WestJet was founded in 1996 by four Calgary entrepreneurs who saw an opportunity to provide low fare air travel across western Canada. By researching other successful airlines in North America - and in particular low-cost carriers from throughout the continent - the team followed the primary examples of Southwest Airlines and Morris Air and determined that a similar concept could be successful in western Canada. Westjet has flights to Vancouver, Montreal, Ottawa and several other North American destinations.

Flight bookings are made on their website at WestJet The airline operates a fleet of Boeing aircraft featuring new Next-Generation 737 aircraft with leather seats and plenty of legroom. It consists exclusively of Boeing 737s, taking a cue from the successful single operating type model pioneered by Southwest Airlines. By year end 2005, the operating fleet will consist of 56 aircraft. The first deliveries of 737-600 and 737-800 aircraft began in 2005.

Transborder service to the USA commenced in the fall of 2004 to the cities of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Phoenix, Fort Lauderdale, Tampa, and Orlando. Service to Palm Springs began in January 2005. WestJet is publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol WJA.

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Citalia prides itself on its ability to be flexible and accommodating to every customer’s needs. Even if a customer needs to take frequent short vacations, Citalia is able to meet with their requirements with flexible prices that are dependent on how long the customer wishes to stay and their desired travel dates.

With Citalia’s flexibility comes the customer’s ability to create the holiday that they want and the privilege to choose from a variety of accommodation in hotels and deluxe properties. Even if a customer chooses a brochure holiday package, they can tailor its itinerary. Flights are provided by reputable airlines like Meridiana, British Airways, Air France, Alitalia, and British Midlands, or customers can choose to travel by train, self-drive, ride a ferry, or hire a car.

Citalia has been a trusted name when it comes to Italian holidays for more than 80 years. It has the experience and knowledge to provide the best services, care, security, and travel itineraries to its various clients who wish to take vacations in Italy at destinations such as Rome, Tuscany, the Amalfi Coast, Sardinia, Venice, Lake Garda, and Sorrento. Currently, a customer can enjoy a 5% discounts by booking online. Citalia’s Concierge Service is available all the time for any inquiries, assistance, and advice.

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Hamburg Airport
The Hamburg airport is airport is located 8km (5 miles) north of the city and served by a transfer service that leaves every 15 minutes from 0600-2330 and taxis (around 25 Euros). All the major car hire companies have desks in the terminal. See EasyCar.com for the best deals on Rental cars in Hamburg.

Sightseeing Highlights
With its centuries long procession of sailors pouring out of schooners, destroyers, tankers and frigates it’s hardly surprising that Hamburg is home to the Disneyland of red light districts: Huge in scale, creative minds coming up with a new spin on the central theme all the time and a tourist attraction in its own right. It’s in the St Pauli district (ironically named for the celibate apostle) with the Reeperbahn its main street and cranks up in the late afternoon when up to 40,000 people come to cruise its bars, sex clubs, eateries, shows and cafes. Once a sleazy, crime-ridden ghetto, like Times Square it’s been largely sanitised, with the hookers almost an exotic add-on amongst the neon, boisterous crowds and carnival atmosphere.

The Port of Hamburg makes up 12% of the entire city and while a series of wharves and docks is not a usual tourist destination the history and scale of this one makes it worth a look. You can get a good view of of the sprawling complex at the Stingfang stone balcony above the Landungsbrucken U/S Bahn stop or take a cruise to view the harbour at sea level. Other maritime sights include the museum aboard the Rickmer Rickmers an 1896 windjammer and the immigration and shipping exhibits on the newer and larger vessel, Cap Son Diego.

Although not in the same league as Berlin’s showpiece civic museums, Hamburg has an interesting collection. The best include: The Kunsthalle for art from the middle ages to the 20th Century (Klee, Munch, Kokoschka) as well as a series of 19th Century Germa paintings; The Galerie der Gegenwart for modern pieces (Baselitz, Richter Koons, Hockney). The Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe (Arts and Crafts Museum) with a huge collection of everything from jewellery, porcelain, musical instruments and sculpture to posters, interior and graphic design and furniture. The Museum fur Volkerkunde (Museum of Ethnology) with objects and displays such as masks, sculptures, canoes, costumes and musical instruments from Africa, Asia and the South Pacific. The Museum der Arbeit (Museum of Work) focussing on the working environment that has evolved in and around Hamburg.

