Click Your Way to a Stress-Free Vacation with US Airways Vacations
Save $100 on All-Inclusive Packages to Mexico and the Caribbean Back by popular demand, US Airways (NYSE: LCC) Vacations is offering customers more ways to save when booking an all-inclusive beach vacation. From no-frills to luxury, US Airways customers can escape to warm, sandy beaches with cool ocean breezes and save $100 at more than […]
Kulula the low-cost South-African Airline
WHAT A PITY KULULA DOESN’T FLY INTERNATIONALLY – WE SHOULD SUPPORT THEM IF ONLY FOR THEIR HUMOUR – SO TYPICALLY SOUTH AFRICAN. Kulula airline attendants make an effort to make the in-flight “safety lecture” and announcements a bit more entertaining. Here are some real examples that have been heard or reported: On a Kulula […]
HIGHER AIR FARES!
Image by matt.hintsa via Flickr Airfares are going up, it’s sure. Newly released figures from the government, confirm that airline prices in the first three months of this year rose nearly 5 percent compared with last year. And that doesn’t include baggage fees and other extra, new “creative costs” they invented. Air travel still looks […]
Emirates … more flights to India
Image via Wikipedia DUBAI: After bringing to India the double decker Airbus A-380, the world’s largest passenger aircraft, Emirates Airlines is looking at expanding its operations in the booming country which is considered by the firm as its second biggest hub after Dubai. “India is a very big market which has a lot of potential […]
Air Passenger Rights! EU Law!
This Regulation applies to: passengers departing from an airport located in the territory of a Member State to which the EC Treaty applies; and passengers departing from an airport located in a third country to an airport situated in the territory of a Member State to which the EC Treaty applies, On condition that […]
Compensation ala EasyJet
Image via Wikipedia Stranded at Gatwick Airport last night because of a first delayed than more delayed and than finally canceled flight to Barcelona Friday evening. I received the following compensation offer: Choice one: If I accept to fly Sunday evening Easyjet would pay the transfer to the hotel and the two nights hotel accommodation. […]
Virgin America’s inaugural flight San Francisco-Toronto
Image via Wikipedia The pink Champagne at Gate 12 in SFO’s International Terminal was a fitting accompaniment to Virgin America Inc.’s inaugural flight to Toronto on Tuesday. With Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mayor Gavin Newsom leading the huzzahs, the Bay Area’s low-cost airline – the only airline based in California – was making its international […]
Strikes again threaten Travel to/from Europe
NEW YORK — British Airways Cabin Crew are planning to strike for up to 20 days in May and June, dding just more chaos to the Travel Industry just weeks after the Icelandic volcanic ash cloud. British Airways informed that those new walkouts would again cause disruption for potentially hundreds of thousands of customers. The strike […]
Higher Airfares to Europe this Summer
Flights to Europe will be much more expensive this year. Airlines have cut capacity by reducing numbers of flights and ummertime demand has picked with the better economy we see in the US. That combination means fewer empty seats nd increased fares. – Be prepared for especially high fares in the high season July and August, – […]