Archive for the 'General Flight INFO' Category

Why I don’t sell tickets to Air France

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

As I said before Air France consistently has the lowest fares to Europe from the US($200-500 less than competitors). That would be good enough reason to use them..but… They have a stipulation that I must sell a certain amount of land packages(car rental, hotel etc…) in order to sell the discounted tickets. Since I don’t […]

Why are Air France Fares so low?

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

For the last 8 months I’ve been looking at the Air France fares to Greece and other parts of Europe from the US and been amazed at how low the fares were. I thought there was something fishy going on because they were consistently $200-500 lower than the other airlines. And then I read this […]

Successor in works if Olympic Air shuts down

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

ATHENS (Reuters) – Olympic Airways will be succeeded by a new company that will take over its flights if Greece’s troubled carrier is forced to shut down by its debts, Finance Minister George Alogoskoufis told Reuters on Thursday. The European Union has ordered Greece to recover hundreds of millions of euros in illegal state aid […]

Paid more than the current fare?

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

Have you ever bought a ticket and then gone back a few months later and saw that the price was less than what you paid? That can put a damper on your day! I know it’s happened to a lot of people and most people just shrug their head, bang it against the wall and […]

From a Reader…

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

Hi- A couple months ago, I had you look up some fares for me from Dallas, Texas to Athens. You came up with the same $1300/ticket that I was getting. We ended up paying $1650 per ticket. I read somewhere that Delta is one of the only airlines to offer direct flights from the US […]

Charter Flights to Greece

Wednesday, April 12th, 2006

Every Year since I can remember(at least 30), there have been charter flights from NY to Athens. These were usually low cost, a little unorganized, inconvenient in some ways and generally the best thing you could say about them was that they were cheap. While fares are expensive this year, the last hope of low […]

Is My Delta ticket protected?

Sunday, April 2nd, 2006

Hi, I purchased a delta ticket, via orbitz? Is that protected? It was, of course, paid by a credit card? Any other protection tips. Trip is in September. I hadn’t investigated enought before buying ticket and now I hope it it’ll be okay. THanks. Nancy Hello Nancy, I’m not sure how much you can protect […]