| Orbitz Worldwide Signs New Distribution Agreement With Avis Budget ...
CHICAGO, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Orbitz Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: OWW) , a leading global online travel company, today announced that it has reached an agreement with Avis Budget Group, Inc. (NYSE: CAR) to distribute Avis Rent A Car (http://www.avis.com) and Budget Rent A Car (http://www.budget.com) inventory through its Orbitz (http://www.orbitz.com) and CheapTickets (http://www.cheaptickets.com) consumer brands and corporate travel offering, Orbitz for Business (http://www.orbitzforbusiness.com). "We're pleased to renew this alliance with two car rental brands that have a strong history with Orbitz Worldwide and its customers," said Sam Fulton, vice president and general manager, transportation, Orbitz Worldwide, Inc. "As Orbitz Worldwide works to offer more environmentally sound alternatives to our customers, we're pleased to immediately make available Avis Budget Group's fleet of gas/electric hybrid vehicles." In April 2007, Orbitz launched http://eco.orbitz.com, a microsite that enables its customers to book more environmentally friendly travel.
Fast rail offering hip personalised travel
E-TICKETS, on-board DVD rentals, events, and even new encounters French rail's new iDTGV trains are testing a new way of travel. Music blares from a speaker in a bustling bar and conversations get louder as customers just out of Paris meetings trickle in, settle down and order drinks. The barman hands over a beer, spilling a little as the brightly-coloured buffet car on the top deck of a customised high-speed TGV train rolls into its three-hour journey to the Mediterranean port city of Marseille. Joined to a regular TGV train, this iDTGV, playing on the French word "idee" or "idea", is operated privately, but owned by the national SNCF rail company and designed as a laboratory for future rail travel. Planned party train on the way The iDTGV was launched in December 2004 and offers cheaper tickets, internet reservations, and services aimed at pleasing passengers, including a soon-to-be launched party train, to help the SNCF better compete with low cost airlines.
LIVE from the CNN Rental Car Center!
I've been told that CNN has the best political team on television. (That honor used to go to the Clintons.) So tonight I'm watching CNN. Wolf Blitzer is working the big board, crunching the numbers. Anderson Cooper, meanwhile, is consulting the panel of experts (David Gergen, Jeff Toobin and Gloria Borger, among them) for analysis. The experts sit side-by-side behind laptops, along tables that look more like counters. My snarky friend Jeremy says they look like cashiers at Chipotle. That's a cheap shot. It's obvious that the arrangement is modeled after an airport rental car center. It's a clean look and it's handily hierarchical: The A-team (as in Avis team) includes Gergen, Toobin and Borger. The B-team (as in Budget) tonight includes Paul Begala, Bill Bennett and Carl Bernstein. This is a pretty strong B-team.
YELLOWPAGES.Travel Partners With CheapTickets.com and Donates 15% of ...
(CSRwire) YELLOWPAGES.travel, a tool that enables users to search the top 12 travel websites with one click, has now partnered with CheapTickets.com and donates 15% of net proceeds to multiple charities. Users of CheapTickets.com can now search the site along with 11 other major travel sites with one click and donate to multiple charities such as the American Red Cross and the American Cancer Society amongst others. LOS ANGELES, CA - December 4, 2007 - /PRNewswire/ - Yellow Pages Corporation, operator of popular online YellowPages websites and telephone books including travel website aggregator YELLOWPAGES.travel, today announced it has partnered with CheapTickets.com. YELLOWPAGES.travel will also be donating 15% of the net proceeds received from all airfare, hotel and car rental bookings performed on the site to multiple charities.
Tips For Redeeming And Collecting Flyer Miles
We all like to get something for free but there is an old adage that says “nothing is ever free". A free airplane ticket is the draw of frequent flyer points but since airlines are not in the business of giving away seats for free there are some things you need to be aware of. There are also some tricks to using your accumulated air miles so you can get the most benefit out of them. First off you need to choose a frequent flyer program and stick to that one program. Research the program and choose one that you will use most often. These programs also have partners including other airlines, retail stores, dining and car rental companies. Also research how many miles you receive for your flights and how many miles it takes to redeem a free ticket. Keep in mind that some airlines only give a percentage of the actual miles on discounted tickets so if you're a bargain hunter then pick a program that gives you one hundred percent of the miles on cheap tickets.
Estes posts solid win over Stafford
The local things are meeting transportation needs and the illegal immigration problem." Estes noted concerns with legislative funding and snafus at the Texas Department of Transportation, along with concerns about the Trans-Texas corridor. On immigration, Estes said he heard universal agreement that the borders must be made secure, but feels the federal government must step up and help pay to do it. “It's an international border," he said. “Texas can't do it all." That border may seem a long way away to folks in Wichita Falls, he said, “but it affects every Texan." Estes said he would continue legislation that would attack methamphetamine use, something he said would probably be a “never-ending fight." Estes said he'd felt an outpouring of support throughout the campaign, “voting support and financial support.
Stressed-out teens get lessons in relaxing
As Andre Zayas lay on the hard gym floor, the 14-year-old from Dorchester struggled to clear his mind of his myriad burdens. He ached for a friend who was recently shot to death. He worried about finding a job to help his single mother pay the household bills. And in just a few hours, his project on the 1930s was due in humanities class, and he had not finished. Next to him, Chanel Peguero closed her eyes and imagined graduating from high school in four years with a scholarship, the only way she would be able to afford college. The honor roll student cannot wait to escape her home in a South End housing development where her sleep is punctured by sirens, gunshots, and arguing adults. The teenagers, among two dozen Fenway High School freshmen arrayed in a semicircle beneath a basketball hoop, breathed deeply as a stress-reduction trainer instructed them on how to relax.
Housing affordability plunges to record lows
HOUSING affordability has continued its downward spiral, sinking almost 2 per cent in the final three months of last year to yet another record low, figures show. A report published by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and the Housing Industry Association (HIA), released today, shows housing affordability fell by 1.7 per cent in the final three months of 2007. Housing affordability conditions in the December quarter were 5.2 per cent lower than the same period a year earlier, and the lowest since the report was first published in 1984.The report pointed to higher interest rates and strong growth in established house prices as the chief reasons behind the deterioration in affordability."This latest fall was a result of a 1.4 per cent increase in the median first-home price, and a 0.25 percentage point increase in interest rates in November, both of which offset strong household income growth for the quarter,'' the report said.
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