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Travelocity will be the primary technology provider for and a shareholder in the travel website being developed by 11 airlines in the Asia/Pacific region. The as-yet-unnamed exchange is expected to commence operations by mid year.

Buzz is to expand its services from London Stansted with a twice-daily flight to Cologne from March 25. This is the UK-based budget airline’s fifth new route for 2001, joining Poitiers and La Rochelle in France and Murcia and Gerona in Spain. The KLM subsidiary also announced it is switching from Berlin Tegel Airport to Schonefeld due to slot restraints at Tegel and that it will reduce services on some of its business routes such as Berlin, Paris, Frankfurt and Dusseldorf during July and August.

Emirates has increased its weekly nonstop flights between Dubai and Zurich from three to four.

Continental Airlines plans to increase seat capacity to Hawaii by 31% with addition of five new weekly flights between Houston and Honolulu May 2-Sept. 5. It also plans to add a 282-seat DC-10 to its Newark-Honolulu route.

LanPeru, after nearly two months of being grounded, will resume domestic flights beginning Feb. 1, offering service between Lima and Cuzco, Arequipa, and Juliaca. We expect some good promo fares to stimulate business.

Air Canada will begin codesharing today with Star Alliance partner Lufthansa on daily flights to and from Russia. Lufthansa will carry the Air Canada designator on flights from Frankfurt to Moscow and St. Petersburg.
     Air Canada recently conducted a beta trial of inflight Internet and e-mail services. The test was sponsored by Tenzing Communications.

Impulse Airlines has emerged as a third potential bidder for Australian Regional carrier Hazelton Airlines as antitrust officials consider revised proposals from Qantas and Ansett. Impulse indicated it will proceed with an offer depending on the final outcome of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s examination the two bids currently on the table. The carrier, which entered the inter-city market in June, would like to combine its regional fleet of 13 1900Ds with that of Hazelton in a merged entity, which would be controlled by Impulse but retain the Hazelton brand.
     Impulse recently announced plans to strengthen its east coast jet services with addition of three more 717-200s, increasing its fleet to eight.

Virgin Express has signed a distribution deal with Sabre, making it the second low-fare airline to sign with that CRS. Traditionally Virgin Express has been a direct-sell carrier, but its new distribution strategy has prompted it to re-evaluate the value of CRS distribution to travel agents.

British Midland, as it gears up for launch of transatlantic service this spring, has named Rohan Alce to the new position of VP-Americas based in Chicago. He will be responsible for airport services, sales and marketing. Alce joined BMA in 1999 from Virgin Atlantic.

Gol Airlines, a Brazilian low-fare new entrant, took to the skies Monday, operating a fleet of six 737-700s among seven domestic destinations. Four aircraft are leased from Boeing Capital Corp. and two from GE Capital Aviation Services. Gol will take delivery of four more leased 737s from May through Nov. The name is Portuguese for "goal," a wise choice in soccer-happy Brazil.

Vanguard Airlines will offer a daily nonstop flight from Kansas City to Las Vegas and San Francisco beginning April 1.

LanChile will begin offering service from Santiago to New Orleans, Philadelphia and Baltimore via Miami or New York Jan. 24 under a codeshare agreement with American Airlines. LanChile also will begin offering daily nonstop service between Miami and Ecuador this month.

Transavia will expand its scheduled budget operation Basiq Air with a daily flight from Rotterdam to Nice and Barcelona from April 12. Transavia, an 80% subsidiary of KLM, began operating Basiq Air Dec. 18 with twice-daily flights from Amsterdam Schiphol to Nice and Barcelona and said, "the number of bookings and load factor are promising."

Ryanair is to set up a new hub in continental Europe later this year. An announcement is expected by mid-Feb. According to Sinead Finn, Ryanair’s sales director for Italy, the airline is in talks with two airports on the continent. Although Italy is Ryanair’s biggest European destination--one in seven of its passengers traveled to Italy last year--an Italian airport is not among the short-listed candidates. That leaves Frankfurt, Stockholm and Brussels as the most likely possibilities. Finn said talks will continue with airport authorities in Brescia in northern Italy, where Ryanair is considering putting a second continental crew base. For the first hub, however, it makes more sense to choose an airport closer to the center of the mainland, Finn added.

Ryanair  DEC 4 gained a victory over British Airways when the High Court in London Tuesday dismissed BA’s case in which it charged the Irish budget airline with malicious falsehood and trademark infringement relating to a media campaign in which Ryanair claimed BA fares on competing routes were up to five times higher. The court ruled that the substance of the ads was true and amounted to honest comparative advertising.

