Monday, May 17, 2010
Southwest is the best airline in the U.S. for the availability of standard frequent-flier award tickets, a study by consulting firm IdeaWorks revealed.
The study showed that Southwest Airlines could fulfill 99.3% of requests for award seats requiring standard mileage levels. The worst results among the U.S. airlines were from US Airways — matching IdeaWorks’ requests 10.7% [...]
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Monday, May 17, 2010
American Airlines has completed a year-long refurbishment programme of its Admirals Club and Flagship lounges at Heathrow"s T3
http://www.businesstraveller.com/news/aa-completes...
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Monday, May 17, 2010
Company Provides Travelers with Easy Online Ticket Management Tool, Saving Companies Money and Time
SOUTHLAKE, Texas (May 14, 2010) – A business travel industry survey reports that as many as 50 percent of all tickets are exchanged, refunded or canceled. Travelocity Business® offers two easy-to-use tools, Unused Ticket Tracking and Enhanced ...
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Sunday, May 16, 2010
Seattle, Portland top the list for first quarter
The general impression of the Pacific Northwest is a place with lots of rain, clouds and fog, especially in winter – the kind of weather that’s not friendly to on-time airport operations. But according to federal statistics, that was not the case in the first quarter of 2010. The Bureau of Transportation Statistics reported that the major airport with the best rate of on-time arrivals and departures during January-March of this year was
Seattle – and ranking in second place was Portland, Ore.
Seattle’s on-time arrival rate was just over 87 percent, while Portland’s was 86.2; for on-time departures,
Seattle grabbed the number one spot with a rate of 89.5 percent, followed by Portland’s 89.2 percent. Ranking 29th out of 29 major airports for on-time departures was Newark, at 70.1 percent. Newark was also dead last in on-time arrivals during the first quarter, at 65.9 percent.
The U.S. airline industry as a whole achieved a 77.8 percent on-time arrivals rate for the first quarter of 2010, vs. a 79.2 percent rate for the same three months a year ago. Although the industry improved its performance with checked luggage – the number of mishandled bags averaged 4.1 per 10,000 passengers, a 6 percent drop from last year’s first quarter – it fared much worse with passenger bumpings. The number of “involuntary denied boardings” in the first quarter was 1.73 per 10,000 passengers, up 28 percent year-over-year. Of the 18 airlines tracked, Atlantic Southeast had the worst first quarter record for mishandled baggage, at 9.13 per 10,000 passengers, while
AirTran had the best at 1.73. The worst record for passenger bumpings was at
American Eagle (4.59 per 10,000 passengers), and the best was at
JetBlue (0.01 per 10,000). For the 12-month period ended in March 2010, the three airlines with the best on-time arrival records were (in order) Hawaiian,
Alaska and
Southwest. Comair had the worst on-time record, ranking just below Atlantic Southeast and
AirTran.
http://www.executivetravelmagazine.com/page/Best+o...
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Thursday, May 13, 2010
Customers can now view whether their long-haul flights from Heathrow will being operating during next week"s strike by BA cabin crew. Information on short-haul services from the airport will be available from tomorrow
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Rental firm adds two-seaters to fleet
Driving and parking in congested cities may get a bit easier in a little Daimler Smart Car, now available for rent through Budget Rent A Car’s Street Fleet series of vehicles, which can be reserved by specific make and model (
budget.com). The ‘Smart fortwo’ measures 8.8 feet long, 5.1 feet tall and 5.1 feet wide. Aside from hybrids, it is the most fuel-efficient vehicle in Budget’s fleet, rated at 33 miles a gallon in the city and 41 on the highway. The Smart fortwo is available at select Budget neighborhood locations, including Baltimore,
Boston,
Chicago,
Miami, Key West, New York,
Philadelphia and San Francisco.
http://www.executivetravelmagazine.com/page/Smart+...
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Monday, May 10, 2010
MAY 10, 2010 -- Since coming to health benefits provider WellPoint at the beginning of 2009 as manager of strategic sourcing for travel, Cindy Heston embarked on a string of initiatives that included changing the company's travel management company configuration, implementing new technology and bringing the meetings program under the ...
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Wednesday, May 5, 2010
US Airways has reduced the cost of award ticket changes and redeposits for international itineraries from $250 to $150. This is very good news. There are so many promotions to get US Airways miles for cheap, but the one major point of frustration with them (for me at least) has been the ridiculous...
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