- SITE Sights Set Globally
Incentive travel programs can be a corporation's farthest-reaching meetings, geographically speaking, and the industry's largest association during the past decade has broadened the international makeup of its membership and its educational offerings to reflect that globalization, according to the association's incoming president.
- EDS gets approval from U.S. General Services
Administration to begin accepting task orders for eTravel Services:
Fedtraveler.com provides government agencies a proven solution for their
travel needs.
EDS has announced that its federal government eTravel Service, FedTraveler.com, has received Full Operational Capability from the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA). The GSA decision allows EDS to begin immediately signing task orders to provide travel services to federal government agencies. EDS was one of three companies selected by the ......
- Travel Service to launch Smart Wings budget
airline.
AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Charter airline Travel Service is to launch a new low-cost carrier in May, offering flights between Prague and Paris, Zurich, Madrid, Amsterdam and Copenhagen. The carrier, named Smart Wings, will reportedly be the Czech Republic's first budget airline. It will operate with a fleet ......
- Chinese airline sued by travel agency over flight
cancellation.
AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD China Southern Airlines is being sued by China International Travel Service (CITS) Fujian, which claims that the carrier changed a flight without notification, causing a delay to a scheduled group tour to Thailand. CITS Fujian says the delay caused it economic losses and that ......
- European airlines team to move into online travel
market.
AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A new online travel service, selling flights and other travel products direct to the consumer, is to be launched later this year by nine European airlines - Aer Lingus, Air France, Alitalia, Austrian Airlines, British Airways, Finnair, Iberia, KLM and Lufthansa. Operating as an ......
- INDUSTRY BRIEFS.
AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Two runways were closed at the airport in Memphis, Tennessee on Thursday (18 December) after a FedEx cargo aircraft caught fire as it landed. The MD-10 aircraft was arriving from Oakland, Calif., when it apparently veered off the runway. It was not immediately clear ......
- Travel Service orders Boeing aircraft.
AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Boeing (NYSE: BA) has confirmed that Travel Service, a Czech airline company, has placed an order for two Next-Generation 737-900ERs with advanced-technology Blended Winglets. Boeing also said that the airline holds purchase rights for an additional two aircraft of the same model. According to ......