Pan Am Dec 4plans to begin nonstop daily service between Orlando and Allentown, Pa., Jan. 8.

China Southern Airlines begins twice-weekly 777 service from Guangzhou to Sydney Wednesday. The airline plans to offer flights from China to Sydney every Wednesday and Sunday with one direct flight on Saturday.

Hapag Lloyd Belgium Dec 4, the new leisure airline from TUI Belgium, will not start operations next summer as planned after TUI Belgium shareholder Jetair signed an agreement with Sabena leisure subsidiary Sobelair.

Sabena Dec 4 decided Tuesday to suspend its weekly direct flights to Bujumbura, Burundi, until further notice while awaiting results of an investigation into an incident Monday in which a Sabena aircraft was hit by machinegun fire just before landing at Bujumbura. The A330-200 was flying from Brussels to Bujumbura and Nairobi and carried 158 passengers and a crew of 12. A passenger and a steward were injured slightly during the incident.

British Regional Airlines Group Dec 4confirmed it is in talks with an unidentified bidder. The group, owner of British Regional Airlines and Manx Airlines, was floated in June 1998. Its major shareholder is Chairman Michael Bishop, who separately is chairman and majority shareholder of British Midland.

LIAT, Air Caraibes and Winair Dec 4 teamed up to form a marketing partnership, Carib Sky Alliance. The three airlines are combining their networks linking some 46 destinations in the Caribbean region and will offer one ticket and through check-in and baggage service. They will introduce new nonstop services and develop hub-and-spoke operations at St. Maarten, Antigua, Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Lucia and Barbados.

CSA Czech Airlines, Dec 11, which is joining the Delta/Air France-led SkyTeam alliance, will join Delta’s SkyMiles partnership program along with several other airlines beginning April 1. SkyMiles members will be able to earn redeemable miles on all CSA-operated flights. Delta's codesharing agreement with CSA is set to begin March 25

All Nippon Airways and Thai Airways International DEC 11 , are to begin codesharing between Tokyo and Bangkok effective Dec. 22. The carriers operate 21 weekly roundtrips, seven by ANA and 14 by Thai. They will codeshare on around half of these.

Air Aruba Nov 1 was shut down Oct. 23 by the Aruban government, which cited the carrier’s declining financial position for its action.

Air Jamaica  Nov 1 ended service to Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, complaining that BWIA had flooded the market with excess capacity that had caused the route to become unprofitable

Malaysia Airlines Nov 1 and KLM are expanding their codeshare agreement on 11 weekly flights between Amsterdam and Kuala Lumpur to include seven beyond points in Scandinavia and seven in Australia and New Zealand.

China Southern Nov 1 launched thrice-weekly service between Guangzhou and Singapore over Hong Kong and to Kuala Lumpur via Bangkok Oct. 29 using 757s.

www.hotwire.com  Nov 1 The airline-backed travel website aiming to challenge Priceline.com for the deep-discount discretionary travel market, launched Oct. 24. Unlike Priceline's "name your price" system that requires customers to bid a fare and then purchase it if it is accepted by a participating airline, Hotwire users will propose an itinerary and receive a time-limited fare offer that they may accept or reject.

Air China and Lufthansa,Oct 20 as expected, agreed to code-share on passenger services between China and Germany; however, LH Chairman Juergen Weber said the move is not a "prelude" to Air China joining the Star Alliance. The airlines already codeshare on cargo services.

Ansett InternationalOct 20 introduced 767-300 service between Melbourne and Hong Kong in the first major expansion of its limited Asian network in three years. The launch of four weekly flights in Nov. is the initial phase in a strategy by 49% owner Air New Zealand to rebuild AI and signals renewed industry confidence in the Asian market. ANZ Executive Chairman Selwyn Cushing said AI will begin flying to the US from the start of 2001, probably using 747-400s leased from Singapore Airlines.

Canada's Competition Bureau Oct 20.on Oct. 12 ordered Air Canada to "cease and desist" from offering discount fares on five routes in eastern Canada while it determines whether the fares are predatory. The temporary order expires Oct. 31 but may be extended; it was issued following a complaint by Halifax-based CanJet that Air Canada was trying to drive it from markets it entered Sept. 5. The bureau declined to restrict AC on two other routes where CanJet had alleged predation.

