Travel News – Air France Flight 447, SouthWest Gets Pets, Titanic Survivor RIP, Valedictorian Zeppelin, Microsoft Bings
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Air France Flight 447 was lost in the ocean between Brazil and France this week.
Nuclear sub to join hunt for jet
A French nuclear submarine is being sent to help find an Air France plane which disappeared over the Atlantic. French Defence Minister Herve Morin said the submarine had sonar equipment that could help locate the airliner’s flight data recorders.
If you can’t think about going on vacation without fluffy (spot?) then SouthWest wants to get your business. They have a new policy to allow cats and dogs on flights.
Southwest Allows Pets
Q: What types of pets are allowed?
A: Southwest Airlines will only accept small cats and dogs in carriers that can be stowed under the Customer’s seat.
Q: How much will the Pet Fare be?
A: The Pet Fare will be $75 each way per pet carrier.
It is one thing to survive icebergs and shipwrecks, but old age gets us all eventually.
R.I.P. Millvina Dean, Titanic Survivor
The last survivor of the Titanic’s sinking has died at 97. Dean was just two months old when she was placed in one of the ship’s lifeboats with her mother and brother; she once said of her celebrity status: “Until the wreckage of the Titanic was found in 1985, nobody was interested in me. Who expects to become famous at that age?”
In addition to caps flying after graduation valedictorians may also be flying this year… if they live near Monterey.
Monterey County valedictorians fly free on Eureka
“High Honors” Flight seeing Tours allow class of 2009 high school Valedictorians to fly free on June 14 on half hour tours offered at 10 and 10:30 a.m. and the offer also allows all class of 2009 graduates to take a 1-hour flight seeing tour, for $99 when accompanied by a family member flying using a $375/person promotional fare; up to two additional family members may also fly with the graduate at the same limited-time $375/person rate.
So far I am not impressed so far with Microsoft’s Bing.
Microsoft Rolls Out Bing Travel
Microsoft on Thursday formally launched the travel section of its new Bing search engine.
In addition to search results, queries to Bing Travel yield direct links to tools that users can employ to book flights, hotel rooms, and other travel products. For instance, a search for “San Diego hotels” delivers property availability and pricing information.
When SouthWest’s unions returned the offer to management, do you think they got the rapping flight attendant to do it?
Southwest pilots reject new contract
Pilots at Southwest Airlines Co. have voted down a new contract that would have given them raises in the midst of a slump in the airline industry.
The vote was close, with less than 51% voting down the contract.
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