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| FLash | Royal Caribbean cruises ltd. expects little disruption from hurricane Ivan
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. expects Hurricane Ivan to cause minimal disruption to its ship operations. The company currently anticipates its ships to arrive and depart as scheduled this weekend. Hurricane Ivan will likely cause only minor modifications involving ports of call. Based on damage to Port Canaveral caused by Hurricane Frances, Royal Caribbean International is modifying the departure port of Mariner of the Seas. The ship will now sail its Sunday, September 12, seven-night cruise from the Port of Miami. |
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| US Airways makes last ditch offer to pilots |
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US Airways made a last-ditch offer to its divided pilots' union for a new labour contract as the beleaguered airline tries to avoid a second bankruptcy filing that may be just be days away. The offer came as the pilots met Friday in Pittsburgh, a meeting scheduled at the request of the hard-line union representatives from Pittsburgh and Philadelphia who refused to send an earlier company proposal to the union's 3,000 members for a vote.
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| Statement By The Caribbean Tourism Organization On The Impact Of Hurricane Ivan |
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The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) member countries Aruba and Curacao are reporting normal or near normal operations following the passage of Hurricane Ivan late Wednesday. The latest information as of early Thursday afternoon is as follows: Aruba – The Aruba Tourism Authority (ATA) has advised CTO that with the exception of some damage to beaches on the south coast and the closure of some roads in order to pump out water caused by the heavy rains, all services are operating and activities continue as normal.
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| itravel2000 appoints "expert" to head up Great Canadian Vacations |
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Itravel2000 is pleased to announce that Janice Ketchen has been appointed Director of Business Development for its subsidiary company, Great Canadian Vacations. Ms. Ketchen is founder and president of the Ontario Tourism Network and was most recently the Travel Trade Liaison for the Ontario Tourism Marketing Partnership Corporation, the marketing agency of Ontario's Ministry of Tourism and Recreation.
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| Delta Air Line's pullout will hit Dallas Fort Worth revenue, reduce choice |
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Delta Air Lines' retreat from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport will reduce passengers' choices at one of the busiest airports  in the United States and throw more displaced workers into a weak aviation job market. Delta said Wednesday that as part of a restructuring plan, it would cut daily flights at DFW from 256 to 21 by Jan. 31, shifting jets to Salt Lake City and Cincinnati. Delta's move will reduce DFW departures by 21 per cent and cost the airport about $20 million in revenue during the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1, airport officials said.
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| Opposition question a recent flurry of Sask NDP government travel overseas |
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Opposition parties in Saskatchewan are wondering what happened to the provincial government's self-imposed ban on non-essential travel in the wake of some high-flying NDP cabinet ministers. Industry and Resources Minister Eric Cline is currently leading a delegation of business leaders on a two-week European trade mission. He's making stops in France, Germany and Belgium. The provincial government is expected to spend almost $70,000 on the trip.
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| Court order forces Sydney, N.S., airport authority to open runway to airline |
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A court order forced the Sydney airport authority to open its runways to two Air Georgian flights on Friday morning. The authority had scheduled runway maintenance during the times the planes were scheduled to land and take off, in protest against Air Canada's decision to sub-contract to the airline. However, by late Thursday night the Ontario-based airline had obtained a 14-day injunction preventing the Cape Breton airport from closing the two runways.
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| Canadian pilot, 5 Australian and British tourists killed in Zambia plane crash |
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A light airplane crashed on the outskirts of the southern Zambia resort city of Livingstone, killing the Canadian pilot and five tourists from Australia and Britain, aviation authorities said Friday. The plane chartered from the local Airwave Link company was ferrying the tourists from Livingstone, where they had visited Victoria falls, to Mfuwe, a game lodge about 500 kilometres east of the capital, Lusaka, said Chitalu Kabalika, director of civil aviation.
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| FLash | Hungary makes another effort to sell its troubled Malev airline
The Hungarian government announced that it would again try to sell heavily indebted Malev Airlines, which lost almost $19 million US in the first half of the year. The sale will take place in a one-round open tender and bids for the national carrier can be made until Oct. 20, the state privatization agency said. Since its return to democracy in 1990, Hungary has made a number of unsuccessful attempts to sell Malev. In 1997, Hungary bought back a 35 per cent share in the airline that it had sold to Alitalia and another Italian investor after the European Union forced the Italian carrier to sell its foreign interests. |
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| FLash | Hurricanes and fuel costs lead JetBlue Airways Corp. to lower outlook
JetBlue Airways Corp. lowered its third-quarter earnings estimates despite a sharp jump in August traffic, citing the impact of two hurricanes in Florida and higher-than-expected fuel prices. The Kew Gardens, N.Y.-based discount airline said August traffic surged to 1.53 billion revenue passenger miles from 1.17 billion a year ago. A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown one mile. |
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| FLash | Travel company Transat A.T. swings to $12.8M profit, but shares drop
Rebounding from the tourism industry's sharp downturn since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and last year's SARS impact, travel company Transat A.T. Inc. is reporting a third-quarter profit of $12.8 million. That's in stark contrast from a year-ago loss of $10.1 million as revenue jumped 12.4 per cent. For the quarter ended July 31, earnings amounted to 31 cents a share, compared with a loss of 33 cents per share a year earlier, the Montreal-based firm (TSX:TRZ) reported Thursday. Revenue rose to $499.1 million from $444.1 million. But the company fell short of analyst expectations as, excluding one-time items, the company earned 21 cents a share, compared with the average forecast of 22 cents, according to Thomson One Analytics. |
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