Tagged With "Amadeus"

"Will the future take you on an American Airlines flight ...crossing the ocean and Ryanair taking you from there?" I rarely say "never" but, in this case, never. I've tried it and will say unequivocally, never again. I have a personal rule which states, "if the only way to get there is on Ryanair, I won't go there." The airline is a reflection of it's founder, which is to say, trashy.

It seems a huge and unfair fee. I can't believe a company with Lufthansa's finances really needs to impose something so draconian. And if they do, I think their business will suffer. As we all know, consumers are very price sensitive.

Lufhansa Group is planning to charge a fee of 16€ (about $17.60) for all tickets booked anywhere except through its own websites and counters. The airline group claims it needs that money to offset the cost of processing tickets bought through...

Low-cost carrier Ryanair has taken a big step toward the mainstream by making its tickets available through travel agents for the first time. They are partnered with Amadeus, the computerized reservation system used by much of the travel agency...

A press conference in Prague Tuesday will feature a long-lost work jointly written by Mozart and his rival Salieri. It was found in a Prague museum.

Fascinating. Thanks for posting. My family and I have watched the film Amadeus at least two dozen times, and always supposed the Salieri poisoning was dramatic confabulation.

It had always seemed suspicious to me, but I had never known that it was Pushkin who earned a Parson Weems award for this one! Well, it certainly worked out well for F. Murray Abraham!