Posts for 'Flights/Cruises/Trains' Category

If you have heard that flight tickets get cheaper on last minute reservation,.....well most of the time it might be true as far as low seasons like February, March, October or May are concerned but in peak season even the Sale offers are no less than 600 bucks....in that case how can you still save some good deal on your flights to Thailand? Make any flights – cheap flights to Thailand by following the simple rules:  If you always travel in national or school Holidays, try booking your cheap tickets to Thailand at the first possibility, the best time is at least 3 months earliest. Remember, the demand goes up as you move closer to the dates.

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Vacations are supposed to be fun, but just sometimes, they can leave you weary. In fact, many vacationers start looking forward to coming back home to the grind. Packing, planning, eating out, sitting in a coach and travelling long distances at times begin to take a toll on you.

Enter cruises, a great way to avoid burnout on a vacation. Once considered the prerogative of the rich, the aged and honeymooners, cruise holidays have now caught the fancy of regular travellers who are planning a vacation. And why not?

With the most competitive prices, the cruise industry has ever known, these exciting sea vacations are now much within everyone's reach. The best part of cruising is, unlike in a hotel, you checkin once and check-out after a week or so after visiting 5-6 cities.

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Dubai: Kuwait- and Dubai-based airline Jazeera Airways celebrated its three-millionth passenger in its third year by launching a massive one million seat sale  with fares starting as low as Dh33. The one million seat sale is running already and will be available to passengers booking online on Thursday until midnight.

The celebration sale is available on almost all routes that the airline flies, and can be used for travel between November 27 and March 31 2009 to destinations including Alexandria, Beirut, Cyprus and newly launched Doha and Khartoum.

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Add Silversea to the list of cruise lines moving ships closer to customers as the economy tumbles and vacationers look for more affordable options.

The ultra-luxury line is canceling a long (and apparently difficult to sell) trans-Atlantic cruise scheduled for the Silver Cloud in 2009 with several shorter, easier-to-reach voyages departing from cities along the East coast of North America.

Silversea spokesman Brad Ball tells USA TODAY the line has been getting a lot of requests from past guests to return to region, which it hasn't visited in three years, but there's no doubt the struggling economy played a roll in the decision.

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AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION via COMTEX)  Air France and Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) have announced the launch of two additional direct flights between France and the US, as part of their joint venture agreement.

The first new service is between Paris-Charles de Gaulle International Airport and Pittsburgh International Airport, Pennsylvania. The second is between Paris-Charles de Gaulle International Airport and Raleigh-Durham International Airport, North Carolina.  Both of the services, which will be launched in June 2009, will be operated daily using Boeing 757-200 aircraft, with 16 seats in BusinessElite and 158 seats in economy class.

After half a century as more of a curiosity than a convenience, passenger trains are getting back on track in some parts of the country.The high cost of energy, coupled with congestion on highways and at airports, is drawing travelers back to trains not only for commuting but also for travel between cities as much as 500 miles apart.

Californians are considering selling billions of dollars worth of bonds to get going on an 800-mile system of bullet trains that could zip along at 200 miles per hour, linking San Francisco and San Diego and the cities in between.

In the Midwest, transportation officials are pushing a plan to connect cities in nine states in a hub-and-spoke system centered in Chicago.The public is way ahead of policymakers in recognizing trains as an attractive alternative to cars and planes, said Rep. James Oberstar, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee."I think we're at a transformational point in intercity passenger rail service," said Oberstar, D-Minn.

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Qantas has ordered 20 of the 560-tonne Airbus A380 aircraft, the largest commercial aircraft in the world.The first Qantas A380 will be in Auckland later this week for a promotional flight over the city before Qantas begins regular scheduled flights between Australia and the United States this year and from Australia to London early next year.

The promotional flight to Auckland on Friday is likely to be the only flight into New Zealand by a Qantas A380 for some time.The airline said today it did not plan a scheduled service from Auckland with the new aircraft.Emirates Airlines begins the first scheduled commercial flight by an A380 aircraft from Auckland in February. Emirates has ordered 58 A380 aircraft.

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Air New Zealand is to fit 3.4m tall winglets to its Boeing 767 aircraft which it estimates will save $7.5 million worth of fuel a year.Making the announcement in Seattle this morning, the airline's chief pilot Dave Morgan, said Air New Zealand had been looking at the equipment for the past four years but current fuel prices make the case compelling.

The winglets are made of carbon fibre, titanium and aluminium and work by minimising the amount of air that spills to the wing tip and increases drag.Winglets are now a standard feature of many aircraft rolling off the production line, but Air New Zealand will be one of the first airlines to retrofit them to 767s which fly mainly to Australia, the Pacific Islands and Hawaii.

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In the world of cruising, Carnival Cruise Lines is known as the “Fun Ships”. So it was no surprise that Carnival’s newest ship, Carnival Splendor, was christened last week in Dover, England amid much lighthearted fun.

The party got started when the godmother, British pop star Myleene Klass, serenaded a Royal Navy diver who climbed a 60-foot rope up the side of the ship to smash the ceremonial bottle against the hull.

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When the fiftysomething couple returned from their hour-long flight to Denali, Anna Gray thought they seemed humbled by what they'd seen.

Gray, 20, works at Talkeetna Air Taxi, which takes visitors on flightseeing tours of the mountains, glaciers and breathtaking terrain surrounding Denali (the former Mount McKinley), which is, at a barely imaginable 20,320 feet, the highest peak in North America.

The couple had been saving up for a long time to see Denali, the wife said, and "felt blessed" by the mountain's beauty and majesty. But when her husband walked away for a moment, the real truth came tumbling out.

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