Travel News – Newsletter for March 4, 2010
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Travel Web sites say average spring break airfares up, but hotel rates down
Spring break travel: Airfares up, hotel rates down
NEW YORK – Average airfares for spring break are up from last year but hotel rates are down, according to data from Bing Travel and Travelocity.
Travelocity found average airfares are up 9 percent compared to last year, with the average domestic roundtrip flight at about $351, while hotel …. Source article : Travel Web sites say average spring break airfares up, but hotel rates down.
Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger, ‘Miracle on the Hudson’ pilot, retiring from US Airways
‘Miracle on the Hudson’ pilot retiring
NEW YORK – Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, who piloted a US Airways flight during its emergency water landing on the Hudson River in January of last year, is retiring.
Sullenberger, 59, joined US Airways’ predecessor airline in 1980. Until 2007, the mandatory retirement age was 60 for commercial pilots in the … Read more »»».