Can you answer an (online) travel request in less than a minute. Yes, you can.... but it will be wrong (probably)
Meta-search websites are great things and can be very helpful. As an agent, one knows a lot of wrinkles that can be actioned to get a fare for any journey that looks and feels right. A fare which represents good value for money (which is, I should add, NOT the same as "the cheapest" by a long chalk). Sometimes you do, however, exhaust your options and still, do not feel that what you have represents good value. Here, meta-search sites come in handy. They can guide you to options which you did not notice, they can help you to cover that glaringly obvious option that you managed to miss and can help your out-of-the-box thinking get out of the container that the boxes are stored within. Other t
As yet another airline that sought to fly the Atlantic bites the dust, one has to ask - why? The trail of attempted trans-Atlantic (indeed, just long-haul) failures is many and varied; as is some that just got caught in that maelstrom of me-too airlines. Too many seats chasing too few passengers. Freight was always (and still is) attractive. Indeed, transporting humans never really was a good idea and up until about 1930, was never really considered a worthwhile option. Humans need a lot more effort. You have to run a schedule, you need to look after people who have needs, you have to have cabin attendants and caterers, you need to tell people that you run and be able to sell the service, yo
