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NWA Expands FlyNow Option for Customers Making Same-Day Travel Changes

Northwest's New WorldClub Opens For Northwest Airlines and SkyTeam Customers at Tokyo's Narita International Airport

NWA Reaches New Tentative Agreement with its Flight Attendants

American Airlines: update regarding internal seat assignment fees

Delta Emerges From Bankruptcy Protection

Attention Delta Elite Frequent Flyers

Car rental firms moving with push by airport - Customers will soak up cost with $4 fee

Avis Offers Wi-Fi To Go

Rich Rooms

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Northwest's New WorldClub Opens For Northwest Airlines and SkyTeam Customers at Tokyo's Narita International Airport
Source: Northwest Airlines
Northwest Airlines opened a new WorldClub lounge for Northwest and SkyTeam customers at Narita International Airport as part of its ongoing efforts to enhance passengers’ travel experience. Click Here to continue.

NWA Reaches New Tentative Agreement with its Flight Attendants
Source: Northwest Airlines
Northwest Airlines said that it has reached a tentative contract agreement with its flight attendants, represented by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA).

“Over the past several days, we have engaged in many hours of intense negotiations with the AFA on a new collective bargaining agreement. We are pleased to have reached this tentative agreement, which would give our flight attendants a $182 million unsecured claim in the airline’s bankruptcy,” said Mike Becker, Northwest Airlines senior vice president-human resources and labor relations. Click Here to continue.

American Airlines: update regarding internal seat assignment fees
Beginning April 12th American Airlines Reservations Agents will begin charging a $15.00 for any seat assignment requests or changes that are called into them directly.

Delta Emerges From Bankruptcy Protection
Source: BCD Travel
As expected, Delta Air Lines emerged from bankruptcy protection after 19 months of restructuring. Delta anticipates that its debt at the end of 2007 will be less than half of what it was on June 30, 2005 ($16.9 billion). Delta plans on returning to the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday of this week.

Attention Delta Elite Frequent Flyers
Delta has made an enhancement to their elite upgrade process that will automatically place Elite travelers on the Delta upgrade queue immediately after ticketing. Formerly this was a manual process we handled in house. Your upgrade will still be based on your elite status level, the class of service booked, and as always, availability.
If for some reason you do not wish to be upgraded, please let us know. We will call Delta and have them block your upgrade for this exact record.
 

Exceptional Customer Service

Rosie Gattas

Dear Ms. Gattas,
I wanted to personally thank you for your assistance in "getting me home" from San Diego, California, Friday, February 16, 2007.

My assistant, Donna Hightower, told me how instrumental you were in making the arrangements and I cannot tell you how much this meant to me and my family.

In these days when customer service seems to have vanished from the face of the earth, it is refreshing to find someone of your caliber who is willing to go above and beyond in assisting your customer; especially with the outstanding results you provided.

A & I Travel is fortunate to have you as one of their employees.

Best regards,
Cary P. Hagan, Wright Medical Technology, Inc.
 

Avis Offers Wi-Fi To Go
Source: T & E Magazine
Avis Rent A Car now offers portable wireless Internet access. The Autonet Mobile Service system can be rented for $10.95 per day and is compatible with all Wi-Fi enabled devices. The company stresses that these systems should not be used while driving, but can be taken into a hotel or other facility. The units are available at Avis locations in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, the New York City metro area, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C.
 

Rich Rooms
Source: T & E Magazine
According to a survey by the Hogg Robinson Group, these cities had the highest average hotel room rates (in U.S. dollars) in 2006:

1. Moscow $ 434	5. Hong Kong $305
2. New York City $343	6. Milan, Italy $299
3. Bangalore, India $328	7. Dubai, United Arab Emirates $295
4. Paris $311	8. London $289

Road Warriors
Source: T & E Magazine
Athletic-Minded Traveler (www.athleticmindedtraveler.com), a company that helps travelers maintain fitness on the road, claims the following properties have the best hotel gyms in the United States.

1. The Houstonian Hotel, Club & Spa, Houston
2. Park Hyatt Philadelphia at the Bellevue
3. Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco
4. Embassy Suites Hotel Chicago - Downtown/Lakefront
5. The Venetian, Las Vegas
 

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