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Bid for cheap upgrades?
A few days before my short flight on US Airways from Charlotte to Baltimore last fall, US Airways sent an email asking if I'd like to upgrade to first class for $90 at the airport, if a seat was still available. I didn't take the US Airways offer -- $90 seemed like a stiff price for a flight of just an hour -- but I might have been tempted on a longer flight. US Airways and a few others are ...
Top spots for 2012
Ahead of its annual Travel Expo in centres around New Zealand, Flight Centre has picked its top destinations for Kiwis to travel to during 2012.
More Australians Jetting Abroad to Asia, Say Online Travel Agency, Jetabroad
SYDNEY, February 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ ---Jetabroad say increasing numbers of international passengers travelled from Melbourne and Sydney airports to Asia in 2011-Australia's leading online travel agency, ...
The world’s top 10 retirement havens
These 10 countries offer retirees a low cost of living and cheap real estate, for starters. But you might be surprised just how many other retirement benefits you are afforded at these overseas destinations....
Airlines quietly allow travelers to bid for better seats
Afew days before my short flight on US Airways from Charlotte to Baltimore last fall, US Airways sent an email asking if I’d like to upgrade to first class for $90 at the airport, if a seat was still available.
Burma back on the map: Tourism returns to South-east Asia’s forbidden land
I arrived in Yangon – or Rangoon, as the British knew Burma's old capital – half expecting not to make it beyond the airport. I'd heard stories about interrogated journalists and swarms of all-seeing secret police. I had a tourist visa and had listed my profession as "management" but my bag contained a laptop and note pads. A web search of my name would expose me in a second. And I'm a hopeless ...
Pay just $99 for flights to Asia
AN airfare war is set to break out on flights to Asia following the announcement that budget carrier AirAsia X will begin flying from Sydney to Malaysia.