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Travel Europe News Archive10-Apr-2006
Air Force opens car service school at Spangdahlem (Stars and Stripes)SPANGDAHLEM AIR BASE, Germany ? The Air Force has opened a school at Spangdahlem that will offer advanced vehicle maintenance training to airmen in Europe, saving the service $450,000 annually in Travel costs.
James Salter shares his travel experiences in a lovely collection of pieces (The Wichita Eagle)"There & Then: The Travel Writing of James Salter" by James Salter (Shoemaker and Hoard, $15, paperback) James Salter is America's most accomplished stylist, a writer of incomparably beautiful prose. His novels include "Solo Faces," "A Sport and a Pastime" and the immortal classic of quiet domesticity, "Light Years." His short fiction, collected in works like "Dusk" and "Last Night" (published
Ride Europe?s rails with choice of passes (Kansas City Star)Heading to Europe this summer? If so, you may be considering some form of railpass. This year you?ll find more options than ever ? and a profusion of prices.
Compass Group to sell concession unit for $3.1B (Market Watch)SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Compass Group PLC said Sunday that it will sell its travel concession catering business for 1.8 billion British pounds ($3.1 billion) in cash to a consortium of investors led by Macquarie Bank and private-equity group EQT.
Travel Notes (San Jose Mercury News)Philadelphia, Chicago and Washington, D.C., are among the cities kicking off the spring and summer travel season with ethnic neighborhood tours.
Compass Shares May Rise After Unit Sale Exceeds Expectations (Bloomberg.com)April 10 (Bloomberg) -- Shares of Compass Group Plc, the world's largest caterer, may rise today in London after the company agreed to sell its Travel-services business for 1.82 billion pounds ($3.2 billion), more than analysts had expected.
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