Continental Airlines and Northwest AirlinesOct 20 announced the availability of interline e-ticketing between the carriers last week. They said the technology also "allows them to accept e-ticketed customers traveling on changed itineraries involving the other carrier without the need for conversion to a paper ticket."
Separately, CO said it will inaugurate daily service between Newark and London Stansted from next May 1 subject to government approval. Service will be operated with 757s.

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Delta Air LinesOct 20 will add 10 737-200s to the fleet of its low-fare Delta Express operation, expanding it to 52 aircraft by Sept. 2001. Delta Express will add service between Newark and Fort Myers from Feb. 15 and between Hartford/Springfield and Tampa from next March, with additional services to be announced soon. Overall daily departures will rise from 178 flights today to 190 flights by March.
Delta said it will record a noncash charge of $154 million, net of tax, for the quarter ended Sept. 30 when it reports results this week. The charge is "primarily due to a change in accounting for premiums paid on fuel hedge contracts ($41 million), the decline in fair value of certain equity instruments ($100 million) and the restructuring of its Portland, Ore., operation ($13 million).
Delta expects to launch nonstop service between Atlanta and Rio de Janeiro Dec. 15 following the receipt of tentative approval from DOT to operate the service.

Travelocity.com Oct 20launched what it called "the first worldwide mobile flight booking tool, as well as a rebooking capability," allowing users to purchase and rebook tickets via Internet-enabled mobile phones and wireless hand-held devices "for more than 95% of all airline seats sold."
Travelocity parent Sabre Holdings completed its tender offer for GetThere. It said it received tenders of approximately 33.5 million shares, or more than 95% of shares outstanding, at $17.75 per share.

US Airways 18/Sepfiled for authority to begin nonstop daily service from Philadelphia to Brussels starting May 10. It will operate the flights with a 767-200. Subject to government approval, this will be the carrier's ninth European destination.

Orbitz, 18/Sep the airline-owned travel website, will not launch fully until midsummer 2001 after extensive beta testing that begins this month. "By allowing a huge number of beta testers to experience Orbitz and by making adjustments based on their valuable feedback, we will make sure our site exceeds customer expectations," said Chairman, President and CEO Jeffrey Katz.

British Midland 18/Sep
confirmed it will launch service from Manchester to Washington Dulles and Chicago O'Hare airports next spring. The daily roundtrip to Washington will begin April 30 and will be the first nonstop between the cities. Manchester-Chicago will start May 21. Both services will be operated on a codeshare basis with United Airlines, for which BMA received regulatory approval in July.
    BMA ordered four Rolls-Royce Trent-powered A330-200s earlier this year. Chairman Michael Bishop hopes the flights from Manchester will pave the way for the airline to begin services to the US from London Heathrow. The next round of US-UK bilateral talks is due to take place later this month. BMA has been granted route licenses by the UK CAA for operations from Heathrow to New York, Washington, Miami and Boston.

BUZZ up the Slopes 4/Sep.
Buzz has added two new saturday ski routes to it's winter schedule from Stanstead - Chambrey, in the French Alps, and Geneva. The routes will begin operating on 23 Dec for the winter ski season. Fares to Chambrey start from GBP £120 and to GVA Geneva GBP £95 round trip

LIFT OFF VIRGIN BLUE Downunder 1/Sep.
Australia's new discount airline Virgin Blue took off on its first commercial flight from Brisbane today(31/8). The carrier plans to extend its routes to other parts of Australia in the next 12 months.
Queensland Premier Peter Beattie helped Virgin Blue chief executive Brett Godfrey to launch the first commercial flight from Brisbane to Sydney, which took off at 10.00am local time - 25 minutes later than scheduled.
Godfrey said the airline would bring two new aircraft into operation by the end of the year and hire new staff to service other destinations.
Beattie said Virgin Blue would give another boost to the Queensland tourism industry and he believes the airline would in the future expand its services to regional areas.

British Midland to Barcelona. 27 Aug

B.M. will take on flag carriers British Airways and Iberia when it launches 3 daily  non stop flights between London Heathrow and Barcelona on November the 1st 2000. With the London area airports serving BCN (Barcelona) with Easy Jet from Luton, GO from Stanstead, Virgin Express, and Buzz, competition will hot up and econ fares should drop or remain at their low level for a lot longer. British Midland expects econ fare of GBP £97 round trip. Expect introductory offers.

AIR WALES 27 Aug

Is finally set for takeoff. September the 4this the start date for 3 times a week from Cardiff to Cork, and twice a week to Stanstead. A Dornier 228 will be used for both services

Greek Sun God Helios "Smiling" 27 Aug.
Since launching London Gatwick to Larnaca Cypres route on May 26, the new airline has bolstered its three times a week service to cope with soaring demand.

