30th March 2010

Saraswat Bank now offers MoneyGram

The biggest travel-related financial services firm, Thomas Cook, has recently signed a contract with Saraswat Co-operative Bank to offer its international money transfer service throughout all of the bank’s branches.
Saraswat Bank, India’s leading co-operative savings bank, has a total asset of more than Rs22,000 crore. The bank has an interconnected network of over 200 branches – spreading across Goa, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Delhi. With the new tie up, all of Saraswat Bank’s clients will be able to use the fund transfer service MoneyGram offered by Thomas Cook.
Madhavan Menon, Managing Director of Thomas Cook-India, said that the partnership [...]

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30th March 2010

Lawsuits filed against Airbus over Air France crash

Relatives of passengers killed in the ill-fated Air France Flight 447 have recently filed nearly two dozen wrongful death lawsuits in Florida against the aircraft maker Airbus.
The grievances claim that the A330 crashed because of several flaws in the plane and its components that were manufactured in the US. Podhurst Orseck, a Miami-based law firm, has filed a total of 23 wrongful death complaints on behalf of the passengers’ relatives and is expecting to add 10 more claims in the following few weeks.
However, Airbus – a European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company division – called the claims unjustifiable. Clay McConnell, [...]

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30th March 2010

New car rental depot and transit centre announced for San Diego Airport

The San Diego County Regional Airport Authority has announced that environmental work will be required on the site of the new car rental facility which is currently being constructed at Lindbergh Field.
The new site is designed to make the rental process and management of rental companies more efficient, both for consumers and the environment at the Pacific Highway location. The new facility will make the experience more practical by combining all aspects of renting under one convenient distribution centre. This will not only serve customers more effectively, but will also relieve the often congested Harbor Drive road area where rental [...]

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30th March 2010

Advito issues revised industry forecasts

BCD Travel, the world’s third-largest travel management organisation, has released its global update for the first quarter through its consulting unit Advito. The revised update includes projections that hotel room rates will fall and that car rental charges will rise, with North American airfares remaining stable.
The hotel rate revision was applied to room rates at leading travel markets including China, Spain, France, India, Germany, Brazil, the UK and the US. Advito said that the new outlook was based on the slow pace of global economic recovery along with emerging markets showing increased capacity. The figures reflected the stabilisation of American Depository [...]

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30th March 2010

Hertz and Alamo offer discounts for Florida clients

Good news for travellers who are looking for a reasonably priced car hire and who are journeying out of Florida! Several car hire firms are now offering great rental deals. Car hire firms like Hertz, Alamo and Enterprise currently have too many cars ready for hire in Florida.
According to reports, several companies are now giving [...]

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