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Fri 04 Sep 2009 |
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Good site for cheap flights |
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We recently launched an awesome little tool on the iafrica.com travel site. It's a flights and travel booking engine powered by Flightsite. Without going into all the technical hooptedoodle (most of which I don't understand anyway) it allows you to tap into the airline databases that travel agents use, which means you get flight quotes without any mark-ups etc. Yes, there's a traveller support fee, but by and large you'll find the flights are as cheap, if not cheaper than other airline sites.
Big deal, I hear you say. Well, the real power of the tool is that it allows you to search across a number of airlines for your routing. So no going to three, four or five airline sites to see what each one has to offer. Plug in your origin and destination, set your dates and the engine will return the latest fares from all relevant airlines. Nifty, huh?
Take a turn over to http://iafrica.flightsite.co.za and try it for yourself... |
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Heading over to New York in October and started doing some research to find a few interesting angles.
Discovered this amazing volunteer group called Big Apple Greeter whose simple aim is to help tourists settle into New York.
Before you arrive you send an online request saying when you’re arriving, where you’re staying and what neighbourhood you’d like to get to know. From there the group will try and match you with a suitable 'Greeter'. These aren’t tour guides who will take you on an organised wander of the city (which most visitors do), these are just enthusiastic locals who love their neighbourhoods and are only too happy to show you their favourite places to eat, shop and play. They’ll also help you with the basics of getting around New York’s transport system.
Sounds like a fantastic program and I'm sure you'll hear more about it in articles when I get back.
Check out www.bigapplegreeter.org.
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Thu 23 Jul 2009 |
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Etihad coming to Cape Town |
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Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, announced this week that they will soon be launching flights to Cape Town.
Launching at the end of September ahead of the peak summer season, Etihad is hoping to attract a share of the expat market in Abu Dhabi, as well as the obvious European tourist trade and World Cup visitors. I flew the airline a year or so back and was extremely impressed. As with all Middle Eastern carriers the planes are brand-spanking-new, service is exceptional and on-board comfort is some of the best of all the (many!) airlines I've flown recently.
The Cape Town leg will be an extension of the Johannesburg route; stopping off in Joburg for an hour or two to allow passengers to disembark, before continuing on to Cape Town.
More airlines = more ways to explore the world. What's not to love! |
We're pretty sensitive to cultural differences here in South Africa (some would say too sensitive), but it was interesting to see that Australia has announced plans to stop tourists climbing Uluru, the giant red rock sacred to Aborigines and formerly known as Ayers Rock.
Officials say the move was partly due to safety reasons (30 tourists have died making the arduous climb), but also because of long-held complaints by the local Aboriginal community that it was degrading for one of their most hallowed sites.
Community spokesperson Vince Forrester said Aborigines had wanted the climb banned for over 20 years: "You can't go climb on top of the Vatican, you can't go climb on top of the Buddhist temples and so on and so forth". Fair point… |
I loved this story that popped up on the newswires on Friday...
A Canadian musician says he saw ground handlers from United Airlines deliberately mishandle his treasured Taylor acoustic guitar at Chicago's O'Hare airport as he and his band were heading off on tour.
After much back-and-forth with the airline – who refused to pay any compensation – he decided to take his revenge by writing a song and posting it on YouTube. Predictably, it's become an Internet hit and a public relations disaster for the airline.
Read more about Dave Carroll's "United Breaks Guitars" over here... |
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