Airline tickets to raise cash for UN health effort
September 23, 2009 ·
Travelers will soon have the chance to donate $2 or more to help fight AIDS in developing countries when they buy an airline ticket. The money will go to the Millennium Foundation. The Geneva-based group is working with the United Nations to fund health goals, including fighting AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. The three major ticket [...]
Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Orlando
August 31, 2009 ·
Horror movie fans — and anyone else who likes the idea of being scared silly — will want to check out Universal theme park’s Halloween Horror Nights this fall, as a “Ripped from the Silver Screen” theme brings The Wolfman, Jigsaw and Chucky to life. Event dates are Sept. 25-26, and Oct. 1-4, 8-11, 15-18, [...]
Southwest Airlines rolls out fare sale
August 18, 2009 ·
Southwest Airlines Co. announced a fare sale to fill seats during the slow fall and winter seasons, but it blacked out many days around the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. Southwest said some seats on a few routes would sell for as little as $59 each way. The fares apply to fights from Sept. 9 through [...]
IATA: Premium air travel down 23.6 percent in May
July 16, 2009 ·
Global airline passenger travel dropped faster in May than in the previous months, a trade group reported on Thursday, suggesting that things are not getting better for air carriers. The number of passengers flying on premium tickets fell 23.6 percent in May compared with May 2008, according to the International Air Transport Association. That follows [...]
Airbags for airliners: What will they cost you?
July 15, 2009 ·
You may never need them at 35,000 feet, but you’ll be glad they’re around if you do. Defibrillators, medical kits and life vests are a few examples of the safety equipment the government requires airlines to put on passenger jets. Of course, each item comes with a cost — from hundreds to thousands of dollars [...]
Masses yearn to huddle in Liberty’s reopened crown
July 2, 2009 ·
It’s crowded. It’s hot. You have to climb hundreds of steps to get there. And throngs of people can’t wait to visit. Unfortunately, many will have to. Tickets sold out fast for the July Fourth reopening of the Statue of Liberty’s crown, closed since shortly after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Aaron Weisinger, [...]
United Airlines passing credit card fees to some agents
June 30, 2009 ·
United Airlines has caused an uproar among travel agents with plans to force them to the pay credit-card fees when their customers buy tickets with plastic. The agents say it’s an unfair move by United to shift a cost of its business on to their backs. They add that if other airlines copy United’s move, [...]
