Archive for January 23rd, 2012

Fitch: European Airline Cuts Reflect Tough Demand, Cost Outlook – MarketWatch (press release)

CHICAGO, Jan 23, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Fitch Ratings expects 2012 to be a year of significant retrenchment for the largest European network airlines, as a poor demand environment and persistent cost pressures threaten to drive operating losses higher. This month’s roll out of a major cost and capacity restructuring plan by Air France-KLM may ...Read More

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Why foreign travel is no more an incentive for techies – Times of India

BANGALORE: For IT engineers, the periodical one- or two-year stints in the US or Europe used to be the primary attraction of their jobs. They not only got to live in places that most Indians aspire to but, during those stints, they also received salaries substantially higher than in India and which allowed them to ...Read More

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What’s Left to Do About Damascus? – New York Times

[unable to retrieve full-text content] msnbc.com What's Left to Do About Damascus?New York TimesIt has also banned Syria from having its own banks operate in EU countries or investing in European banks. This week, EU foreign ministers agreed to place travel and other restrictions on 22 more individuals and eight more companies.Danin: How to help ...Read More

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Travel Postcard: 48 hours in Davos mixing power and powder – Reuters

A general view shows the Swiss mountain resort of Davos January 16, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Arnd Wiegmann By Ben Hirschler DAVOS, Switzerland | Mon Jan 23, 2012 7:53am EST DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – Got 48 hours in Davos this week? Here are some tips on slaloming through the crowds of the rich and powerful at the ...Read More

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Collette Vacations: Travel tours with a heart – Washington Times

CHARLOTTE,  January 23, 2012 — An 11-mile rally near London more than 170 years ago changed the face of travel forever. Cliffs of Moher, Ireland (Photo: Peabod) In July of 1841, when Baptist minister, Thomas Cook, arranged to take 540 temperance campaigners from the Leicester Campbell Street railway station in London to a rally in Loughborough, he launched the ...Read More

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