Argophilia

Travel news you want to read.

  • Greece
  • Crete
  • Eastern Europe
  • Travel Technology
  • World
    • Airlines
    • Hotels

air fares

Ryanair Smashes Weekly Bookings Record

2018-01-15 by Argophilia Travel News

Ryanair today announced having smashed its weekly bookings record, taking over 3 million bookings in a single week

Tags: air fares, airline, airline news, airlines, budget airlines, Ryanair

Malev Grounding Leads to Air Fare Hikes

2012-02-25 by Mike Wheatley

Malev bankruptcy

Following the recent news of Hungarian national carrier Malev’s bankruptcy, air passengers to Southeast Europe are facing fewer choices combined with increased fares, according to travel agents in the region.

Tags: air fares, Budapest Airport, European Consumer Organization, Lufthansa, Malev, Malev airlines, Malev bankruptcy, Malev collapse, Ryanair, Southeast Europe

Sabre and South African Airways Deals

2011-07-12 by Liliana Steffens

South African Airlines landing page

South African Airways and Sabre Travel Network have just penned a multi-year deal for Sabre to distribute South African’s fares across Sabre’s vast global network.

Tags: Africa Travel, African airlines, air fares, air travel, Sabre, Sabre travel, Sabre Travel Network, South Africa travel, South African Airlways, travel distribution

Vayant Travel Tech and 2e Systems Enhance airBaltic

2011-06-25 by Phil Butler

2e systems clients

In news from Frankfurt today, Vayant Travel Technologies announced a partnership with 2e Systems for providing solutions for airBaltic. According to the news, 2e’s booking engine, along with Vayant’s Microproducts – FareList, TaxQuote, and IntelliPricer, will provide a “new breed” of tech solutions for airlines.

Tags: 2e Systems, air fares, airBaltic, airlines, Baltic airlines, Bookings, FareList, HitchHiker, IntelliPricer, Microproducts, TaxQuote, travel search, travel technologies, Vayant Travel Technologies

Singapore Airlines and Spain Tourism Board Buddy Up

2011-06-25 by Delia Gavrilescu

First class all the way with Singapore Airlines

In world airline news, leading edge air carrier Asia’s Singapore Airlines has just signed memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Spain’s Tourism Board. The agreement further extends what has already become an apparent initiative by the airline to not only broaden B2B connections, but to engage overall the world travel market.

Tags: air carriers, air fares, Asian airlines, I Need Spain, IMF, Singapore Airlines, Spain economy, Spain tourism, Spain Tourism Board, Spain travel, Spain travel carriers

Southwest Airlines Still the Best in Its Class

2011-06-23 by Liliana Steffens

Celebrating 40 Years Of Service With $40 Fares

This year, Southwest Airlines celebrates it 40th birthday with significant discounts and deals for all its flights.

Tags: air fares, flight deals, massive discounts, Southwest Airlines

US Government Approves Google-ITA Deal

2011-04-11 by Tavis J. Hampton

US Department of Justice

The Department of Justice has approved a $700 million deal that will see Google acquire ITA Software, a travel technology company.  The DoJ released a detailed ruling outlining the approval, along with some restrictions. As part of the deal, Google must license QPX software from ITA to airfare websites under “commercially reasonable terms”, continue to […]

Tags: air fares, airfare websites, BIng, Department of Justice, DoJ, Google, InstaSearch, ITA, QPX software, travel search engine, U.S.

British Airways Introduces TripSeeker, Flight Search Tool

2011-04-08 by Tavis J. Hampton

TripSeeker British Airways

British Airways has released the latest version of TripSeeker (formerly WorldExplorer), its new flight search tool.  With it travelers can search for the best flights and destinations all from ba.com. The new tool is completely Flash-based (sorry iPad users), and has an interactive interface allowing you to click anywhere on the world map where BA […]

Tags: activities, air fares, British Airways, destination guide, flight search tool, Google Maps, travel class, TripSeeker, WorldExplorer

Higher Airfares from American Airlines

2011-03-11 by Mihaela Lica Butler

American Airlines

American Airlines has bumped up domestic fares by $10 per round trip, and raised round-trip fares to Canada and Hawaii by $21, atop other price increases they made last week.

Tags: air fares, American Airlines, domestic fares, international air fares

Online Travel Warfare To End Soon

2011-02-19 by Phil Butler

Google evil versus collective evil

The war in online travel over basically who gets what & when continues this week with Delta Airlines snatching seats from Rick Seaney’s FareCompare, American Airlines going hog wild trying to engage on their own, and Google outlining (see Matt Cutts video below) how they can manually crucify websites for SPAM. Meanwhile travelers just want some price break justice.

Tags: air fares, American Airlines, BIng, Expedia, FaceCompare, Google, Google algorithms, ITA, Kayak, Matt Cutts, Microsoft, MS Travel, online bookings, Orbitz, Rick Seaney, social web, SPAM, Tim O'Reilly, TripAdvisor, Web 2.0, web transparency

Getting There and Carried Away Airlines

2011-01-05 by Phil Butler

The future of air travel

The recent war between online travel agents and major airlines heats up still more. But for the travel consumer, how will all this soap opera posturing effect prices and value? The answer is fairly simple, prices will go up, and services will go down. The trend to cut everything from jet fuel to aspirin is in place, and only a paradigm shift can alter that. Comparison pricing is the only consumer weapon for value. Expedia, Google, American Airlines, the customer, what is best for business only the customer can say.

Tags: air fares, air travel, American Airlines, business travel, Expedia, fare wars, Getting There, Google, Google ITA, ITA, Jet Blue, Joe Brancatelli, Orbitz, OTA's, Portfolio.com, price war, Southwest

What Ryanair Knows About Lithuania

2010-11-10 by Phil Butler

Trakai Castle

Ryanair apparently knows something other airlines do not. With traffic to and from destinations like Lithuania growing exponentially, Ryanair’s overall strategy to help grow tourism seems to be paying off. Lithuania as an emerging economy has pretty much the same strategy with perhaps the lowest corporate tax rate in Europe. For travelers all this news spells “deal” basically.

Tags: air fares, Eastern Europe, Estonia, Europe flights, Laslo Thomas, Latvia, Lithuania, Lithuania economy, Lithuania flights, Lithuania travel, rural tourism, Ryanair, tourism, Vilnius travel, Vilnus




PAPERWORLD

Sissi Archaeological Project

Sissi Excavation

Featured Stories

Road to Sitia

Crete’s 2022 Summer: Already Burning With Fun

Saffron Goddess

What If the Secrets of Keftiu Could Rescue Humanity’s Future?

Mari Lwyd

Odd Christmas Traditions Around the World

EyeWide

This Really Is – Incredible Crete

Stories of Interest

Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2

Greece Reports 5,588 New Coronavirus Cases in Past 24 Hours

2022-05-25 By Argophilia Travel News

Greek officials confirmed (PDF) 5,588 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours. Santorini case incidences top 300 per 100k people.

Tourism Minister Kikilias

Greece’s Kikilias Expects 900,000 Serbian Tourists This Year

2022-05-22 By Phil Butler

As many as 900,000 tourists from Serbia are expected to visit Greece this year, according to Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias. Recently, Kikilias was is in Belgrade for a series of meetings aimed at promoting Greece’s tourism product. The tourism minister spoke about how that, even despite the multiple crises that have arisen in the current […]

More Eastern Europe travel news

  • Authors
  • Contributors
  • Submit Press Release
  • Contact
  • Privacy Policy

COPYRIGHT © 2022 · ARGOPHILIA TRAVEL NEWS