and its unions and retirees. James Farley, who oversa...
High-season hotel specials in Europe
With the economic crises now hitting Europe hard and the dollar gaining strength overseas, a trip across the pond isn’t such a stretch these days, especially when we’ve found ways to stretch your ...
NYC tells tourists not to worry about swine flu
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AP - New York City is including a new message in its pitch to lure visitors — don't worry about swine flu.
Want an all-American Independence Day? Try London
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AP - There are few better places to celebrate the United States and its Independence Day than London.
Golden Week arrivals to Hawaii up 12.5%
Golden Week was forecast to be a bit brighter in Hawaii this year and statistics show Japanese tourists made the trip. JAL Group, owner of Japan Airlines, reported a 12.5 percent increase in passenge...
Airbus cuts A380 delivery target for 2009 from 18 planes to 14
Paris: European planemaker Airbus cut its 2009 delivery target for the A380 superjumbo again on Wednesday, the latest in a series of downgrades, this time blaming the economic crisis and deferral requ...
World-class climbs for amateurs
Slideshow: Climb every mountain While mountain climbing is not for the pregnant or the faint of heart, it is also not true that you need to be a triathlete or expert climber weighed down by hundreds ...
Venice Sunset travel agency recently launches in Italy. - PR Inside
Venice Sunset recently launches in Italy. The Company is made up of two people (Stefano and Alberto) who after many years working in the field of travel have decided to start their own unique agency stepping outside the lines from the traditional ...
W Hotels Transforms the Middle East Hotel Market with the Opening of W Doha Hote..
EGYPT, May 25, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- W Hotels Worldwide, the hotel category buster and industry innovator, marks its entry into the Middle East with the opening of the highly-anticipated W Doha H...
The five best spring/summer hikes and bike trails
FIVE BEST SPRING / SUMMER HIKES 1. The Eagle Walk (Adlerweg) The main trail (divided into 31 stages) runs for 280km through the northern Tyrol, from St. Johann in the Unterland region past ...
Tax on rich nations
Britain and other rich countries could be asked to accept a levy on international flight tickets to raise billions of dollars to help the world's poorest nations adapt to climate change under an inter...
Dead Sea peril: sinkholes swallow up the unwary
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AP - Eli Raz was peering into a narrow hole in the Dead Sea shore when the earth opened up and swallowed him. Fearing he would never be found alive in the 30-foot- deep pit, he scribbled his will on an old postcard.
Where to go dancing with the stars
When doing the samba, says Lance Bass, “practice near a puddle. Step up and over it before going down into the knee on the other side (for proper bounce action).” Where to go: Brazil, of course.
Cuba Prepares for
Men fish from Havana's seafront boulevard El Malecon, in front of the colonial-era Morro Cabanas fortress, May 6, 2009. The number of Cuban Americans visiting Cuba is up 20 percent so far this year an...
Pilots cashed in on fictitious divorces
HOUSTON -- Continental Airlines is suing nine pilots who it says took advantage of a loophole in federal pension laws and obtained sham divorces so their ex-spouses could collect their retirement ben...
AirTran CEO speaks to Aero Club
Wichita Aero Club Tuesday that quality service and cost structure have enabled the low-fare carrier to compete in the market. Fornaro, who spoke at the
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