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...experience so far "pretty painless." By comparison, Glasgow-bound Adrian Eve, 27, a marketing executive for aerospace firm BAE Systems, is a veteran of the low-cost skies. He's on the road at least twice a month and estimates that 10% of his travel is on discounters. His round-trip fare cost $47 on Ryanair, and would have cost at least four times as much on British Airways, British Midland or Lufthansa. But he's found out that reduced flexibility is part of the price business travelers pay to get a cheap fair on the discounters. "When your ticket...
Vacationing Japanese often take advantage of cheaper prices on items other than Gucci scarves and Louis Vuitton bags. Dentists and doctors in Taiwan and Thailand are increasingly on the tourist trail from Tokyo: a round-trip ticket to Taipei and a visit to a dentist - many of them U.S.-trained - cost less than a lunchtime appointment with a tooth doc at home. Japanese travelers are also increasingly making a beeline for luxury services at bargain prices, like foot massages in Taiwan and herbal steam spas in South Korea...
...troubling, competition-wise, for a cabal of the Big Five airlines to be cooperatively selling their own version of "competitive fares." It's because Expedia and Travelocity are members of capitalism's longest-standing endangered species: the middleman. They currently charge the airlines a $15 fee for every round-trip ticket, a cost the airlines say - and you can probably believe them - is ultimately passed on to the consumer...
...StudentUniverse.com are raffling five round-trip tickets to Europe through the website. The site, which will have daily travel logs and video clips, also offers a detailed itinerary for the trip...
...ALWAYS HAVE PARIS On Jan. 31, United Airlines posted on its website a surprisingly reasonable fare for a round-trip flight to Paris: $25. The airline pulled the offer--the result of a programming glitch--after 55 minutes, but not before 143 keen-eyed Web surfers saw fit to take United up on it. After initially refusing to honor the bargain rate, United gave in last week and announced that it would issue the tickets. Bon voyage...