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Cash-strapped travelers may finally get a break on rising hotel prices this fall -- courtesy of airline cutbacks and high gasoline prices. Airlines' service cuts and rising fuel costs have damped travel demand to several popular resort destinations ...

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Travel Slump Has an Upside: Deals on Hotels - Wall Street Journal

Sabre has introduced another merchandising first through its Air Merchandising Suite, allowing airlines to differentiate and sell premium airline seats at the time of the original booking, in all distribution channels: online, offline, direct, and ...

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Sabre Launches Another Merchandising First - Forbes

For the first time in the modern era, the nation's stock markets will remain closed for at least three consecutive trading days--and may not reopen until Monday, stock exchange officials said Wednesday. Richard Grasso, chairman and chief executive of ...

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Stock trading still halted - Baltimore Sun

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Weekend Enterprise Digest, TX - Rocky Mountain News

The sudden loss of pressure in an airliner cabin, as occurred on the Ryanair flight, is a frightening and potentially painful experience for passengers but it is does not usually endanger the aircraft. Half a dozen episodes of rapid pressure loss ...

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Sudden loss of airline pressure is frightening but not usually ... - Times Online

Ryanair , the Dublin-based no-frills airline, has justified cancelling about 500 tickets bought by passengers using other websites, saying these internet travel agents were inflating the real cost of buying its budget tickets. In response to an ...

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Ryanair defends ‘screenscraper’ cancellations - Financial Times

Southwest LUV says it plans to reduce flying by about 5% in January. The carrier's winter schedule, which begins Jan. 11, shows a reduction of nearly 200 flights. Southwest currently makes about 3,400 daily flights. During a conference call in July ...

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Southwest to Pare Back Winter Schedule - Street.Com

DALLAS (AP) -- Southwest Airlines Co., which had resisted the kinds of capacity cuts being made by other carriers, will eliminate nearly 200 flights early next year as it struggles with high fuel costs and a weakening economy. The move raised doubts ...

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Southwest will ground 196 flights - CNN Money

To get the best deal on travel, Paul Ewing, a self-proclaimed road warrior, says he first compares "baseline fares" at online travel agency Orbitz.com because he likes the site's layout. The software developer from Dallas then checks the Web site of ...

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Tangled Web: Finding Deals On Travel Sites - Wall Street Journal

Southwest Airlines , the largest carrier at Long Island MacArthur Airport, said yesterday that beginning in January it plans to cut 190 daily flights, including one of six daily trips between the Ronkonkoma airport and Orlando, Fla. The Dallas-based ...

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