Travel News.Bidding for tickets falls out of travelers' favor. Priceline.com (priceline.com Incorporated, Norwalk, CT, www.priceline.com) A Web-based travel shopping site launched in 1998 where buyers submit the price they are willing to pay for airline tickets, hotel rooms, vacation packages and rental cars. says the popularity of its name-your-own-price model is declining. Opaque bookings have fallen 30% to 40% in the past few years, Chief Executive Jeffery Boyd said. Discount airlines and new simplified fare structures now allow most travelers to find the lowest fare themselves, he said. Feb 14, 2006 U.S. space tourism could launch by 2008. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta told a group of space entrepreneurs that permits for test flights to transport tourists into space could be issued next year and the first paying space travelers could lift off by 2008. Three space tourists have already taken rides aboard the Russian Russian associated in some way with Russia. Russian blue a breed of cats with short, dense, silver-tipped blue-colored coat and vivid green eyes. Soyuz spaceships, but the fares weren't cheap, each paid $20 million. Feb 13, 2006 Storm snarls airlines' East Coast operations. A record blizzard blizzard, winter storm characterized by high winds, low temperatures, and driving snow; according to the official definition given in 1958 by the U.S. Weather Bureau, the winds must exceed 35 mi (56 km) per hr and the temperature 20°F; (−7°C;) or lower. that hit the East Coast over the weekend is affecting flights today. The three New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. metropolitan area airports have reopened after closing Sunday Sunday: see Sabbath; week. . Many carriers are not running on schedule and are expecting delays and cancellations. Feb 13, 2006 |
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