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Air Fares Nosedive Amid Falling Travel Demand - Financial Times
falling demand for business and leisure travel is causing a marked decline in air fares, with uk fares to north america declining by nearly a half, according to american express. air fares peaked earlier this year as a result of rising oil costs. but ...
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Air Fares Nosedive Amid Falling Travel Demand
falling demand for business and leisure travel is causing a marked decline in air fares, with uk fares to north america declining by nearly a half, according to american express.
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Fractional Ownership To Get Boost At Major uk Travel Shows
a new consumer magazine for existing owners and prospective buyers of fractional ownership properties and other shared ownership travel products has confirmed that they will be exhibiting and distributing at 6 major travel shows in 2009 with a combined reach of around 250,000 visitors. [pr.com - september 17, 2008]
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Taiwan Fetes Foreigners With Simplified Writing System - Reuters Uk
taipei (reuters) - taiwan has adopted a common roman alphabet system to spell chinese-language names, ending decades of confusion among non-native readers, and will change signs around the island next year, an official said on thursday. the cabinet ...
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The End Of A Profligate Era - Guardian Unlimited
we seem to be at the simultaneous end of many eras. the end of some iconic american investment banks (lehman brothers and merrill lynch); the end of cheap oil and gas; the end of cheap food; the end of cheap credit; and, with last week's collapse of ...
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Winter Air Travel To Fall By Up To 4 Percent, Easyjet Says
the british budget airline easyjet said it expected profit to fall and full-year pretax profit to fall and predicted a 2 to 4 percent fall in airline travel this winter.
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Uk: The Glenrothes Readies Travel Retail Addition
the glenrothes has unveiled a travel retail-exclusive addition to its range of single malt scotch whiskies.
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Surveyors Really Do Know The Value Of Everything - The Independent
gap-year adventures come in many guises but regardless of where you go, the question on most returnees' minds is: how and when can i get back out there? well, surveying may just be your ticket. the scope is immense, from huge construction projects to ...
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Fancy Exchanging Your Car For A Pony? Horse Power May Be Making A ... - The Independent
it could be a scene from a bygone age: a pony and trap makes its way over tower bridge. but this pony and trap, driven by dan tipple, is surrounded by cars, their drivers slowing down for a look. armani the pony transports dan all over london ...
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Unemployment Continues To Rise In Uk
uk - employment the number of people out of work in the uk rose by another 81,000 between may and july, to 1.72 million, according to government figures published wednesday.
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(afx Uk Focus) 2008-09-17 12:10 Analysis-britain's Pubs Braced For More Closures
london, sept 17 (reuters) - britain's cash-strapped pubs groups, faced with the toughest trading conditions for years, look set to accelerate pub closures as the government turns the screws and presses ahead with planned tax rises. the british beer and pub association (bbpa) has said closures across the uk are running at five a day, up a third on last year, with close to 1,900 of the country's ...
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Phyllis Thom: Nurse And Japanese Internment Survivor - Times Online
phyllis thom was caught up in the japanese invasion of malaya in december 1941, while working as a young colonial nursing service sister in the general hospital at alor star in kedah. evacuated first to singapore, she worked in a hospital receiving ...
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Gallagher Acquires Uk's Oxygen Insurance Managers
oxygen holdings plc, a london market insurance intermediary, and arthur j gallagher (uk) announced the sale of oxygen's underwriting subsidiary, oxygen insurance managers ltd. (oim) to gallagher (uk),
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Children In Scotland Have Suffered Less From Changes In Policies Than Other Parts Of The Uk, A New Report Said Today.
a woman dying from cancer, who faced threats of arrest over a hotel bill after the collapse of travel firm xl, was reunited with her family at home yesterday.
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Air Travel Policies Review Urged - Guardian Unlimited
there should be an independent review of labour's aviation policy in the light of "conflicting arguments and incomplete data", a government advisory body has said. a review was necessary as a series of events had changed the aviation world since the ...
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Union Warns Of Travel Disruption - Bbc Uk News
the transport salaried staffs' association (tssa) made the warning ahead of its members' plans to picket arriva trains wales (atw) depots. the 30 driver managers will picket depots at cardiff, chester and warrington from noon as part of a 24-hour ...
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Easyjet Holds Guidance But Sees Less Winter Travel
budget airline easyjet said it still expected full-year pretax profit to fall to 110 million pounds to 120 million, and predicted a 2 to 4 percent fall in airline travel this winter.
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A&l Launches Pre-paid Travel Card
uk bank alliance & leicester (a&l) has partnered payments vendor indigosolutions to launch a pre-paid foreign currency card with sms top-ups for ...
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Stranded Tourists Fly Back Home - Bbc Uk News
thousands of people were left stranded by the collapse of xl tourists left stranded after the collapse of travel company xl are continuing to arrive back in the uk. more than 29,000 holidaymakers have been brought home after the civil aviation ...
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