Virgin Blue Latest 27 Aug.
Australia's Civil Aviation Authority expects to give Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Blue regulatory approval to start service by the first week of September "if things go according to plan," a CASA spokesman told Dow Jones Newswires. Virgin Blue declined to give a specific date for the launch. The carrier originally targeted Aug. 3 to start services between Brisbane and Sydney

21 Aug 00, Eleven airlines, including Japan Airlines and All Nippon, have joined together with Travelocity.com to develop a travel website to serve the Japanese market. Other shareholders include Northwest, United, Air New Zealand, Ansett Australia, Asiana, Cathay Pacific, China Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, Qantas, Royal Brunei and Singapore Airlines. With the exception of the two US carriers, the members also are forming an online travel exchange to serve the Asia/Pacific region outside Japan. ANA and JAL said their participation "is in line with the intention to establish future cooperation between the Japan-based company and the online travel exchange for the region."

17 July NATIONAL JET ITALIA   began operation on July 11. The new airline, established in cooperation with Australia's National Jet Systems, operates as a British Airways franchise using a pair of BAe 146-300s on British Airways franchise flights from Rome under a British World Airlines AoC. Initial services  employ two former Uni Air BAe 146-300s on four daily flights to Palermo, in Sicily. Catania, also in Sicily, will be added later in the summer. Services to both cities will gradually be built up to eight a day. NJI's 146s will be configured in a two-class configuration, with 12 Club Europe (business class) and 82 Euro Traveller (economy class) seats and painted in full British Airways livery. Alitalia have had a stranglehold on routes and prices in this region for a very long time, the "family" who oil business in this little corner of Italy will be very upset with this competition, and we fully expect a little price war

17 July VIRGIN BLUE, the new Australian budget airline, has set 3 August for its lift off with a one way fare of A$99 between Brisbane and Sydney. http://www.virgin.com

Go Airways Winter offers:   8 july
"GO" London Stanstead based low fares carrier (from British airways), has un-veiled it's winter schedule, starting October 29 and running to March 24, 2001, more than 200,000 seats will be available at it's lowest fares. Including taxes , returns from London Stanstead are from GB£50 to Edinburgh, £70 BCN Barcelona, Bilbao & Madrid, Copenhagen £80, Milan, Bologna, & Venice, Lisbon £90, Malaga, Prague & Rome (CIA), £2 discount from on-line booking. www.go-fly.com
Commernt:- These low fares carriers only sell a few seats on their planes at the cheap price you see advertised the closer to the departure date, the higher the price. Book early. Easy-jet and Buzz will announce their programs shortly, as soon as we find out we'll put it up.

Gibraltar Southern Spain Deal to London:  5 July
Monarch Airlines, British charter carrier is offloading unsold seats through local travel agents for GB £59 one-way to London Luton.   fare excludes tax valid only Tue,Wed Thur, outbound between 29 June and 19 July and one-way back to Gibraltar from london will be a higher fare. for more info call the Gib phone number 47 477

AEROLINEAS ARGENTINAS: A botched privatisation and alleged mismanagement by Spain's Iberia are behind the crippling debt that threatens to bankrupt the airline in four weeks according to Argentine President Fernando de la Rua.     Former President Carlos Menem privatised the South American airline in 1991 when Spain's flag carrier Iberia took the main stake in the company. The state-owned Spanish carrier then transferred much of its stake to Spain's state holding company, SEPI, which remains the largest shareholder.   Early this year SEPI took over the day-to-day running of Aerolineas from American Airlines parent company , which owns 8.5%. http://www.aerolineas.com.ar 

STANDBY CANADA 3000  Domestic Ticket Deals 2Jul 00
If you want to save money and are prepared to standby at the airport for an empty seat, you can register at the Canada 3000 airport standby desk. Starting at 03:00hrs for that day's flights. Your name will be called 40mins prior to departure. If you are not available upon call, your name will be removed from the list. If there is space your are on. If there is no space available, your name will be carried over to the next available flight. If you can't handle this kind of uncertainty, book through a travel agent for a confirmed seat and pay more for it.
Current ONE WAY STANDBY FARES all in CAN $
TORONTO to (Vancouver 243.43) to (Edmonton 232.73) to (Calgary 232.73) to (St John's 227.38) to ( Winnipeg 179.23) to ( Halifax 179.23) to Moncton (157.83) to (Montreal 98.98).
For other space available flights around the globe see the ride guide departure board.

