14/11/2008 19:00
Delta Air Lines has announced the addition of 15 new routes to the world’s fastest growing economies in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East.
The move offers increased connectivity between domestic hubs beginning January 2009 and improves customers’ access to destinations...
14/11/2008 17:14
Accommodation specialist Octopus Travel plans to take on the online travel agency sector following a multi-million dollar technology overhaul and thousands of new properties.
Managing director Gareth Gaston said octopustravel.com had always been seen as an appendage to GTA but the plan...
14/11/2008 15:38
THY Turkish Airlines' net profit rose 244 percent to TRY668 million lira (USD$415.4 million) in the first nine months of the year, and it said it had positive expectations for the year as a whole.
Sales in the same period jumped 24 percent to TRY4.416 billion as the partly state-owned...
14/11/2008 15:35
EasyJet founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou has raised his stake in the British low-cost airline and wants to appoint two new directors as he pressures the company's board to adopt a more cautious business strategy.
The carrier said on Friday that Stelios had increased his shareholding by around...
14/11/2008 15:27
Irish airports are set to become the first outside the Americas to offer full US immigration checks before departure, potentially boosting their position as transatlantic hubs, the Irish government said on Friday.
Dublin and the busy stopover point of Shannon in the west of Ireland already...
14/11/2008 15:07
The public needs to be clear as to whether it wants the aviation industry to cut down on harmful emissions as a priority over issues such as noise pollution.
Speaking at the World Travel Market's airlines and the impact on the environment seminar, Society of British Aerospace Companies head...
14/11/2008 14:59
Tourism growth will fall in line with the downturn in the economy, but the industry will not require the government's financial help demanded by other sectors.
United Nations World Tourism Organization secretary-general Francesco Frangialli said: "There will be no tourism tsunami and we do...
14/11/2008 13:25
TUI AG, the German owner of Europe's largest travel company, reported a 42 percent drop in third- quarter profit after paying a larger share of income to minority investors and spending money to combine tourism brands.
Net income attributable to TUI stockholders dropped to 256.1 million...
14/11/2008 12:12
Travel companies must engage more with the next generation of web users if they are to grow their sales.
Bournemouth University established chairman in tourism Professor Dimitrios Buhalis said companies are still not fully engaging with the emergence of Web 2.0, which sees internet users...
14/11/2008 10:46
What Good PR Clients Do
Since public relations isn't done "to" a company—it's done "with" the management team or owners—there's an essentially different nature to how this kind of professional service is successfully delivered. It's much more akin to legal or medical services with the "defendants"...
