Travel & Travel Technology News.Jun 18, 2007EU Official Critical Of Space Tourism. The European Union's industry commissioner on Thursday blasted companies' plans to offer space flights to tourists, calling them a gimmick for the privileged elite. Jun 14, 2007 The United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. is to temporarily relax new rules requiring passports for US citizens flying to Canada, Mexico, Bermuda and the Caribbean because of a huge passport application backlog. The decision, announced a day after a controversial bill to revamp immigration laws immigration laws npl → leyes fpl de inmigración immigration laws npl → lois fpl sur l'immigration immigration laws npl and tighten border security stalled in Congress, will make it easier for thousands of Americans to keep their summer vacation Summer vacation (also called summer holidays or summer break) is a vacation in the summertime between school years in which students are off for 3 months, depending on the country and district. plans but may expose the White House to criticism that it undermines border security. Until September Until September is a 1984 romantic drama set in France. It stars Karen Allen as an American tourist in Paris who falls in love with a married Frenchman (Thierry Lhermitte). External links , US citizens going to Canada, Mexico, Bermuda and the Caribbean may travel with government-issued identification and official State Department proof showing they have applied for a passport. Jun 11, 2007 Canada loosened its requirements for passports applications on Friday in an effort to cut a backlog triggered by Washington's strict new rules for cross-border travel into the United States. "The volume (of applications) has been substantially increased, and we had to respond to that," Foreign Minister Peter MacKay Peter Gordon MacKay, Conservative, QC, MP (born September 27, 1965) serves as the member of Parliament (MP) for Central Nova, Nova Scotia, Canada's Minister of National Defence and Minister for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. told reporters in a passport office passport office passport n → bureau m de délivrance des passeports passport office passport n → Passamt nt passport office . Canada will no longer require professionals, like mayors or doctors, to vouch for the identity of applicants, serving as a guarantor. Any passport holder can now vouch for anybody else. And Ottawa will make it simpler to renew passports, no longer requiring proof of citizenship once again or another declaration from a guarantor. Jun 11, 2007 Aegean Airlines, Sabre Sabre Airline Solutions Sabre Airline Solutions is a subsidiary of Sabre Holdings. The main product of Sabre Airline Solutions is the SabreSonic system. This provides departure control, reservations, and, inventory management. signed a "major" revenue management contract with Aegean Airlines. The Greek carrier will use the product to control seat price and availability by both flight leg and segment. It anticipates "significant" incremental revenue as a result. Jun 13, 2007 AviIT, Phantom Media AviIT and Phantom Media announced the formal launch of their 50/50 joint venture bluebox Avionics to develop inflight entertainment systems for the airline industry. Under the JV, "AviIT is responsible for all software and infrastructure design and development whilst Phantom Media provides its expertise in content provision." The companies claim their bluebox system "could remove up to 1.5 tonnes of weight from a typical widebody aircraft compared to a conventional AVOD AVOD Audio/Video On Demand AVOD Audio Video on Demand system." Jun 15, 2007 Clickair Spanish carrier, Clickair, says it will become the first airline in the world to eliminate check-in. Jun 13, 2007 Continental Airlines, Boeing, Avionica Avionica won orders from Continental Airlines to outfit nine Boeing 737-800s with its new satLINK Iridium iridium (ĭrĭd`ēəm), metallic chemical element; symbol Ir; at. no. 77; at. wt. 192.22; m.p. about 2,410°C;; b.p. about 4,130°C;; sp. gr. 22.55 at 20°C;; valence +3 or +4. system. Avionica said the initial installations will provide an Iridium phone handset in the cockpit, which is expected to be augmented by a wireless cabin handset and integration with the aircraft's communications management unit. Jun 14, 2007 Ryanair, OnAir Ryanair's plans to launch inflight mobile phones in cooperation with OnAir have been delayed by four months as regulatory approval has taken longer than expected, the Irish Independent confirmed. The system has approval from relevant Irish authorties, but a handful of other countries, mainly in Scandinavia, have yet to agree. CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Michael O'Leary last week conceded that the new system will not be running until November at the earliest. The LCC (Leadless Chip Carrier, Leaded Chip Carrier) See leadless chip carrier, CLCC and PLCC. 1. LCC - Language for Conversational Computing. Written at CMU in the 1960's. and SITA announced last summer that Ryanair would outfit its entire 737 fleet with OnAir's onboard mobile communications solution. OnAir was scheduled to equip 50 aircraft during the second half with the remainder receiving installations from early 2008. Jun 11, 2007 SITA SITA added Global Systems of UAE (Uninterruptible Application Error) The name given to a crash in Windows 3.0. In subsequent versions of Windows, a crash was called a "General Protection Fault," "Application Error" or "Illegal Operation." See crash in Windows and abend. to its international network of Indirect Channel partners that provide the company's IT solutions to airports that handle 5 million passengers or fewer per year. Global Systems will offer SITA solutions to airports in Morocco List of airports in Morocco, sorted by location.
LOCATION ICAO IATA AIRPORT NAME Civil Airports , Algeria and Libya with plans to extend further into Africa in a later phase. Jun 15, 2007 Spanair, Vodafone Vodafone Spain and Spanair signed a partnership agreement launching a "two-dimensional code system that will enable passengers to receive their boarding card on their mobile phone and proceed directly to security and boarding." Jun 11, 2007 ZZ Editorial eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For Air Transport & Travel Business Experts contact our Director of Content Aram Gesar eMail: bizintel@AirGuideOnline.com For more global news, reviews, features and analysis, please subscribe to our Newsletters: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm#news To Advertise: advert@AirGuideOnline.com AirGuideFlightTracker is a new service that keeps travelers informed on flight and airport status via the Web. For more go to http://www.airguideonline.com/airline_tracker.htm Copyright [c] 2007 Air Travel Media / Pyramid Media Group. All rights reserved. |
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