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Travel Europe News Archive16-Jan-2006
Britain leads way as flight traffic in Europe jumps 8% (thebusinessonline.com)LEADING airlines are enjoying a good start to the year. This month they will operate more than 77,500 flights into and out of Europe, an increase of 8% on January 2005, according to OAG, the Travel and transportation information group headed by Eddie Bell.
Free Stuff (The Charlotte Observer)FREE RAIL DAY IN EUROPE: Buy a Eurail Selectpass and get a free day of rail Travel. The deal applies to six-, eight- or 10-day Selectpasses for Travel over two months in three, four or five adjoining European countries.
Merkel to redefine ties with Moscow (International Herald Tribune)Chancellor Angela Merkel, freshly returned from a first and very cordial official visit to Washington, is scheduled to travel Monday to Moscow, where she will put her mark on Germany's long and complex relationship with Russia.
'No shuffle board on the afterdeck' (Cape Cod Times)By K.C. MYERS The Enterprise, the Massachusetts Maritime Academy's training ship, began its $1.3 million journey to Europe yesterday for nearly two months of intensive travel and maritime education.
Attacks leave travel plans up in air for Benton graduate (Benton Courier)In the wake of Thursday's bombings in London, Amanda Tackett said today that she is going to "evaluate everything" for a few days before deciding whether to join her fiance, Jamie Fugitt, in Europe.
In Brief (San Jose Mercury News)CENTRAL AMERICA Panama, Costa Rica join forces to boost tourism If it's Tuesday, it must be . . . Costa Rica? Americans who travel to Europe for the first time often sample several countries in the same region over the course of a week or two, and now countries like Costa Rica and Panama are encouraging travelers to visit more than one destination on the same trip to Central America.
Experience go-today.com's New Live Air Availability with Select Travel Deals to Europe (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) BOTHELL, Wash.----Jan. 11, 2006--Book an exciting travel deal to Europe using go-today.com's new live air availability tool. With the launch of go-today.com's new website, located at www.go-today.com , you now have the ability to book air online on select packages.
Surcharges, higher fares identified travel in '05 (Centre Daily Times)The Dallas Morning News Let's look back at travel in 2005 and see what's in store for 2006. On the bad-news side in 2005, Delta pulled the majority of its flights out of Dallas, going from more than 250 flights to fewer than 20 flights. Delta now offers daily nonstops only to Atlanta, Cincinnati, Orlando and Salt Lake City.
Travel forecast is sunny as 2005 begins (Denver Post)A hot tub after hiking, or a spa apres ski. And a vacation in Europe - despite the weak dollar, despite the Madrid bombing. Soft adventure and trips abroad are two of the biggest trends in Travel as the tourism industry continues to rebound from its post-9/11 slump.
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