Olympic Airways and other major european carriers are being accused of running their operations with illegal government subsidies. Fri, 10 Aug 2007 Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair has made a formal complaint to the European Commission accusing it of failing to act on what Ryanair claims is illegal state aid to rival airlines, an EU spokesperson […]
Lufthansa in talks to buy Iberia Europe’s airlines are starting to consolidate. Lufthansa has started discussions on a possible move to buy ‘all or part’ of Spanish airline Iberia, French daily La Tribune reports. But Iberia has denied the report according to Dow Jones. We think La Tribune got it right. Yesterday, ATW reported Lufthansa […]
Great News! Air France sent me an email to let all my readers know that they are offering an early bird special for trave in the fall and winter that must be purchased by July 28. Unfortunately, Air France won’t allow me to sell tickets for them unless I also sell a package which includes […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]