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| FLash | Foreign exchange firm Custom House links with Thomas Cook travel group
Foreign exchange company Custom House is teaming up with travel services firm Thomas Cook in a national partnership. The companies said Tuesday that Thomas Cook will start offering its customers Custom House's currency services at Cook's 223 locations in Canada. The firms will both offer Thomas Cook/Custom House traveller's cheques. |
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| Air Canada to Start Daily Non-Stop Service to Rome |
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Air Canada today announced that it will launch daily non-stop service to Rome. With the reintroduction of service to Rome on April 4, 2005 from Toronto, Air Canada  will offer the only daily non-stop flights year-round between Canada and the Italian capital. Flights are timed for convenient connections to and from cities throughout Air Canada's extensive North American network. Seats are now available for purchase.
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| Winds and waves lash Cuba as devastating Ivan churns through the Caribbean |
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Packing ferocious winds and whipping up monstrous waves, hurricane Ivan's eye brushed Cuba's sparsely populated western tip as a treacherous Category 5 storm – the most powerful – and barrelled north toward the U.S. Gulf Coast. Ivan, one of the strongest storms on record, hammered Grand Cayman with wind gusts of up to 320 kilometres per hour before reaching Cuba. The storm has killed at least 68 people across the Caribbean and threatens millions more in the United States. The wall of Ivan's eye clipped the tip of Cuba at about 6:45 p.m. as it moved through the Yucatan Channel on its way to the Gulf of Mexico, the island's top meteorologist reported.
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| Jamaica's tourism industry looks to the future as eye of hurricane Ivan skirts the island – Majority of tourist areas suffer little damage |
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With the passing of Hurricane Ivan, initial reports indicate that the majority of Jamaica's tourist regions and airports suffered little serious damage, the Jamaica Tourist Board announced it today. Efforts are now underway to assess the overall damage and get life back to normal. Visitors from the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom as well as other countries took shelter in hotels throughout Jamaica. Initial reports indicate that these visitors remain unharmed and their safety continues to be a priority.
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| VIA Rail Canada Expands Online Travel Booking Options with Expedia.ca Private Label Partnership |
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 Expedia Canada Corp. recently announced a strategic deal with VIA Rail to provide hotel and car rental booking capabilities to viarail.com . As Canada's national passenger rail service serving more than 450 communities, VIA Rail is now able to offer customers one central location for hotel and car rental shopping alongside rail booking, route information, and vacation guides.
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| Fuel surcharge on Air Transat and WestJet flights |
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| Air Transat recently announced that a surcharge will be applicable for many of its flights. As of September 13, 2004, bookings made on all Air Transat flights, departing November 1st, 2004 through to March 31, 2005, for France and United Kingdom, will have a 40$ fuel surcharge (roundtrip, 20$ per sector). Also, as of September 16, 2004, bookings made on all Air Transat and WestJet flights, departing November 1st, 2004 through to May 16, 2005, for ITC Sun Destinations and Florida, will have a 50$ fuel surcharge (roundtrip, 50$ per sector). Fuel surcharge is net and subject to GST where applicable for any ITC Sun Destination or USA when first enplanement is in Canada. Valid for all departures from Ottawa and the province of Quebec. |
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| FLash | N.S. airport forced to let small planes in; battle with Air Canada still on
Air Canada won a round against a Cape Breton airport fighting its decision to fly smaller planes to the facility, but there's more turbulence ahead. The conflict started in Nova Scotia earlier this week when the Sydney Airport Authority threatened to block the landing of Beech aircraft operated by Georgian Air, one of Air Canada's feeder airlines. The airport said it would shut down its two air strips for maintenance when the Halifax-to-Sydney flights were scheduled to land – a thinly-veiled protest against Air Canada's replacement this week of its Jazz's larger Dash-8s with the smaller, 19-seat Beech airplanes. |
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| FLash | Steep banking on N.S. railway track caused derailment that sparked evacuation
A railway track that was banked too steeply caused a spectacular derailment in northern Nova Scotia that prompted school closures and the evacuation of nearby homes, the Transportation Safety Board says. |
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| FLash | Court says U.S. government must make argument public in airline ID case
The federal government must argue its case in public against a privacy advocate who challenged a rule that requires people to show ID before boarding an airplane, an appeals court has ruled. The Justice Department has argued that national security requires directives dealing with transportation be kept secret, and it has refused to even confirm or deny the existence of such a rule. |
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