One of the city’s most idiosyncratic features blossoms for a few hours every Sunday morning and then with its frenetic energy expended lies dormant for the rest of the week. The attraction? The Fischmarket in St Pauli which starts around 5:00am (7:00am Oct-Mar) on the banks of the Elbe just south of the Reeperbahn. Of course, its myriad stalls offer all kinds of seafood - prawns, fish fillets, eels and shelfish but also all manner of flora, clothes, fruit and vegetables and hot snacks for the early risers or late finishers still reeking of beer looking for a bratwurst and roll to soak up some of the night’s excesses. The whole atmosphere is enlivened by the cheeky patter of the spruikers hawking their wares or just flirting with the passers by with a wink and a theatrical leer. Live music pumps from the nearby Fischauktionshalle (Fish Auction Hall) where the audience chorus mixes with the pungent aroma of beer and sausage to fill the senses. Around 10:00am it’s all over for another week and the debris is swept up and the city relaxes into its Sunday before the working week begins again.

In 2005, Singapore Airlines unveiled the slogan “First to fly the A380 - experience the difference in 2006″, to promote itself as the world’s first airline to take delivery of the A380-800 double-decker super jumbo, which was expected to occur in the 2nd quarter of 2006 but has since been pushed back to later in the year. Singapore Airlines was the first airline to offer free headsets and drinks. Its reputation for service quality has made it the world’s most awarded airline to date. Singapore Airlines has an in-flight entertainment system, KrisWorld, which screens the latest movies and includes Nintendo games. Each seat has it own personal television. Krisworld has recently been upgraded in all classes to feature On-demand video and audio, where each user can select any particular film or television programme from the considerably large in-flight library at any time, and can pause, rewind and fast forward through it from their in seat video controller and personal screen.

Singapore Airlines has been around for 60 years and can trace its roots back to when a Malayan Airways aircraft left Singapore’s Kalang Airport en route to Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh and Penang on 1 May 1947. This thrice-weekly jaunt is how the airline got its wings, acquired more aircraft and subsequently growing to become one of the biggest and most respected airlines in the world. The carrier has gone through a few names to get to the simple moniker of Singapore Airlines. Having begun operations under the title of Malayan Airways Limited Airspeed Consul, when the federation of Malaysia was born on 16 September 1963, the airline was renamed Malaysian Airways Limited. Three years later, to include the city-state of Singapore, the name was again changed to Malaysia-Singapore Airlines.

Up until this point, the airline used a variety of aircraft for its flights. There were Fokker F27s, Vickers Viscount and a DC-4 Skymaster among other aircraft. In 1972, when the company split into two separate entities - Singapore Airlines and the Malaysian Airline System, Singapore Airlines took advantage of the situation and began to purchase Boeing planes. The new face of Singapore Airlines was that of modernity and a fleet of Boeing 747 jets was acquired and a new freight terminal and hangar for the 747s was constructed.

Singapore likes its planes big. In the 1980s, Singapore Airlines became the first airline in the world to use an Airbus A300 Superbus, and also used Boeing 747-300 and B757s. The next decade saw more ambitious purchases of behemoth aircraft and by 2000, with the order of 19 A380s from Airbus, the airline now has one of the largest and most modern fleets in the world. Anyone who has taken a flight with Singapore Airlines knows that there is no corners cut when it comes to service. Whether you’re first class or economy, the in-flight entertainment system is superb and will pass the time of any long-haul flight with ease. The airline boasts decent food and free drinks as well. Singapore Airlines was actually the first airline to start a free drinks service.

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A gleaming portal between east and west, Singapore polarises opinion. Praised as a clean, safe, efficient multi-cultural metropolis or derided as a sterile, paternalistic, monotonous temple to mammon. Well, it’s your choice to see it as one or the other - Singapore doesn’t really mind, as long as you spend up big in the city’s emporiums (and don’t chew gum while you’re at it). The city rose from the ashes of World War II - a corrupt, mosquito-ridden colonial outpost eking a living as a trading centre by virtue of its strategic position at the centre of S-E Asia and its natural port.

