| Asian airlines charge world's lowest domestic airfares
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (eTN) -- A study commissioned by Malaysia Airlines has revealed that eight Asian-based airlines, with the exception of Japanese Airlines, charge the lowest fares per mile in the world for domestic flights on full service carriers. Domestic airfares in France comes in at ninth, charging US$1.03 per mile and the UK at tenth lowest, charging $1.05 per mile for European-based carriers in the table of ten lowest fares. US and Canadian carriers, outside of the top ten on the table, charge an average of $2.88 per mile. "Thai carriers charge the cheapest at only 17 cents per mile, followed by Malaysia a close second at 19 cents, with the highest charged by an Asian carrier at 54 cents per mile, by Australian carriers. The study confirms the assertion in the travel industry that Asian carriers offer the best deals for holiday travel when bundled with hotel rooms.
‘Online bookings are growing in non-metro cities’
One of the important trends to notice is that online bookings are growing in non-metro cities at a pace equal to that in metros. We plan to capture 20 per cent of the online travel agency market by the end of 2006. How would you distinguish Yatra from the other travel retail websites? Yatra has been established to cater to the local domestic market. Our competitive edge is our ability to offer customers a multi-channel distribution environment. Our investors have been strategically chosen in order to assist us in gaining this competitive edge. Reliance has a strong retail infrastructure via Reliance Infocom which will allow us to use their retails outlets for fulfillment and payment purposes, allowing us to reach 5,000 Indian cities and villages. Our Flexible Flight Search tool enables customers to find the cheapest fare two days either side of their chosen date.
Mission house at the center of Baptist outreach in NY
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (BP)--Its just another nondescript red-brick building in Brooklyn dating back to the 1920s. It has been a furniture store, a funeral home, a dentists office and, during World War II, it housed a draft board that sent troops to defend the country.
Today, with its green door facing the corner of 5th Avenue and 21st Street in Brooklyns Park Slope community, the David Dean Mission House is a launching pad for Southern Baptists post-9/11 mission work across the New York Citys five boroughs.
In 1991, David Dean, then-executive director of the Metropolitan New York Baptist Association, had a dream.
I envision MNYBA purchasing a mission house ... a residence with 5-6 bedrooms, easily accessible to the city and public transportation for the purpose of providing housing for mission volunteers, like Mission Service Corps, US-2, student workers and others who cannot afford to come to New York because of the high cost of housing, Dean wrote 15 years ago.
Black travel clubs provide camaraderie and counsel
Before buying plane tickets, booking hotels or checking out guidebooks, many African-Americans are turning to a source close to home to inspire their travel planning: each other. More precisely, they are seeking out travel clubs run by and for blacks. After a post-9/11 drop-off, organizations and gatherings promoting travel opportunities for blacks are reporting increased interest. .
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