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| FLash | U.S. State Department issues Guatemala travel warning due to increased crime
The U.S. State Department is warning Americans about the dangers of street crime in Guatemala after a series of recent attacks on tourists. The warning is in effect through next May. "Violent criminal activity on the highways in Guatemala has increased," it said. "Crimes against foreigners have included murder, rape, and armed robbery, increasingly in conjunction with highway banditry." It details a recent spike of criminal activity in a country that has battled soaring crime rates since the December 1996 conclusion of its 36-year civil war, saying gang members in the capital, Guatemala City, as well as rural areas are largely to blame. The statement warns against highway travel on tour buses and vans and says U.S. Embassy personnel aren't allowed to ride the converted former U.S. school buses that provide mass transit in cities. |
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| IATA Eliminates Sales and Ticketing Location Designators and More in Massive Fare Construction Liberalization Plan |
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Genesis and CSTAR President and CEO Bruce Bishins announced that he has written to IATA Director of Interline Tariffs,  Patrick Murphy, regarding concerns which arose at a three day forum in Atlanta in September 2004. Bishins, who attended the Atlanta meeting along with other GDS, airline, and travel agency personnel, is concerned that new IATA fare construction and ticketing rules, intended to simplify and liberalize the sale of international tickets via the Internet and through various e-commerce initiatives, lack the clarity and specificity to assure that any advantages which accrue to airline-issued transactions also accrue to travel agency-issued tickets.
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| Benoit Labonté Named to Aéroports de Montréal Board of Directors |
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Pierre Martin, Chairman of the Board of Aéroports de Montréal, is pleased to announce the appointment of Benoit Labonté to the Corporation's Board of Directors. "Benoit Labonté has always shown a great deal of interest in Montréal's airports because he is well aware of their major contribution to our community's growth and development," Mr. Martin said. "His arrival at Aéroports de Montréal augurs well for our airports' future, because he brings a wealth of relevant experience that will help us move forward in a variety of areas."
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| Landed immigrants to be fingerprinted, photographed upon entering U.S. |
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New rules requiring landed immigrants to be fingerprinted and photographed before entering the United States start to kick in later this month but are already being decried as racist by some activists. The procedures, which will be in place at the Blue Water Bridge at Sarnia, Ont., starting Nov. 15, also apply to those who need visas to travel south of the border.
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| Information about Austrian Airlines |
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Austrian Airlines would like to advise you that due to a restructuring of their Canadian operation, their local representative in Ottawa,  Laurel Bouskill will be leaving the employ of Austrian Airlines as of November 4th, 2004. Patrick Martinet, Deputy General Manager, would like to take this opportunity to thank Laurel for her efforts in putting Austrian Airlines on the map in the Ottawa Gatineau region. “We will all miss her enthusiasm and energy and wish her the best of luck in all her future endeavors,” said Patrick Martinet.
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| Quest Nature Tours Breaks The Ice In Eastern Arctic |
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Quest Nature Tours announced today that they will be adding 3 new departures to their Arctic Expedition Cruise program. The cruises will operate between Canada’s Baffin Island and Greenland from July 2005 until early September, the best months to travel in the Arctic. The move comes as Quest’s shipping partner has made the premier expedition cruise vessel, the R/V Akademik Ioffe, available to them for the entire season.
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| Codes share flights agreement between Swiss International Airlines and American Airlines |
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Swiss International Air Lines announced the launch of 4 new code share flights together with its partner American Airlines between Canada and Switzerland via USA. Effective October 31, 2004, the code share agreement is extended to the following flights: Halifax-New York (JFK), Montreal-New York (JFK), Chicago-Toronto and Vancouver-Dallas/Fort Worth. Since 2 years, a similar SWISS – American Airlines code share operation between Toronto and Boston already exists. With these additional flights SWISS offers a better connectivity to/from Switzerland to its clients from all over Canada.
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| FLash | Travel firm Orbitz profit soars, helped by 20 per cent surge in revenue
Orbitz Inc., the Internet travel agency that is being bought by Cendant Corp., Wednesday posted a 30 per cent jump in third-quarter profit, aided by a surge in hotel business. Chicago-based Orbitz said net income rose to $5.1 million US, or 12 cents a share, from $3.9 million, or 10 cents a share, a year ago. The most recent quarter included several one-time items: a noncash charge of $1.4 million for restructuring; $4.2 million in expenses from the Cendant deal; and a $967,000 reversal of tax-related expenses. Excluding these items, Orbitz earned $9.7 million, or 22 cents a share, in the quarter. Analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call had been expecting third-quarter earnings, excluding items, of 12 cents a share. Revenue rose 20 per cent to $77.5 million from $64.4 million a year ago. |
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| FLash | CEO Gerard Arpey warns of more job cuts at American Airlines
American Airlines, struggling to compete with lower-overhead carriers, will cut more jobs to reduce costs, chief executive Gerard Arpey said Wednesday. The company had already disclosed that it would lay off up to 650 mechanics and 450 pilots, as Arpey reminded investors during a meeting in New York. ``We will see more cuts across the board, all workers, in the months ahead,'' Arpey added. American and other carriers are losing money as they are squeezed by high fuel costs and tough competition that makes it hard to raise fares. American's Fort Worth-based parent, AMR Corp., reported recently that it lost $214 million US in the July-September quarter and expected an even bigger loss in the fourth quarter. |
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| FLash | U.S. obesity epidemic weighing down planes, pushing up fuel costs
Heavy suitcases aren't the only things weighing down airplanes and requiring them to burn more fuel, pushing up the cost of flights. A new government study reveals that airlines increasingly have to worry more about the weight of their passengers. America's growing waistlines are hurting the bottom lines of airline companies as the extra pounds on passengers are causing a drag on planes. Heavier fliers have created heftier fuel costs, according to the government study. Through the 1990s, the average weight of Americans increased by 10 pounds, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The extra weight caused airlines to spend $275 million US to burn 1.3 billion more litres of fuel in 2000 just to carry the additional weight of Americans, the federal agency estimated in a recent issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. ``The obesity epidemic has unexpected consequences beyond direct health effects,'' said Dr. Deron Burton of the CDC. ``Our goal was to highlight one area that had not been looked at before.'' |
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