Changi International Airport
The city is served by Changi Airport (IATA: SIN) is the major aviation hub in South East Asia. It is located in Changi, approximately 20 km (12 miles) northeast of the centre of Singapore. Operated by the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS), Changi Airport is the home base of Singapore Airlines and is served by 78 other airlines. The airport hosts roughly four thousand flights per week to 177 cities around the world.

Sightseeing Highlights
Since then it has morphed into a wealthy, modern city-state that takes pride in its achievements and doesn’t care if it doesn’t meet western stereotypes of the inscrutable orient.So why visit it? Well you probably wouldn’t if you’re a twenty-something backpacker with a thirst for adventure and a taste for Asian mystique. But if you want a secure air-lock between back-home familiarity and a gentle oriental breeze then Singapore is a great way to acclimatise yourself to the rest of the region.
So, what to do? Singapore provides you with lots to see and do on an island just 42km wide by 23 km long. It all starts at the modern shopping mall that doubles as Changi Airport. A quick ride into town sees you at Singapore’s nerve-centre, Orchard Rd. The fruit trees have long gone, replaced with a wall-to-wall strip of department stores, malls, food courts, coffee shops, hotels and restaurants. Peak times will see you part of the thick but smoothly flowing stream of Singaporeans - an espresso mix of ethnic Chinese, Malays and Indians with a shot of steamed milk in the form of European expats and tourists. There are enough “highlight” spots to keep you on the go for a few days before you plunge into the exotica of Asia proper or scamper back to the familiarity of the west.

Singapore Zoo - Perhaps the best tropical zoo in the world, Singapore’s is more a taste of Eden where the visitor feels more a natural part of the environment rather than a consumer in an animal shopping mall. Spend an afternoon at the zoo, have some dinner, then at 7:30pm head for the Night Safari - a unique wildlife park given over specifically to nocturnal creatures such as leopards, tigers, bats and hippos.

The city has four or five museums worth a few hours apiece. There are two Asian Civilizations Museums known (efficiently enough) as One and Two. One is in the museum district at the southern end of Orchard Rd. It houses a range of artefacts and relics from the ancestors of Singapore’s ethnic cultures including textiles, lacquerware, jewellery, porcelain and jade. Two is on the Singapore River and has a series of themed galleries showing highlights from the region’s key cultures - Chinese, Islamic, Malay, Indian, Indonesian, Filipino etc. The Art Museum has a collection of paintings, sculpture and installations with a focus on Asian artists supplemented by travelling exhibitions from the US and Europe. The Singapore History Museum has a collection that focuses on the history of the city itself. It includes dioramas of key events in its evolution from Raffles’ landing to parliamentary independence.

Raffles
As London has The Ritz and New York the Waldorf-Astoria, Singapore’s grand, history-infused hotel is Raffles. More a secular cathedral to the faded glories of colonial grandeur, it is much, much more than just a place to stay. Home to fine restaurants, a culinary school, souvenir shops, a deli, cafes, a bakery and even its own museum. The casual visitor can soak up the atmosphere for the price of a Singapore Sling in the Long Bar or take high tea in the Tiffin Room.
ChijmesDiagonally opposite Raffles is a unique city block called Chijmes. Dominated by a glorious needle-spired chapel, once a convent, it is now a collection of hip restaurants, exhibition spaces and art and craft shops. Wander in for a peek during the afternoon and it will entice you to linger through the evening and into the night as the clubs start to fill with energised locals and the music of the region’s ubiquitous Filipino pop bands.

Sentosa
As Singapore is to the Malay Peninsula, so Sentosa is to Singapore: a small island off its southern tip. You can get there by ferry, over a causeway or, best of all, a cable car that affords a breathtaking view of the city and its lifeblood - the wharves and docks that are in perpetual motion. Sentosa has been developed into a daytrippers’ diversion replete with an aquarium, butterfly park, resort hotels, a diorama museum and a volcano show. It also has easily accessible beaches (though the sight of dozens of oil and cargo ships just offshore might make think twice before taking a dip).

