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Travel Europe News Archive12-May-2006
Trekking Mont Blanc, Europe's ultimate summer adventure (USA Today)SmarterTravel.com: For hikers, the 105-mile Tour du Mont Blanc is the ultimate summer adventure: a 10-day circular walk that starts and finishes in France and passes through both Italy and Switzerland along the way. Josh Roberts reports from the most popular long-distance hike in Europe.
Thunderstorms Could Delay Air Travel (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)WASHINGTON (AP) - An already busy thunderstorm season could mean trouble ahead for summer air Travel when combined with increasingly crowded planes, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday. Marion Blakey said airline delays in April were 30 percent higher than a year earlier, mostly because of thunderstorms that stretched 50,000 feet to 60,000 feet high. "That doesn't bode
Ethics Offers Congress Travel Guidance (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)WASHINGTON (AP) - The House ethics committee Thursday offered to provide advance approval of lawmakers' special interest trips, a move to curb travel abuses that have ensnared two prominent Republicans in federal investigations. The program is voluntary now, but a version could be permanent under a bill that next will go to House and Senate negotiators. For lawmakers to have their trips blessed
Cheap flights make European travel faster (Sun-Sentinel)Planes, trains (but not automobiles): While young travelers have long relied on trains to travel affordably throughout Europe, now those on even a shoestring budget can afford to fly.
TUI narrows loss with sale of TQ3 Travel Solutions (International Herald Tribune)TUI, the largest Travel company in Europe and the owner of the Hapag-Lloyd shipping line, said Tuesday that its first- quarter loss narrowed because of a gain from the sale of TQ3 Travel Solutions, its business-Travel unit.
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