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Final flight of airberlin and what happens next

As announced, airberlin seized operations when the final flight, AB6210 landed on October 27th at 22:45 after a 1h flight from Munich, welcomed by airline staff with fanfare. The same day, after lengthy negotiations, easyjet announced that they’d buy a number of planes and slots, focused on the Berlin hub, and will accept existing airberlin tickets!

A mid-scale hotel brand of greatly varying quality: Ramada Hotels by Wyndham

Ramada is the third largest brand of Wyndham Worldwide, with 866 hotels worldwide and more than half of the rooms in Europe and Asia! Hotels in the US and the rest of the world are operated by two different companies, use different sub-brands and follow different standards, resulting in different experiences depending on the location

Malaysian comfort food – Madam Kwan’s, Kuala Lumpur

Whenever I’m in Kuala Lumpur, my favorite Malaysian restaurant, Madam Kwan’s is on my itinerary! It’s delicious homestyle Malaysian food in central locations – think quick street food in a simple restaurant setting. After first having the Beef Rendang at the Singapore outlet years ago, I’ve come back many times and suggest you give it

European airline consolidation continues: Czech Airlines takeover

After the insolvencies of alitalia, airberlin and Monarch Airlines this years, I expected other smaller regional airlines to follow. It looks like that happened sooner than I though. Czech Airlines, the struggling flag carrier of the Czech Republic is being bought out by Travel Services, a local corporation that owns leisure, charter and budget transportation.

Best hotel views of Sydney: Holiday Inn Potts Point

The Holiday Inn Potts Point in Sydney offers splendid harbor views with the Sydney skyline, bridge and Opera House. The old-fashioned rooms are big, service is friendly & competent and the location near Kings Cross is convenient and fun. It’s good value and I would recommend it to friends & family!

Last airberlin Flight on October 27th, award flights on partner airlines continuing

airberlin has announced their final flight after 39 years of operation – AB6210 from Munich to Berlin on October 27th, 2017! While the holding company will soldier on, there will be no flights with an airberlin flight number after this day. In an odd twist of fate, award tickets booked through airberlin’s reward program, topbonus,

A Bali hotel best avoided – Holiday Inn Express Bali Raya Kuta

The Holiday Inn Express Bali Raya Kuta has large modern rooms as you expect from the brand in Asia – and the good news ends there. The service is terrible, the location is far from the beach and between two noisy roads and the tour groups frequenting this hotel are not helping it either and

UK’s Monarch Airlines bankrupt – 3rd European airline to fold in 2017, who’s next?

After airberlin and Alitalia entering insovlency this year, now Monarch Airlines went bankrupt and abruptly halted operations. The UK government refused to provide a loan like Germany or Italia had done and instead organized a “rescue mission” to bring back 110,000 Monarch customers stranded abroad! More than 700,000 customers have lost their future tickets and

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