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Bruges Ice Festival

Published on 08/12/2009 By admin

Bruges Ice Festival is just an hour’s train ride from Brussels and this year’s Ice Age theme means ice sculptors have been busy creating sabre-toothed tigers and nut-gathering rodents in this beautiful village complete with pub and funfair.  The display will remain open until 10th January 2010.

8 things an Airline would never tell you!

Published on 16/09/2009 By admin

Insiders expose little-known facts the industry would rather you didn’t think about. “Airport luggage scales often lie.” It’s bad enough that the airlines charge a fee for overweight luggage, varying from $39 to $300 per bag industrywide. But it’s galling that they may also hit you with the fee by mistake. At JFK last November, [...]

SkyEurope files for bankruptcy

Published on 01/09/2009 By admin

Flights of the Bratislava-based budget carrier are suspended with immediate effect after it airline filed for bankruptcy overnight. Vienna – Shares in low-cost carrier SkyEurope were suspended from trading on the Vienna stock exchange on Tuesday after the troubled airline filed for bankruptcy overnight. Trading was suspended “until further notice” from the opening bell on [...]