All posts for the month October, 2009

Hotel prices fall due to recession

Hotel prices have fallen during the recession. Booking site, Hotel.info, has reviewed the prices of hotel rooms worldwide. The trend of falling prices during the financial crisis have certainly weakened slightly, but no clear recovery has yet been seen. In most places in Europe and the world the room rates are still well below last [...]

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Lufthansa to offer WiFi and cellular possibility in the air

German airline Lufthansa recently announced that they will soon begin offering both wireless LAN and cellular networks on it’s long distance flights between Europe and USA. On Monday, the airline Lufthansa announced that they plan to improve job opportunities for those who fly between Europe and America. The company will offer its passengers both wireless [...]

Long distance with Norwegian is a go

The airline Norwegian will start low cost flights to the USA, South America and Asia. Preferably as early as next year. If the demand is there, Norwegian will launch its first long-haul routes next year. Fifteen routes from Scandinavia to major cities in the U.S., Asia and South America are on the wish list, writes [...]

Finnair’s passenger traffic down

Finnair‘s passenger traffic plummeted by 13.7 percent in September, measured in RPK. Finnair flew 13.9 percent fewer passengers in September. Measured in RPK, revenue passenger kilometers, passenger traffic declined by 13.7 percent, writes the news agency Direkt according to Dagens Industri. Capacity decreased by 12.2 percent and passenger load factor by 1.3 percent to 76.6 [...]

SAS sells BMI to Lufthansa

SAS sells its entire stake in BMI to Lufthansa. SAS Group sells its 20 percent of the airline British Midland, BMI to the holding company LHBD. LBDH already owns 80 percent of the airline. LHBD on the other hand is owned 35 percent by Lufthansa. The price for the shares is approximately 19 million pounds. [...]