Archive for March, 2010
Irish Heritage & Adare Manor Tour
Irish Heritage & Adare Manor Tour from $1398 pp. Land only. Deluxe & Superior First Class Hotels – 7 nights/12 meals 8 days land only from Shannon to Shannon Highlights include: Bunratty Castle Banquet, Merry Ploughboy Pub dinner & show, Cliffs of Moher, Foynes Flying Boat Museum & Irish coffee, Deluxe hotel in Killarney. Hotels: 1n [...]
Managing Your Hotel Policy
Managing a hotel program can be a daunting task, but an unmanaged hotel program can be costly to a company’s travel budget. Travelers don’t seem to want to be told where to stay or how much they can spend, but mandating a hotel program can provide savings in several ways. If you arrange travel through [...]
Strike Season is upon us.
It seems like every few years the global airline industry undergoes a series of labor actions, ranging from work slowdowns to strikes. It would appear that wheel has turned and we are back to a period of strikes pending. Here are some of the ones that may impact your travel plans. The pilots at TAP [...]
Top 5 Don’ts of visiting Paris!
Top 5 Don’ts of Visiting Paris! 1. Commit a fashion faux pax…For starters, don’t ever, even in the sweltering dog days of summer, think about wearing a pair of shorts unless you really want to be treated like a hapless tourist. While you’re at it leave those gleaming white running shoes at home too! It’s [...]
Delta Shuttle to Launch Service between New York LaGuardia and Chicago O’Hare
Delta Airlines announced plans today to launch hourly shuttle service between New York LaGuardia and Chicago O’Hare beginning June 10, 2010. The announcement was made today as part of the carrier’s decision to replace the existing less frequent service between its New York hub and Chicago’s Midway Airport. Delta has combined on-board ammenities such as [...]
United Now Offers Mobile Check-In
United has installed mobile check-in at its four hub cities – Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington Dulles – plus Las Vegas, Dallas-Fort Worth and LaGuardia Airport in New York. Thirty more locations will be offering mobile check-in by summer Denver joins 43 other U.S. airports, plus Frankfurt, Germany in offering this service. In [...]
Savings tips: Every little bit counts
Despite rising costs for business trips, there are a number of ways for getting the most out of your money – 10 tips for frugal travel management. Naturally there’s not just one big savings capacity out there waiting to be tapped in order to reduce your travel costs or at most keep worldwide rising prices [...]
United’s New Unlimited Upgrades
When you travel United airlines, your upgrade experience is about to get easier: beginning March 19, 2010, for elite members, an upgrade request will automatically be placed on your behalf when you purchase domestic revenue fares for travel on United or United Express. For elite members, an upgrade request is automatically placed on your behalf at [...]
JFK Airport Runway Project…worse before it get’s better…
The Port Authority of NY & NJ is tackling delays with the reconstruction of the Bay Runway at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Once completed, this project will reduce delays overall by an estimated 10,500 hours per year. What is the Bay Runway Project? Beginning March 1, 2010 one of the four runways at JFK [...]
Shall I drive my own car… or rent one?
Owners, financial guru’s and sourcing managers, mileage reimbursement is a huge expense when employees drive their own cars for work purposes. Did you know that based on a reimbursement rate of $0.50 cents anything over 120 miles driven by using a personal car is more expensive than renting one? Companies both large and small that require their [...]