2010-07-21 12:33
Legendary Boeing aeronautical engineer Joe Sutter, credited with leading the development of the iconic 747 jetliner, won the inaugural Flightglobal Lifetime Achievement Award, Flight International magazine announced at the 2010 Farnborough International Airshow.
“Joe Sutter helped shrink our...
2010-07-21 12:29
Hot on the heels of its record breaking April 2010 performance, Fiji’s international tourist intake has surged again with figures released by the Fiji Bureau of Statistics this week showing the destination set a new record for May hosting more than 45,000 visitors.
The 45,087 figure eclipses...
2010-07-21 12:22
Reports are now showing that British Airways is the latest airline to join the growing technological revolution. This happened as British Airways announced the launch of an application allowing its passengers to check-in via their smart phones.
This new move will allow members of the British...
2010-07-21 11:27
"Israel is a sought-after tourism product," says Oren Drori, senior deputy director general at the Tourism Ministry for Israel. He said there is a wide gap between Israel's political image and its actual image.
In the first half of 2010, a new record was set when 1.6 million tourists visited...
2010-07-21 11:14
Michael Achenbaum plans to open his second luxury hotel in Manhattan on July 26, unveiling a 249-room Gansevoort hotel at the corner of 29th Street and Park Avenue similar to his original Gansevoort operating in the Meatpacking District.
He'll have a lot of company. This year, developers are...
2010-07-21 11:09
Google has found an intelligent way to arrange the results for a search query.
But an interesting question is - where we can find that intelligence? A lot of people have conducted research into the indexing process and even more have tested ranking factors on their weight, but we wondered...
2010-07-21 11:00
Farnborough, United Kingdom (PRNewswire-FirstCall/WorldTourismNews.eu) -- Boeing (NYSE:BA) and Air Austral today announced orders for two Boeing Long Range 777-200LR Worldliners. The order is valued at $501 million at average list prices. The airplanes were previously listed on Boeing's Orders...
2010-07-21 10:57
Philadelphia (PRNewswire/WorldTourismNews.eu) -- In a new round of financing from a group of private investors, Movitas raised $3 million based on the company's success with hotels, resorts, conferences and travel destinations. Movitas will use the investment to deepen the capabilities of its...
2010-07-21 10:54
Seattle (PRNewswire-FirstCall/WorldTourismNews.eu) -- Boeing (NYSE:BA) , the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) and Air China today celebrated the delivery of the 800th Boeing airplane for China - a Boeing Next-Generation 737-800 to Air China.
"Boeing and China have had a...
2010-07-21 10:52
Farnborough, England (PRNewswire-FirstCall/WorldTourismNews.eu) -- FARNBOROUGH AIR SHOW -- Air Arabia has signed an exclusive maintenance agreement with Hamilton Sundstrand Power Systems to provide long-term repair and maintenance support for its APS3200 Auxiliary Power Units (APU) installed...
