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| FLash | US Airways, pilots union reach tentative deal on new contract
US Airways and its pilots union agreed on a new labour contract a week after the company asked a bankruptcy judge to impose pay cuts. In a release, the airline said the tentative deal would save the struggling carrier $300 million US a year. “This is a major step forward for our company, its employees, customers and all other stakeholders,” airline president Bruce Lakefield said. |
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| FLash | Visitors from U.S. allied countries face new security checks
Closing a perceived national security gap, the United States has begun fingerprinting and photographing citizens of 27 countries, including some of its allies. Business travellers and vacationers from the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany and other countries joined much of the rest of the world in being required to deliver "biometric" information to customs officers. The program went into effect at the country's 115 international airports and 14 seaports, and will be expanded to border crossings later. |
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| Cuba temporarily shuts some hotels to counter severe electrical problems on island |
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A major Cuban government hotel chain temporarily closed at least 16 hotels across the island Friday under measures to combat severe problems in the country's electrical system. The hotels will reopen Nov. 1, said Maria de los Angeles Font, lawyer for the Hotel Riviera, among four hotels affected in the capital. “We are one of the highest consumers (of energy),” Font said in a telephone interview. “To not affect other sectors, this hotel is closing down.” Guests were being moved to other hotels.
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| Jetsgo says WestJet let Air Canada provide documents found in garbage |
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Sensitive documents about Jetsgo's operations have been handed over to the discount airline's lawyers by Air  Canada, which found them among trash while investigating their mutual rival WestJet Airlines. Air Canada had previously agreed to release the documents, which were recovered along with some of its own during a search of garbage or recycling material at the home of a former WestJet executive.
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| Air Canada Vacations Introduces Great Fall Savings to Celebrate the Start of a Beautiful Winter in Dominican Republic |
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To mark its return to Punta Cana, Air Canada Vacations is introducing a ‘Buy 1, Get 1 Free’ limited time offer as well as incredible per couple savings of up to $1360 on a wide selection of seven-night all-inclusive packages to Dominican Republic. Departures to Punta Cana are scheduled to restart October 9 non-stop from Toronto and October 10 non-stop from Montreal. Bookings are now being accepted.
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| Robert Milton, chairman, president and CEO of ACE Aviation Holdings Inc., | “RADICALLY TRANSFORMED” AIR CANADA EMERGES FROM BANKRUPTCY COURT PROTECTION
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Air Canada has completed its arduous 18-month restructuring and formally departed from bankruptcy court protection from creditors. The completion of the process which began on April 1, 2003 when Canada's largest airline took shelter under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act leaves Air Canada owned largely by its creditors, and its old shares essentially worthless.
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| A new member under the Gama Travel Group consortium |
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The Atrium Group announced earlier that it now counts a new member in Ontario under the Gama Travel Group consortium which is Eco Açor Travel Services in Toronto. This is valid starting today October 1st 2004. The agency coordinates are: Eco Açor Travel Services, 421 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 1T1, Tel.: 416-603-0842, Fax: 416-603-1560, e-mail : sales@ecoacor.com, contact: Ricardo Viveiros.
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| 11 percent more Canadians visited New Hampshire during 2003 |
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More Canadians are finding that a holiday in New Hampshire is just the antidote to today’s fast-paced lifestyles. During 2003 Canadian arrivals to New Hampshire increased 11 percent over 2002 (visits of one or more nights). The most recent statistics indicate that Canadian arrivals rose from 279,400 in 2002 to 311,300 in 2003.
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 DA VINCI TEAM APPLICATION APPROVED BY TRANSPORT CANADA
Transport Canada today approved the launch application from the Orva Space Group, also known as the da Vinci team, for a suborbital launch. The application is valid for two launches between October 2, 2004 and November 1, 2004.
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| FLash | Royal Caribbean announces commencement of conversion period for Zero Coupon Convertible Notes due 2021
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. announced that the Company's Zero Coupon Convertible Notes due May 18, 2021 are convertible, having satisfied the market price condition as of Thursday, September 30, 2004. Holders may convert their Convertible Notes into shares of the Company's common stock at any time on or prior to 5:00 p.m., New York time, on Friday, December 31, 2004. Pursuant to the terms of the indenture under which the Convertible Notes were issued in May 2001, the Convertible Notes are convertible at a rate of 15.6675 shares of common stock per $1,000 principal amount of Convertible Notes. Cash will be paid in lieu of fractional shares. If all outstanding Convertible Notes were surrendered for conversion, the aggregate number of shares of common stock issued would be approximately 13.8 million. |
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| FLash | Mount St. Helens begins releasing steam, after days of earthquake
Mount St. Helens began belching ash and a huge column of white steam Friday after days of rumblings and earthquakes that suggested the volcano that erupted with cataclysmic force in 1980 was about to blow its top again. “This is exactly the kind of event we've been predicting,” said U.S. Geological Survey scientist Cynthia Gardner. The steam cloud poured from the southern edge of a 300-metre-tall lava dome in the volcano's crater. Steam frequently rises from a lava dome in the crater of the volcano, but it had not erupted in 18 years. For the past week, scientists have detected thousands of earthquakes of increasing strength – as high as magnitude 3.3 – at a mountain best known for its 1980 eruption. |
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| FLash | European airlines: profits threatened by high fuel prices, low cost rivals
Surging oil prices and competition from low-cost rivals are melting prospects of a “modest profit” this year for many of Europe's main carriers, the Association of European Airlines reported. The AEA said its 31 member airlines posted good traffic increases in July and August. |
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| FLash | UnitedHealth says Northwest Airlines CEO Anderson joining health firm
Northwest Airlines chief executive Richard Anderson has resigned to take a top job at health care insurer UnitedHealth Group Inc., a UnitedHealth executive said Friday. Anderson will become executive vice-president at UnitedHealth on Nov. 1, senior VP John Penshorn said Friday. His comments came after the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported the move in Friday's editions. |
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