In about two months, Armani Hotels will open its first hotel located in the world’s tallest building. Armani Hotel Dubai, designed by Giorgio Armani, opens on 18 March. The hotel is built in the newly opened Burj Khalifa, formerly known as Burj Dubai, aims to become the most exclusive hotel in Dubai even eclipsing Burj Al Arab and the mighty Atlantis.
The hotel is the first in a series of branded Armani Hotels & Resorts. Sister hotels are also going to open in Milan, Marrakech and in the Egyptian Marassi. Over the next ten years Armani hotels is to open up in New York, Shanghai, Tokyo and London.
At the moment Turkish Airlines has a good deal for flight tickets between Stockholm and Hong Kong during the beginning of 2010. Price is approximately 3900 SEK / 550 USD. The booking class is G.
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The luxury fashion house Louis Vuitton has introduced its exclusive collection in launching its latest Maison at One Central Macau. The new premium shopping location will feature the first-in-the-city ready-to-wear fashion accessories. However, on top of the launches is the new special-order Casino Trunk, which will be exclusively pre-launched at One Central Maison for the opening.
Louis Vuitton Casino Trunk
This prime location best reflects its proximity to some of the most glamorous gaming and hospitality / resort establishments, the new Maison, the first in the city carrying ready-to-wear, welcomes customers with ultimate luxury and exclusivity.
Richard Branson’s new spaceship that will take the first tourists into space on a larger scale was presented in the Mojave desert at the beginning of this week.
The 300 prospective passengers who have paid an advance of about $20000 (total cost is about $200000) for their tickets were there along with press from around the world.
The first tourists are going to be sent into space in 2011. Before that happens, the new spaceship called Spaceship Two, is going to be tested on the space base currently being built in New Mexico. The 18 meter long space ship is launched into the sky by piggybacking on top of another aircraft. At just over 18 000 meters the space capsule is shot into space.
The period of weightlessness will be about 10 minutes. During this short period the seatbelts are taken off and the passengers can float freely in the air and look out through the large windows in the spaceship.
Virgin Galactic has chosen Kiruna as its European launch base, but it is not clear when space travel will be starting from there.
A strike broke out at Helsinki Vantaa airport after Finnair announced that they’re going to subcontract the ground support to contractors and give notice to 620 employees.
-”By creating solutions based on strategic alliances, we can transform fixed costs to variable costs and focus on Finnair’s core business” says CEO Lars Heinonen.
The tasks will move to companies Barona or Suomen Transval. Baggage handling is on temporary agency Barona, which is said to be the main reason for a utmarsch among employees on Monday.
The strike continued well into Tuesday morning, and occasional cancellations of flights did occur. Finnair therefore advices its passengers to travel without checking in baggage and to get to the airport on time.
If you are planning to stay 3 or more nights at a hotel in Las Vegas, this promotion code for Circus Circus Las Vegas could be for you. It basically gives you 15% off on the online rates.
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Skyteam member Delta Airlines offers distressed Japan Airlines one billion U.S. dollars in order to leave the Oneworld airline alliance in favour of Skyteam.
Skyteam group wants to save Japan Airlines, if they leave Oneworld and joins Skyteam instead. Delta plans to open routes to Japan and would like to secure cooperation with a Japanese airline.
The offer from Skyteam consists of Skyteam buying shares of Japan Airlines for 500 million U.S. dollars and 300 million U.S. dollars would ensure that any losses the airline could make by switching alliances are covered. The airline would also get an injection of 200 million U.S. dollars and 20 million U.S. dollars to cover expenses incurred in connection with the change of alliance.
Airbus‘ new super jumbo is late once again. This time, it is for German airline Lufthansa, which will have to wait for their new aircraft.
Just a month ago, the airline hoped to get the 15 ordered aircrafts in March, but the planes are delayed. According to Bloomberg, Airbus have informed Lufthansa the delivery will not happen until the summer.
Lufthansa plans to use these planes between Frankfurt and New York.
Airbus was supposed to deliver 18 aircraft this year, but will only manage to deliver 13. During the next year 20 aircraft is to be delivered.
The deal is estimated to be worth 7 billion dollars and the airlines hope to finish it before the end of next year.
Spanish Iberia and British British Airways has signed a preliminary agreement to merge, Airwise writes. The merger creates the world’s third largest airline in terms of yield.
British Airways is to extend their service between the U.S. and Europe with Iberia flights to South America. The transport network is further strengthened by a planned alliance with American Airlines.
BA’s shareholders get 55 percent of the new company. Iberia’s chairman Antonio Vazquez is also chairman of the new company and BA chief executive Willie Walsh is CEO.
The merger follows Air France KLM‘s pattern. A holding company will be created and will own the two airlines. In the first five years, airlines have separate licenses, codes and trademarks and opposite base in London and Madrid.
It was Etihad Airways from the UAE who won the award for best airline at the World Travel Awards this year.
180,000 people in the travel industry had their say on which players are best in their respective niches.
The most prestigious prize in the aviation industry was taken by Etihad Airways, which became the first airline from the Middle East to win the title for best airline in the world. Etihad Airways also managed to take home the prize for best first class offering, making the airline take home two very prestigous prizes.
It was also Arabic for business travelers and best airport. This was considered to Qatar Airways and the airport in Dubai to. Easyjet won the award for best low cost airline.
Lufthansa won award for best airline in Europe. Europe’s best airport is considered to be in Zurich.