“Little” Singapores
In an echo of its ethnically-ghettoed past Singapore has a well-preserved Chinatown, Little India and Old Malaya. The former, with its narrow warrens of streets and shophouses filled with cafes bars, shops and temples, gives you a sense of what life was like for Chinese coolies. But don’t glance up or your reverie will be popped by the skyscrapers of the city’s financial district a stone’s throw away. Highlights of Little India include an arcade of the same name with shops selling saris, Hindu religious paraphernalia, Ayurvedic medicines and Indian sweets and snacks; several Hindu temples; and the Tekka Centre markets with a bewildering array of spices, cooked food and household essentials. Kampong Glam is the centre of Muslim Singapore. Arab Street is full of shops selling cane & rattan goods, leather goods and Islamic religious effects; Istana Kampong Glam is the old sultan’s palace currently being redeveloped but worth a look from outside; and Sultan Mosque is a grand piece of Arabesque architecture.

Botanic Gardens
A verdant oasis that serves as the city’s lungs, the Botanic Gardens providesa respite from the grime and breakneck pace just a few streets away. It’s easy to become entranced by the lakes, waterfalls and landscaped fountains set amongst a mix of manicured lawns, primal jungle and orchid stands. The Gardens are complemented by a restaurant, a concert stage set on an island and a well-equipped visitors’ centre.

The Quays
Singapore makes good use of its river and there are two strips in particular where you can choose from a plethora of bars and restaurants. Boat Quay is closer to the bay and is lined with waterfront eateries of every description. Not sure what you might get? Don’t worry; there are full colour photos of most dishes on the menu and touts eager to extol the virtues of their particular cuisine. For the curious, the famous Harry’s Bar is at one end of the Quay where you can down an ale at the place where Nick Leeson, lived it up before he brought down Barings. Clark Quay is a mile or so upriver and while deserted during the day, comes alive when the sun goes down and the revellers come out. The usual range of drinking outlets is complemented by a micro-brewery and a gaggle of food stalls known collectively as the Satay Club (guess what the speciality is?).

Hawker Markets
Renowned for its range of and passion for food, a trip to Singapore would be missing something if you didn’t plunge into its communal kitchen-cum-dining-rooms - the hawker food markets. Once just places wherever mobile carts congregated, many (but not all) are now permanent fixtures replete with refrigerators, plumbing and regular health inspections. Great just to wander around for their colour, energy and sense of theatre, you can browse the displays of seafood, the satay braziers or the fruit juice stalls before settling on something that takes your fancy. It will invariably be prepared fresh to order, lip-smacking good and inexpensive. In walking distance of (or a short cab trip from) Orchard Rd, try Newton Circus Food Centre but there are lots of others around the city.

The Colonial Core
For those interested in neo-classical, colonial architecture there is a portfolio of historic artefacts that stand as a forlorn echo of England’s stamp of authority on its far-flung possessions. They are all clustered around Raffle’s landing site on a bend in the Singapore River and include the Supreme Court, Old Parliament House, the City Hall and the Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall. It can be vaguely satisfying to stroll around the district, admire the British appropriation of the stylistic ideas of ancient Greece and Rome and reflect on the transience of all once invincible empires.

Brussels Airlines offers excellent choices for low-cost and flexible one-way trips from the UK to Brussels and to 50 other destinations in Europe. As the leading airline company that flies from the UK to Belgium, it aims to provide customers with services that are reliable, safe and friendly.

A new airline, Brussels Airlines was established on the 7th of November 2006 as a result of the merger between Virgin Expres – one of the first low cost European airlines - and SN Brussels Airlines - the biggest Belgian airline that offered full service to its passengers. Both airlines were reputed for their reliability, punctuality, and for their low cost flights. Brussels Airlines aims to continue to live by those criteria.

With their new name, the airline embarked its inaugural flight on the 25th of March the following year. Although Brussels Airlines is relatively new to the industry, its accumulated knowledge and experience in aviation in the new era has helped to earn it the trust of its customers. Along with its team of crew members, the airline takes pride in its respect to everyone working and contributing to the reputation and performance of the company. In order to achieve this, Brussels Airlines has established core its brand values that they are continuing to uphold.

