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I usually focus on reporting the top-rated airlines, hotels and destinations, but today I’m sadly reporting the worst – Cebu Pacific Airlines and AirAsia‘s Philippine subsidiary have both made the list of worst airlines for on-time performance. Cebu Pacific only got 58.4% of flights to their destination on time (within 15 minutes of schedule) in
AirAsia, the world’s best low-cost carrier, is based in Malaysia, but already has subsidiaries in Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan and India. They’ve now signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with Vietnamese businessman Tran Trong Kien to build a low-cost carrier following the AirAsia blueprint based in Vietnam. Find out more about there plans below!
Earlier this year Turkish Airlines (TK) announced that they’d be installing new business class seats on new Airbus A350 and Boeing B787 to be delivered starting in 2019. But they were coy about the details and didn’t provide a seat manufacturer or photos. Now, a photo of the seats was (accidentally?) published in a Turkish
The last-minute hotel booking site HotelQuickly has gone under, leaving hundreds of travelers stranded without hotel rooms and with worthless vouchers instead of refunds. The company based in Singapore was a copy cat of successful hoteltonight, offering last minute hotel stays at low prices. Meta-search sites that compare hotel and flight bookings across hundreds of
Singapore Airlines is shuffling the routes served by their subsidiaries full-service Silk Air and low-cost Scoot, prior to integrating Silk Air into Singapore Airlines. They are also cancelling the Scoot flights to Honolulu due to weak demand, the budget carriers only route to the USA. The reorganization makes sense to me. Check out the impacted
Earlier this year I reported of the plans to launch a new hybrid airline in Vietnam, Bamboo Airways, and now they received their license to operate from the aviation authorities in Vietnam, allowing them to start flying within 45 days – or in early 2019. The airline industry is notoriously difficult, so it’s great to
Radisson Rewards, the loyalty program of Radisson Hotels, is currently offering a 100% bonus when purchasing reward points, allowing you to top of your reward account and book free hotel stays! If you are not quite ready to book one of the many hotel deals during the Black Friday / Cyber Monday madness, buying points
Avianca, the flag carrier of Columbia, is the second largest airline in Latin America and has the most destinations on the continent. Their CyberWeek promotion offers to purchase up to 200,000 award miles with a bonus of 140%, for a grand total of up to 480,000 miles – enough to travel the world in First
As we are getting closer to Black Friday this week, the travel sales keep rolling in: You can now book hotels at the boutique hotel chain Joie de Vivre with up to 40% of regular prices. And even better, you can win a free stay of two nights at any of their properties in a
Hong Kong might not be celebrating Thanksgiving, but that won’t stop Cathay Pacific from launching a Black Friday Promotion for flights from the US to Asia. You can get $1,000 off Business Class and $500 off Premium Economy tickets for round-trip flights to select destinations. Business Class starts as low as $2,334 from Seattle to
Viceroy Hotels is running an early Cyber Monday sale with discount of up to 45% at their 12 boutique hotels in 8 popular destinations including San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Mexico and the Caribbean. Several of the hotels are former Kimpton properties and prices in San Francisco can exceed $500/night, giving you an idea of