This is just an interesting article about saving money…. Small measures yield big savings in the skies American Airlines goes all out to cut fuel consumption By Tom Costello Correspondent Updated: 7:24 p.m. ET June 22, 2006NBC NewsTULSA, Okla. – With 2,500 flights each day, cutting back on the nearly 3 billion gallons of jet […]
From the Greek Newspaper Kathimerini This probably won’t instill too much confidence…. Messing up with small and big alike John Kenneth Galbraith’s congratulations to John F. Kennedy for the latter’s election victory came with a warning: “The state,” the late economist said, “is the kind of organization which, though it does large things badly, does […]
Sabre Aviation Consulting Services was contracted by the Greek government to find investors and develop a business plan for an airline to replace troubled Olympic Airlines, aiming to start operating this fall. The new carrier will probably be called Pantheon Airways. The government will be a minority shareholder of the new carrier. Pantheon should be […]
I just read in my Budget Travel magazine that Lufthansa has just announced a new program with round trip flights within Europe starting at $132. I looked around on their web site and but didn’t find any mention of it(so maybe you have to complete the quote machine to get the fares- so you might […]
A couple of years I was surprised that Delta cut out it’s commission to it’s agents… sure, it’s nice to cut out those commissions that you pay those pesky little agents…. but when you have thousands of them across the country, that’s a powerful little sales force working for you(and you don’t even have to […]
I’m planning my trip to Greece in the fall and I decided to try to save some money and use my Delta Skymiles. I have 55,000 miles and need 50,000 for a round trip ticket from Raleigh/Durham to Athens. Sounds easy… So I put in the dates and then there is a little note about […]
Air France has come out with a winter sale for 2006-2007 to Paris from it’s US gateway cities with fares as low as $438(plus tax…uh oh!!) and for another $60 you can fly to other European cities which means you can have a free stopover in Paris. Naturally they didn’t include Athens in the list […]