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Get Ready For The XCOR Aerospace Suborbital Vehicle
For those pressed for time and want to go far here is something exciting to look forward to. A small California aerospace company today unveiled a new suborbital spaceship that will provide affordable front-seat rides to the edge of space for those who can afford it.
The company, XCOR Aerospace, of Mojave, CA, announced that its two-seat Lynx suborbital spaceship will carry people or payloads to where they will experience weightlessness and see the stars above and the Earth and its atmosphere below. This will launch XCOR into the emerging space tourism market, estimated at over a half-billion dollars estimated flight time only 30 minutes.
Airlines Raise Fuel Fees On Europe Flights
Starting today, if you are taking a trip to Europe be advised that American Airline and Northwest Airlines raised fuel surcharges by $20 round trip. Flights from the US to London will now be $242, this is on top of high fares because of high fuel prices.
Americans traveling to Europe this summer will face not only the high cost of the euro there will be additional costs such as higher air fares and higher fuel charges making travel to Europe this summer three times higher then what they are now.
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Airbus A280 Lands At London’s Heathrow Airport
Singapore Airline Airbus A380 Flight SQ308 has landed in London’s Heathrow airport completing its first European flight. The Singapore Airline arrived in London 15 minutes before its scheduled arrival time.
Each of the 470 Singapore Airlines passengers will be given a personalized certificate to honor the historic flight to the UK. Singapore Airlines has has three A380s in service which have been flying from Singapore to Sydney, Australia and they have 16 more in order. Read more
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Beginning this September Emirates will become the first airline to serve Los Angeles (LAX) non-stop from the Middle Eastern or Gulf region when it launches daily flights.
Flight EK215 will be non-stop Dubai-Los Angeles 15 hours 55 mins and Los Angeles-Dubai 16 hr 35 min making it the longest flight in the Emirates Network flying over Japan and the Pacific rather than northern Europe and the Pole. This is great news for the west coast making travel much faster to and from the Gulf, Middle East and Indian subcontinent.
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United Airlines is now offering their first-class international customers choice of dining options. Dessert first before dinner, whatever the preference passengers on United can now choose what to eat and when they want to be served.
“Months of research with our frequent international customers clearly indicated that offering a flexible and customized first class dining option is key to a best-in-class premium customer experience,” says Alex Marren, United Airlines vice president — On board Service. “With our new dining option, our flight attendants can create an individualized experience and recognize what our first class customers value most when dining … even if it is having an ice cream sundae before dinner.”
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Book a flight + hotel package now for exclusive low fares! Enjoy the spirit of Aloha as you??™re spoiled with the cabin comfort, food, and in-flight service that made Hawaiian the #1 airline serving Hawaii in Travel + Leisure??™s 2007 World??™s Best Awards. Book by March 31, 2008 Depart January 1??“March 31, 2008Hawaiian Airlines is proud to team up with Expedia, the Official Travel Sponsor of the NFL, to bring you to the 2008 NFL Pro Bowl in Honolulu, from February 7??“11, 2008.
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As an added bonus, when you book your flight on united.com between January 1 and January 10, 2008 you’ll receive a special promotion from Hertz!
Purchase by January 10, 2008Domestic travel: Valid on Tue/Wed/Sat, with all travel complete by March 6, 2008International travel: Atlantic/Pacific travel is valid between January 7 and March 13, 2008; Latin travel is valid between January 7 and March 14, 2008Minimum/maximum Read more
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Holiday travel this time of the year can be very stressful, with long lines at airports, flight cancellations due to snow storms. All we really want is to arrive at our destination and start our holiday without any dramatic events and flared nerves.
Erik Torkells from, Budget Travel has suggestions of ways to survive your holiday travel.
Path of least resistance After years of learning the hard way that the days on either side of Christmas are like something out of Halloween, I now fly home on December 25. Airports and planes are much less crowded.
Tags: How, Survive, Holiday, Flight No commentsYELLOWPAGES.travel: Launches Hotel And Rental Car Search
YELLOWPAGES.travel;a tool a tool that enables users to search the top 12 travel websites with one click has now launched hotels and rentals as well as flights.
YellowPages Corporation; operator of popular online YellowPages sites and telephone books including travel website aggregator YELLOWPAGES.travel, today announced it has launched hotel and rental car search as part of its search tool. The company now enables users to search the top 12 travel websites, including Hotels.com, with one click.
Tags: YELLOWPAGES, travel, Launches, Hotel, And, Rental, Car, Search No commentsAmerican Airlines: Testing new food on flights
Gone are the days where one would fly on a domestic airline and would be served a meal or a snack. These days airlines are charging for meals, American Airlines has been selling food in coach since 2005.
American Airlines announced yesterday, in the next two months they are going to be testing light meals on flights like snacks and beverages. On selected routes each item will be tested for a week from sandwiches at $5, snack and beverages $3 and fresh antipasto platter and $10 for fruit and cheese plate.
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