Discount Business Travel News for 04/26/2008



Business Briefs - Honolulu Star-Bulletin

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Honolulu Star-Bulletin, HI - 14 hours ago
The marketers obtained customers' bank account numbers while selling products including vouchers for discount travel and groceries and medical discount .
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Wachovia to pay $144 million to settle telemarketing allegations - Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON -- Wachovia Corp. has agreed to pay an estimated $144 million to settle federal allegations that it failed to stop telemarketers who were charged with taking advantage of thousands of elderly consumers. The federal Office of the ...

Airfares in Asia Pacific still on the rise, domestic fare increases.
New Delhi : Airfares across Asia Pacific continued their upward trend with a 1 per cent increase in the fourth quarter of 2007...

Platinum One Destinations (P1D) Fees Exposed For Renewal and Points . - WebWire
Platinum One Destinations (P1D) Members continue to find the hidden fees associated with using the new discount travel membership program. High annual renewal fees and the need to purchase additional points put home based business marketers trying to ...

Elleipsis Inc. Signs Cruise Booking Deal With Carlisle Travel . - Web Services Journal

Elleipsis Inc. Signs Cruise Booking Deal With Carlisle Travel .
Web Services Journal, NJ - Apr 24, 2008
Elleipsis' products include TravelTalk Suite of business solutions. Elleipsis offers travel agents and travel industry suppliers the powerful TravelTalk .
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Business Briefs - Miami Herald
Wall Street ended its second straight winning week with a moderate advance Friday, overcoming investors' concerns about consumer confidence and inflation. The market rose early in the session, then gave the gains after the release of the Reuters ...

Wachovia to pay up to $144M to settle marketing allegations - Forbes

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Wachovia to pay up to $144M to settle marketing allegations
Forbes, NY - Apr 25, 2008
The marketers obtained customers' bank account numbers while selling products including vouchers for discount travel and groceries and medical discount .
Wachovia to pay up to $144M to settle marketing allegations International Herald Tribune
Wachovia Agrees to $144M Settlement in Marketing Case TransWorldNews (press release)
Wachovia to pay up to $144 million to settle telemarketing probe Forbes
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LastMinuteTravel.com Launches Discount Travel Club
LastMinuteTravel.com , the online authority for late breaking travel deals, announces the launch of a new discount travel club that offers exclusive access to behind-the-scenes rates on nearly 13,000 A-list ...

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How to turn a business trip into a vacation (MSNBC)
Some business travelers are adding a few personal days to their trips. Here are tips on what to do in lesser-known countries...

Airlines: Safety Concerns and Vacation Travel (Newsweek)
How higher prices, increased delays and canceled flights may affect your vacation...

The Turbulent Travel Season Ahead - Newsweek

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The Turbulent Travel Season Ahead
Newsweek - Apr 25, 2008
These are turbulent times for the airline business. Industry insiders are using words like "unprecedented," "ugly" and "very rough" to describe the .
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Business briefs Submit business news online, and more (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
Local business people can now go online to submit news about their company or staff members for publication in the Herald Tribune Business Weekly section that comes out Mondays. Just go to www.heraldtribune.com businessweekly and click on the appropriate department Grand Openings, Business People, Real Estate People or Good Deeds...

Discount carriers try to lure business fliers
With fuel costs high and leisure travel expected to slip because of a slowing economy, two discount airlines are dangling new lures in front of the lucrative business market...

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Business Briefs (Miami Herald)
Week ends up, again Wall Street ended its second straight winning week with a moderate advance Friday, overcoming investors' concerns about consumer confidence and inflation...

Wachovia to settle telemarketing allegations - Chicago Tribune
Wachovia Corp. has agreed to pay roughly $144 million to settle charges that it took advantage of thousands of elderly customers through questionable relationships with telemarketers. The federal Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said Friday ...

Airlines: Safety Concerns and Vacation Travel (Newsweek)
How higher prices, increased delays and canceled flights may affect your vacation...

Elleipsis Inc. Signs Cruise Booking Deal With Carlisle Travel Management's Abracadabra! Cruises (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
Elleipsis Global Travel Solutions, Inc. (Pinksheets: EGTS), an innovative travel technology company and provider of aggregated travel services, announced today an agreement to provide its cruise booking solution, named TravelTalk(TM) Portal, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Elleipsis, Inc., to discount cruise provider Abracadabra! Cruises...

National business briefs - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Oil prices rose sharply Friday on news that a ship under contract to the U.S. Defense Department fired warning shots at two boats in the Persian Gulf. Retail gas prices as expected rose further into record territory, nearing $3.60 a gallon. Crude ...

How to turn a business trip into a vacation (MSNBC)
Some business travelers are adding a few personal days to their trips. Here are tips on what to do in lesser-known countries...

Elleipsis Inc. Signs Cruise Booking Deal With Carlisle Travel Management's Abracadabra! Cruises (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
Elleipsis Global Travel Solutions, Inc. (Pinksheets: EGTS), an innovative travel technology company and provider of aggregated travel services, announced today an agreement to provide its cruise booking solution, named TravelTalk(TM) Portal, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Elleipsis, Inc., to discount cruise provider Abracadabra! Cruises...

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Wachovia to pay up to $144 million to settle marketing allegations - Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON -- Wachovia Corp. has agreed to pay an estimated $144 million to settle charges that it took advantage of thousands of elderly customers through questionable relationships with telemarketers. The federal Office of the Comptroller of the ...