AMERICAN & TAP Air Portugal 30 June 00
Have agreed to begin code sharing this winter. Pending government approval, American will put it's AA designator code on TAP's flights between Portugal and the USA, and TAP will place it's TP code on American's US domestic services beyond TAP's gateways at New York's JFK, Newark, and Boston airports.

NEW CARRIER FOR SPAIN 1 July 00
Aerolineas BALAERES Begins taking delivery this month of three Boeing 717. The new Spanish regional start up carrier, created by Spanair , will operate flights linking the Islands of Palma in  Majorca, Ibiza, and Menorca with the mainland. Again expect bargain promo fares.  

BUZZ SUMMER FREQUENCIES 1 July 00
Buzz is altering some of it's Stanstead frequencies between July 5 and Aug 13. The move follows a review of market conditions the changes will allow the KLM owned airline to maximise it's fleet. During the peak summer period, Jerez will have Wed. and Sat flights with service to BDX Bordeaux increasing to twice on Mon,Wed, Fri. They will also fly to HEL Helsinki only once a day on Wed and to Lyon once a day for the same period.  

FLY EUROPEAN AIRLINES is a new Swedish budget carrier, supported by Bournemouth based European Aviation linking Stockholm, Skavsta with Malmo, using a pair of BAC 1-11s. As always expect some cheap promotional fares for the launch month.  

GB AIRWAYS, a BA franchise operator since February 1995, have had their contract extended for a further eight year period.  GB serves 17 destinations and operates a total of 288 flights per week.  The airline has just started to replace its Boeing 737 fleet with Airbus A320 aircraft.
GB is also planning some cheap fares for routes to anf from Portugal due to low loads, and one way flights will be on offer that will be chaper than buying a return and throwing away the return protion.      http://www.gbairways.gi

AUSTRALIA:   The mini air war ‘down under’ is hotting up with Impulse Airlines beginning operations on 5 June challenging the domestic domination of (NZ owned) Ansett Australia and Qantas.  On 10 July Virgin Blue starts up, an interesting experiment from two points of view.     The airline is 100% owned by overseas interests.   Can Sir Richard Branson operate a budget carrier, this time with a completely clean slate?  Preliminery advertising is under way and the airline has already made an impact.  Impulse has three Boeing 717s operating seven daily Sydney-Melbourne return flights, the aircraft themselves very quiet with lots of passenger appeal.   However the carrier has bypassed the travel trade with direct bookings, a factor that has not gone down well with establishment.  The Qantas and  Ansett Australia   have responded by matching Impulse lead in fare of approximately £50 one way.always expect some cheap promotional faresfor the launch month

BRITISH AIRWAYS ITALIA is to launch regional services in Italy on 11 July. BA Franchise National Jets Italia will initially operate a pair of BAe 146 – 300s, on frequent daily service between Rome Fiumicino and Palermo, Sicily, followed by Rome Catania. British World Airways is providing the AOC.http://www.britishairways.com

GILL AIRWAYS, the Newcastle airline which is currently operating under administration, has recorded its best sales figures for the year, with record passengers on its Air France franchise to Paris and also on its Norwich-Aberdeen route.   The airline cites steadily growing customer confidence and a major improvement in punctuality and reliability across the network.  These improvements have largely been made possible by Gill Airways’ decision to withdraw from customer peripheral activities and to concentrate on its core business. http://www.gill-airways.com

HIGHLAND AIRWAYS, the Inverness based charter and aviation management company, has acquired a 19 passenger  BAe Jetstream 31 with delivery in  early July.    Highland also operates a pair of nine passenger Cessna 406, used in a variety of air taxi operations.

New Low Cost carrier JET BLUE is a Star. (N. America)

20 April 2000

Jet Blue started flying to Ft. Lauderdale Florida on Feb 11 2000, followed a week later to Buffalo and on March 16 to Tampa. It operates three round trip flights daily to each city from its JFK New York base, using the 162 seat Airbus A320.
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By the end of the year, the network is scheduled to cover 11 cities with 10 jets in operation. It will launch links to Burlington in the autumn and is committed to flights to Rochester and Syracuse by mid 2001. the airline expects to serve 30 destinations in it's first three years. Fares on the Jet Blue routes are on average 65% less than those charged by rivals. One way prices start at $49 to Buffalo and $79 to Ft. Lauderdale or Tampa, excluding taxes. There is no Saturday night stay requirement.

