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E L L I O T T ' S TRAVEL NOTES
Travel news, opinion and analysis

December 1, 2004

As Dollar Drops, British Invasion Begins
A weak dollar and a strong euro are luring British holidaymakers away from Europe to the US, according to new research. Tourism from the UK to Florida is at a four-year high and is forecast to hit 1.65m visitors this year, a rise of more than 20 per cent on 2002. The weak dollar has helped Florida poach new British business from Spain and consolidate its position as the most popular long-haul destination for holidaymakers. The strength of the euro has had a big impact on British travel to countries outside the eurozone, such as Bulgaria, Croatia and Turkey, which have experienced substantial increases in visitors, according to the report by the the Association of British Travel Agents. (Financial Times) Posted 6:35 a.m.
• Dollar Decline Puts Europeans to Test (Bloomberg)
• Foreign Visits to Canada Rebound, Too (Globe and Mail)

Unless the dollar recovers, we'll all be staying home in 2005.

N.C. Hotel Guests Flee 'Gunfire'
No shooters. No hostage. No breaking glass. Kinston (NC) Department of Public Safety officials said Monday that what people thought were gunshots and breaking glass at the Hampton Inn on U.S. 70 Saturday night was actually a malfunction of two of the hotel's hot water heaters. "The burners on two of the three gas hot water heaters located in the building malfunctioned at the same time," Woody Spencer, public information officer for the public safety department, said. (Free Press) Posted 6:45 a.m.

Workers Want $1 Billion From United
The battle to improve the status of pension liabilities during US bankruptcy proceedings heated up on Tuesday as employee trustees took United Air Lines to court for up to $1bn. Independent Fiduciary Services, appointed to protect the interests of three United pension plans under threat of termination, filed the motion with a bankruptcy court in Illinois. The motion seeks to classify recent unpaid pension contributions as normal administrative expenses and therefore give them higher priority than other unsecured debt, much of which is unlikely to be paid off. (Financial Times) Posted 6:50 a.m.

Airline Workers Getting Stressed Out
Workers at major airlines are showing signs of strain from salary and benefit cuts, threats to their pensions, demotions, layoffs and bigger workloads. And travelers are starting to pay. In the past month, the FBI launched an investigation into whether employees punctured US Airways jets. Strike talk spread among flight attendants at United, US Airways and other carriers. And unusually high numbers of workers sought counseling services. (USA Today) Posted 7 a.m.

Atlanta Excessive Force Case Goes to Media
She was dragged out of her car at an airport, slammed to the ground and handcuffed by a burly police officer in full view of a security camera, but Diana Dietrich-Barnes says there was absolutely no need for the officer to use such excessive force. (ABC News) Posted 7:05 a.m.

Truck, Plane, Collide at Philadelphia Airport
Emergency teams at Philadelphia International Airport were busier than normal this morning after a truck and a plane collided. It happened at about 6:25am at Terminal F, near Gate 78. Nobody was on the plane, and no one was injured. (WPVI) Posted 7:10 a.m.

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