Travel News: United Airlines Non Stop Flights Btween Washington Dulles And Dubai
United Airlines will launch non-stop flights October 26 between Washington Dulles and Dubai, and it has come out with introductory sale fares from several cities, starting at $1,068 roundtrip economy from New York. Roundtrip fares from other cities include $1,086 from Boston, $1,148 from Chicago, $1,104 from Washington D.C., and $1,220 from San Francisco. Government taxes are extra. Fares must be purchased by September 15 for outbound travel from October 26-December 11 or December 25-31.
Airline News: Airliner Removes Life Vests From Flights
Once again Airlines are cutting down to save fuel. MSNBC reports that Jazz a regional airline of Air Canada has announced in order to save fuel from the weight it is going to remove life vests from its flights. Jazz passengers will be able to use their seat cushions as floating devices in case of an emergency. Jazz does not fly over the ocean, all flights are transcontinental and fly 50 miles from shore on all of their 880 daily flights to 85 destinations.
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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American 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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Save With These Low, Last Minute Domestic Getaway Fares!
These Labor Day Weekend Getaway Fares offer Economy Class discounted fares valid for travel this weekend, and are available on AA.com.
Fares must be ticketed no later than 11:59 p.m. (CT), Friday, August 31, 2007.
Depart 7:00 p.m. or later Friday, August 31, 2007, or anytime Saturday, September 1, 2007. Return anytime the following Monday or Tuesday. Friday evening travel may not be available in all markets.
United Flights Grounded
This must have been chaotic at the airport yesterday. I am glad I wasn’t the one waiting and I feel bad for the people that were there.
A United Airlines computer malfunction halted all departures system wide for two hours Wednesday, the carrier said.
The cause of the outage wasn’t immediately clear.
It lasted from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., when departures were able to resume, said United spokeswoman Robin Urbanski.
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Four days in a row Northwest Airlines canceled more than 10% of its flights because of a pilot shortage, there are concerns that this could be repeated in late July and late August.
“Joe Brancatelli, who runs the business travel advice website JoeSentMe.com and is a freelance USATODAY.com columnist, is advising readers not to book flights on Northwest in the latter half of July or August, heavy summer travel months when Northwest crews can again be expected to run up against monthly limits on their work hours.” Read more on USATODAY.
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