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| Nolitours adds WestJet flights |
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Expands Florida programme
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| Ft.Lauderdale beach | | Nolitours has added WestJet flights to their Florida flying schedule beginning January 29 with departures from Toronto. These new WestJet flights mean Nolitours will offer daily flights to Orlando and Tampa, and to Ft. Lauderdale Monday through Saturday. Air Transat flights are available to Orlando on Friday and Saturday and Ft. Lauderdale Saturday and Sunday. Nolitours’ programme features a selection of over 80 hotels, condos and vacation homes in Orlando, Clearwater, Sarasota, Naples, Fort Myers, St. Petersburg, Daytona, Cocoa Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood Beach, Miami, Key Largo, New Smyrna Beach, North Redington Beach, and Palm Beach.
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| US will do it first |
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Online bookings will exceed offline next year
Online research and forecast firm PhoCusWright predicts that next year, for the first time, online bookings in the US will exceed offline. The report found that the advanced level of the US online travel market creates an atmosphere in which many innovations such as dynamic packaging (the ability of consumers to put together their own packages by selecting air, hotels, car rentals etc.), meta-search and user-generated content, start in the US before expanding to other global markets.The report analyzes the US travel market by segment, channel and major players, projecting trends through 2008.
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| Up up and away |
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Highest ever number of flights recorded in 2006
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| so many seats... | | A record 3.3 billion seats were available on 28.2 million scheduled airline flights in 2006. That represents an average daily offering of more than nine million seats on 77,371 individual daily flights, offered by scheduled airlines – including low cost carriers - according to global travel and transport information company OAG. The total number of seats available was up by 3.4% against 2005. Scheduled flights increased 1.8% with 2,856 new direct or re-instated services being introduced during the year.
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| St. Lucia names new minister of tourism |
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Chastanet also takes CTO chairmanship
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| Allan Chastanet | | St. Lucian prime minister, Sir John Compton, named hotelier, Allan Chastanet, as the new minister of tourism and civil aviation., Mr. Chastanet will also assume the chairmanship of CTO. In naming his choice, Sir John said, “In our drive to diversify and modernize our economy we’ve invested heavily in tourism, both by the private and the public sectors. This area will, in the foreseeable future, be the lead sector in our economy, providing not only jobs, but also impacting on our social and economic life. “It is therefore important that we have at our disposal, persons who have the vision, the knowledge and the experience to guide us in this important area of the economy. I have therefore invited Mr. Allan Chastanet to serve.
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| Delta wants to be alone |
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But USAirways remains a persistent suitor
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| Jerry Grinstein | | Delta Air Lines "unanimously rejected" an unsolicited bid from USAirways after its board of directors concluded that creditors, stakeholders and the public are best served by the Delta moving ahead with its own standalone reorganisation plan. Delta filed its plan of reorganization with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York while launching a major public relations blitz to prove its strategy is better than the US $8.4 billion hostile takeover offer from US Airways.Delta argues that it has considerably strengthened its financial condition as a result of its ongoing restructuring initiatives.
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| NCL juggles fleet in fall |
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Longer Hawaii itineraries and more service from Miami
NCL Corp. will restructure its North America fleet rotation in fall 2007. Norwegian Sun will move from Hawaii service in October and Pride of Aloha will begin longer inter-island Hawaii itineraries as of September. With the Norwegian Sun out of its Hawaii rotation, NCL Corp.'s Hawaii fleet will be reduced to three American-flagged ships: NCL America's Pride of Aloha, Pride of America and Pride of Hawaii.
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