Brussels Airlines puts itself in its customer’s shoes while focusing on things that can make a difference. They do this to be able to deliver the best value for their customer’s money. The airline is also takes pride in meeting the requirements of highly discerning customers and those with special requirements.

Today, Brussels Airlines flies a variety of different aircraft that depend on the destination and the length of the flight within the American, Europaen, and African continents. Every aeroplane is equipped with leather seats that are comfortable along with all the mod-cons its customers could desire. Brussels Airlines is currently offering long-haul and medium-haul flights daily to Brussels, Helsinki, , Moscow, Tel Aviv, several destinations in Africa. Its key departure points in the UK are at London Gatwick, Manchester, Birmingham, London Heathrow, Newcastle, and Bristol.

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Depending on the customer’s needs, the hotels and resorts are generally aimed at families as well as couples. Blau Hotels & Resorts in the Caribbean provide all-inclusive board that offers wide-ranging services, sport activities, entertainment activities, meals, international and local alcoholic drinks, soft drinks, and juices. Central to the Blau Hotels & Resorts goal is to ensure that customers are satisfied by giving them great customer service, with highly-efficient staff members.

As part of their promotions, golf discounts amount to 24% in savings and early bookings get 10% discounts. Wedding packages for Natura Park at $250 for two, free vouchers for Blau Punta Reina Club, and romantic getaway privileges for Blau PortoPetro are available. For V.I.P services, Blau Costa Verde offers promo packs that $15 a day per person. On the whole, depending on the Blau Hotel or Resort booked, customers can enjoy different services and facilities; rooms; meal offerings, health and beauty options, sports activities, business options, and surroundings. Bookings may be made through Blau Hotels & Resorts web site.

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Customers who book online also enjoy additional savings of £125 per person, which apply to overall package costs. Adriatic cruises, Dalmations cruises, and Black Sea cruises are also available. All prices include non-optional extras such as duty charges for passengers and fuel supplements. Balkan Holidays earned a place in the Sunday Times Virgin Atlantic Fastrack 100 which lists the fastest growing privately-owned companies in Britain in 2004. Balkan Holidays also won the British Travel Awards for Best Tour Operator to Other European Destinations in 2005 as well as the BMI Travel Award for Best Tour Operator to Central and Eastern Europe.

For their customer’s peace of mind, Balkan Holidays is a fully bonded member of ABTA (Association of British Travel Agents) as well as an accredited agent under the IATA (International Air Transport Association). All flights issued by the company also have ATOL (Air Travel Organizer’s License) protection as issued by the Civil Aviation Authority. The company is registered as Balkan Holidays Ltd in Wales and England.

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To provide customers with travel extras, Avro partnered with the following companies: Sixt (for car hire services), HolidayTaxis.Com (for taxi hire services), BCP (for airport parking), Lounge Pass (for airport lounges), FHR (for airport hotels), and Somewhere2Stay.Com (for holiday accommodations). Avro has also teamed up with West End producers so customers can enjoy discounts on more than 60 plays, musicals, and shows in London. All flight prices stated in Avro’s web site are transparent and include all non-optional extras such as APD and fuel supplements. Prices, quoted however, are only guaranteed when bookings are confirmed.

Popular destinations that Avro flies to include Funchal, Malaga, Dubrovnik, Mahon, Heraklion, Arrecife, Paphos, Sharm El Sheikh, Dalaman, Palma, Fuerteventura, GoaCancun, Faro, and Ibiza.

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In addition to car hire rentals, Auto Europe also offers a number of travel extras such as airport parking, airport lounges, airport hotels, satellite navigation and a Map 24 route planner. Airport parking services can cost between £29 and £49 each week, cheaper than normal gate prices. As for airport lounges, customers can avail of them for as low as £13.50 each person, a small price to pay to relax while waiting for their next flight. Airport hotels offers savings of up to 60% off when bookings are made online and in advance. The route planner is available free of charge to all Auto Europe customers.

Some Auto Europe locations include: Australia, Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, England, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Namibia, Netherlands, Scotland, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Canada, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Latvia, Lithuania, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and the United States.

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