Easy Jet (Europe)

20 April 2000

Easy, has introduced a new policy to encourage on-line booking. From May 1st 2000, passengers wishing to purchase their flights more than two months in advance must do so via the net and use a credit card. Telephone bookings will be permitted if the departure date is less then this period, but the airline says that it is a move to increase it's online bookings to 70 to 75% by the end of the year. Passengers will also get £5 discount by online booking.©

BUZZ UK Low fares Carrier (Europe)

20 April 2000

Buzz the KLM owned budget airline, has introduced new services from STN Stanstead to HEL Helsinki. The airline has acquired two 142 seat Boeing 737-300's from Deutche BA. Booking online passengers can receive a £7 discount on their fare.©

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CITY BIRD

30 Nov 99 © Adventurair 1999

Low cost trans-Atlantic carrier City Bird based in Brussels is launching a European version of itself. City Bird will inaugurate European destinations after finalising the acquisition of two Boeing 737-400  (pax cap 140) The Belgian Carrier has up to now only specialised in Long Haul Ops.©

New Airline  for the MALDIVE Islands

30 Nov 99

Air Maldives is a new start up carrier for the Islands, all we know so far is that they are operating one Airbus A300 B4 capacity of 300 passengers, they are the only airline that fly direct to these beautiful islands from Europe. © Adv

enturair 1999

CHEAP  only £199 round trip, they only have one airplane and rumours say they fly on Tue and Sat from London Gatwick, if their plane breaks down, you could be in for some long delays.

GB AIRWAYS New route London Gatwick to Nantes, France

30 Nov 99

British Airways partner carrier GB Airways is launching Nantes in Brittany as a new route, in March 2000, keep a look out for some great introductory fares.

New Trans-Atlantic Carrier

Coming soon, June 2000 supposedly. Long established airline British Midland Airlines based in London Heathrow, is planning to spread it's wings across to the USA in Spring 2000.

Using their newly ordered Airbus A330, initial rumours are Washington IAD, and Minneapolis.

Discounts. Airlines historically offer some introductory airfares on new launches so if you are planning to travel there and then try them out.

New Budget European Airline.

KLM (UK) operated by Air UK will be launching "BUZZ" a low cost carrier operating from London Stanstead using the Boeing 737. © Adventurair 1999

Expected Launch date January 2000 expect some good launch rates.

Dirty tricks by major Airlines.....Air France and British Airways.

What are they up to,well they have some very competitive prices, reason being is that they are subsidised by the European union to the tune of
over a Billion $(US).

If you should happen to be terminating or originating a flight in France
and contemplating using Air France, think again, tickets sold in France
are 2 to 3 times more expensive than for the same ticket bought outside
France, even if that ticket includes an additional flight into the Paris HUB.

We're not exactly clear why they have such outrageous pricing, but there are good deals to be had for tickets all over the place as long as you buy and originate outside France.

We spoke to one traveller who was on her way to Johannesburg from Paris, she bought a round trip from Paris to Brussels, and a round trip from Brussels to Johannesburg (via) Paris for half the price of a French bought Paris--Jo-burg.

Basically don't buy a ticket on the national carrier of the country you are in. Buy your ticket from a rival national carrier, then they will offer you a better price to "steal you", from your local carrier. This will involve an additional flight to their main hub of operation, but will ultimately work out significantly cheaper.

Example, The official British Airways Round Trip economy from London to Sydney, for the same date Dec.1999, a passenger buying in London would pay £1,789. a passenger buying in Amsterdam again on BA with the additional flight into London would only pay £789. therefore saving 127%.

Most people don't investigate this and would not want to make another connection, so the airlines can hold travellers to ransom.. You have been warned.

Adventurair

20 November 1999  Our  new flight data base is not as full as it should be because Both Allan And Mike owners of the Adventurair have moved to new Airlines and with the intensity of the training program have not had a lot of time to devote to the departure board.

What we're up to,

Well great inroads are being made with our flight sourcing, this wasn't our original intention to do too much of this, as you already have all you need to source your own flights, but be that as it may were doing some digging, most of the flights you will see on the departure boards are one way as we want to make available to you all those empty seats we have told you about,
it's early days yet but you can already see by what is currently on the departure board, what were coming up with, and what is out there. © Adventurair 1999

Any real juicy flights will always be displayed on your members departure board first. You become a member buy getting your own Ride Guide

Our main areas of concentration will be empty airliners between N. America & Europe Europe & South Africa, Europe & South Africa to Australia/NZ.

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© Adventurair 1999