Discount carriers try to lure business fliers
With fuel costs high and leisure travel expected to slip because of a slowing economy, two discount airlines are dangling new lures in front of the lucrative business market...

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It becomes important for the businessmen and women to travel. If you are able to reimburse your travelling expenses in your company,you may not worry about the travelling expenses. But, If you are a business men who travel quite often, ...

Air Canada to charge for second checked bag on some flights - Globe and Mail
MONTREAL EUR” EUR” Air Canada announced plans Friday to charge its lowest-fare customers $25 for second checked bags on North American flights as part of an effort to combat rising fuel costs. The new charge will start July 15 for passengers who ...

Business Briefs (Miami Herald)
Week ends up, again Wall Street ended its second straight winning week with a moderate advance Friday, overcoming investors' concerns about consumer confidence and inflation...

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GM, United chiefs' 2007 pay revealed..

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How much are people willing to pay to fly? - Minneapolis Star Tribune
The cost to fly is climbing fast, and this year the trend could extend well beyond the peak summer travel season. So far this year, travelers have been hit with nine fare increases, the latest coming Friday as Northwest Airlines and most others ...

BUSINESS BRIEFS (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Massey Energy Co. expects to open a new coal mine every 17 days this year as it continues an ambitious expansion designed to increase production 25 percent by 2010. Chief Executive Don Blankenship told Wall Street analysts yesterday that the Richmond-based company has secured all the government permits and equipment it needs for the expansion...

Wachovia settles with OCC for $144M (Philadelphia Business Journal)
Wachovia Bank has agreed to pay $144 million in a settlement with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), which required the bank to make restitution to consumers harmed by its relationships with several telemarketers and third-party payment processors who obtained customers' bank account information while selling vouchers for discount travel and other products. (WB)..

Commission to see new plans for restaurant
SPRING HILL - Revamped plans for a new Captain D's restaurant go before the city Planning Commission tonight...

Fuel costs thwart discount airfare (The Courier News)
As rising fuel prices propel air fares toward the stratosphere, most travelers would like nothing better than to see a new low-cost carrier with rock-bottom ticket prices...

Soaring fuel costs limit prospects for ultra-cheap carriers - Houston Chronicle

Soaring fuel costs limit prospects for ultra-cheap carriers
Houston Chronicle, United States - Apr 25, 2008
Existing discount carriers like Southwest Airlines, Jet Blue and year-old Virgin America, while selling tickets at well above the level of Skybus-type .
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How To Turn A Biz Trip Into A Vacation - Forbes

How To Turn A Biz Trip Into A Vacation
Forbes, NY - Apr 22, 2008
How do you make business travel better? Weigh in. Add your thoughts in the Reader Comments section below. Malaysia, an S&P emerging market, is home to the .
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Wachovia to pay up to $144 mln to settle probe - Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Wachovia Bank agreed to pay as much as $144 million to settle allegations it failed to help consumers who fell prey to schemes operated by telemarketers that maintained accounts at the bank, regulators said on Friday. The bank ...

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Wachovia settles with OCC for $144M (Philadelphia Business Journal)
Wachovia Bank has agreed to pay $144 million in a settlement with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), which required the bank to make restitution to consumers harmed by its relationships with several telemarketers and third-party payment processors who obtained customers' bank account information while selling vouchers for discount travel and other products. (WB)..

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The Subprime Summer Vacation - Wall Street Journal

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The Subprime Summer Vacation
Wall Street Journal - 20 hours ago
Hotwire, a discount travel Web site that also tracks airfare trends, says average fares on many routes rose as much as 40% during spring break and the .
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Platinum One Destinations (P1D) Fees Exposed For Renewal and . - WebWire (press release)

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WebWire (press release), GA - Apr 25, 2008
Platinum One Destinations (P1D) Members continue to find the hidden fees associated with using the new discount travel membership program. .
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Ten ways to be a savvy sales shopper - Times Online
HIGH-STREET retailers are offering discounts as high as 86% to lure in consumers hit by rising fuel and food prices. Sales on the high street suffered their worst fall for two years in March, down 1.6% on the previous year, according to the British ...

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Informative Post, OH - 12 hours ago
The top Internet scams that were included in the list were multi level marketing, health care frauds, website design/promotions, discount travel, .
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BUSINESS BRIEFS (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Massey Energy Co. expects to open a new coal mine every 17 days this year as it continues an ambitious expansion designed to increase production 25 percent by 2010. Chief Executive Don Blankenship told Wall Street analysts yesterday that the Richmond-based company has secured all the government permits and equipment it needs for the expansion...

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Amex Business Travel Index Shows Domestic Fares Flatten - Business Travel News

Amex Business Travel Index Shows Domestic Fares Flatten
Business Travel News, NY - Apr 15, 2008
. business travelers booked by American Express Business Travel and includes multiple fare types including first class, unrestricted and discount fares. .
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Industry troubles don't end in the air
Amy Brewer is tired of winging it. Traveling on business this week, she faced hours of delays when American Airlines' flight cancellations forced her to make alternative arrangements...

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Fuel costs thwart discount airfare (The Courier News)
As rising fuel prices propel air fares toward the stratosphere, most travelers would like nothing better than to see a new low-cost carrier with rock-bottom ticket prices...

Business briefs Submit business news online, and more (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
Local business people can now go online to submit news about their company or staff members for publication in the Herald Tribune Business Weekly section that comes out Mondays. Just go to www.heraldtribune.com businessweekly and click on the appropriate department Grand Openings, Business People, Real Estate People or Good Deeds...



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