With Memorial Day in the rear view mirror comes the start of the summer travel season. People flying in and out of Palm Springs will have plenty of travel options this summer.
Pack your bags. It may be a summer to remember at Palm Springs International. Sure, it’s quieter here now than during our winter months, but airport administrators say people flying in and out of Palm Springs last summer set a new summer passenger record. This year we may see yet another record.
“Some of the new services, the Sacramento service with Horizon Air,” said airport spokesman Bryant Francis. “We’ve got extra service with United Express, extra flights to Salt Lake City with Delta Connection and the same number of flights to Phoenix on America West, but on larger airplanes. So we have extra seats on America West Express.”
The airlines added several flights to the board during the summer of 2003, but weren’t able to fill them. So they cut back last summer, which ended up being a record travel summer. So this year they’re adding more flights and expecting another record summer.
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IATA Director General Giovanni Bisignani said the group of 265 airlines would propose further deregulation at its annual meeting in Tokyo on Monday and Tuesday.
"We see too many inefficiencies ... we, the customers, are not any more ready to pay for their inefficiencies," he told a news conference.
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I enjoy registering my vehicles at the Auto Club because I always get to peruse their travel books while I wait in line.
The only problem is, the wait is never long enough to really get lost in my imaginary vacations.
But this week, I took the time to find out what those travel books suggest tourists do in the Coachella Valley for next weekend's big three-day holiday. I perused some travel books with sections about the desert and was surprised at what I found.
"California's Best-Loved Driving Tours" by Frommers isn't terribly up-to-date even though it says it was revised in 2005.
Its
India proposes separate deals on palm oil
INDIA has proposed separate trade deals on palm oil with top producers Malaysia and Indonesia, after talks with Asean for a free trade agreement (FTA) were stalled due to disagreements over tariffs for the commodity.
Indian Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath said the Asean-India FTA is an overall agreement and not just on palm oil.
We are quite happy to have a separate agreement on palm oil, he said at the sidelines of the Asean Economic Ministers related meetings in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.
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Standard & Poor's Equity Research reiterated a "hold" rating on Palm (nasdaq: PALM - news - people ) after the company reported strong fiscal first-quarter earnings.
S&P Equity Research said, "While 25% higher revenues met our estimate, upside came mainly from operating expenses and taxes that were lower than our model. Treo units rose 160% to 470,000 units on strong demand but, as was our concern, PDA units fell, off 22% on what we view as poor penetration in Europe."
Palm sees fiscal second-quarter revenue slightly below the research firm's model of $435 million to $440 million, but S&P Equity
Hot Springs - Scenic Hot Springs is adding to its natural beauty as it hosts the Miss Arkansas Pageant.
42- hopefuls were welcomed to the Spa City Convention Center Sunday to begin a week of activities leading up to next weekend's crowning.
Participants will be judged on interview, talent and physical fitness.
This will be the last week for Lacy Flemming's reign as Miss Arkansas. Flemming was the third runner up in the Miss America Pageant.
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