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| FLash | CanJet's Seat Sale fares light up the skies
CanJet today launched its system-wide "Light Up The Skies Winter Seat Sale" with outstanding one-way fares on every route. The airline's Director of Marketing & Sales Delivery, Doug Newson, said: "Our Light Up The Skies Winter Seat Sale offers huge savings off CanJet's already low fares and we are confident these great prices will encourage consumers to get off the couch and into the air." He noted that CanJet's Light Up The Skies Winter Seat Sale fares are available for purchase up to and including Nov. 30 and are valid for travel up to and including Jan. 31. |
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| A Feature interview with Fred Lazar, Professor at the Shulich School of Business in Toronto |
| Raymon J. Kaduck |
The air policy discourse opened up by Minister Lapierre will test the ability of stakeholders with wide differences in opinions to argue their cases. Fred Lazar, a Professor at the Shulich School of Business in Toronto, is known for his strong views on the benefits of liberalization in the air transport industry. At the Air Transport Association of Canada’s Annual General Meeting in Vancouver, Professor Lazar said the top three priorities for air policy reform relate to reducing airport rents, liberalizing restrictive international air agreements and easing foreign ownership restrictions.
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| Two women charged after fist fight on Air Transat flight from Colombia |
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Two women face criminal charges after a dispute over a reclining seat erupted into a fist fight on an Air Transat flight from Colombia. A 19-year-old woman squared off with a 25-year-old female on the flight from the Colombian island of San Andres, Montreal police spokesman Robert Mansueto said on Tuesday.
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| "Above and Beyond" supplier award for RBC Insurance |
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 RBC Insurance was recently awarded the "Above and Beyond" supplier award at the 2004 Ensemble Travel Conference which was held in Vancouver. RBC Insurance is focused on going "above and beyond" in all areas of its partnership with Ensemble Travel, including customer service, sales support, operations, IT and product innovation.
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| 'Doofus' U.S. air travellers carry chainsaws, landmines in luggage |
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Many air travellers in the United States apparently still haven't understood the word about leaving their handguns and knives behind when they go to the airport – not to mention chainsaws, landmines and gunpowder, too. More than three years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, air travellers still are trying to carry thousands of potentially deadly items on planes every month.
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| Southwestern Ontario town upset at being excluded from tourism initiative |
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This small town on the northern shore of Lake Erie is looking for some respect after provincial bureaucrats declared it's not memorable enough. In the province's ranking of Ontario's Memorable Communities, Port Dover received 44 points – putting it below the threshold to be included in an Ontario tourism marketing initiative.
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| Outlook for Travel Positive for Georgia in 2005 |
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Nationwide, 2004 has been a year of recovery and growth for the travel and tourism industry and Georgia has benefited from this trend recording growth in all travel regions. According to forecasts released in October 2004 by the Travel Industry Association of America (TIA), during a Marketing Outlook Forum in Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona, tourism is on the rise throughout the country.
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| FLash | Air France reports 41 per cent profit increase, helped by KLM merger
Air France-KLM SA said Wednesday its net profit rose 41 per cent in the second quarter as cost controls imposed after the merger of the French and Dutch flag carriers helped offset a steep rise in fuel prices. The world's largest airline by revenue predicted that high fuel prices in the second half will slow down improvement of the group's financial performance, but it still expects to report a higher operating profit in the year to March 30 than a year earlier. Air France-KLM said net profit was 201 million euros ($263 million US) in the second quarter, up from a pro-forma figure of 143 million euros a year earlier. The pro-forma figure is what the airline would have reported if Air France and KLM had already been merged last year. Air France-KLM said operating profit before aircraft disposals was 295 million euros ($386 million) in the second quarter, on already reported revenue of 5.13 billion euros ($6.71 billion). That was up from a pro forma operating profit of 219 million euros on revenue of 4.82 billion euros a year earlier. The Air France-KLM hook-up last year was the largest-ever cross-border airline merger. |
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| FLash | United Airlines proposes ways pilots' union can cut another US$191.1 million
United Airlines has given its pilots' union a series of suggestions for making more than $191 million US in wage and benefit cuts the carrier says it needs to pull out of bankruptcy – from a straight 18 per cent pay cut to smaller cuts and changes in work rules. The proposal is contained in an analysis by the Air Line Pilots Association negotiating committee that The Associated Press obtained Wednesday. United made the suggestions last week. Pilots' spokesman Dave Kelly called the proposal ``an opener'' in negotiations with United, which this month said it needed an additional $725 million from its unions on top of the $2.5 billion United employees have already made in annual labour concessions. ``Nothing is set. There's nothing definite,'' said Kelly, who would not comment on details of United's suggestions or the ALPA committee's analysis of the proposal. United spokeswoman Jean Medina agreed the proposal is just a start. ``We're very open to sitting down and discussing what options the unions might like to put forth to meet those same savings,'' Medina said. According to the union negotiating committee's analysis, United is also proposing that it be allowed to cut pilots' wages another four per cent if necessary for a period of six months after the airline emerges from bankruptcy. |
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