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

November 22, 2004

Busiest Travel Week Of Year Begins
Ladies and gentlemen, start your holiday engines. This should be the busiest Thanksgiving for travel since before 2001, according to analysts who say consumers are buoyed by the recovering domestic economy. Even gasoline prices that are about one-third higher than a year ago are not expected to keep travelers off the streets and out of the skies. “Our offices have been hopping,” said Georjeane Blumling , spokeswoman for AAA of Tidewater. “It appears people are confident and ready to go.” An estimated 37.2 million Americans will journey 50 miles or more from home for the holiday, Heathrow, Fla.-based AAA said in a statement. (Pilot) Posted 6:35 a.m.
• Tips For Traveling During Thanksgiving (Statesman)
• How To Deal With Crowded Roads (CNN)

If you have to travel this week, good luck. Remember, we'll be here monitoring the news during the holiday.

Four Passengers Overboard on Cruise
Four men plunged three stories from the deck of a riverboat cruise just as it was sweeping by the downtown cityscape late yesterday afternoon. By late last night, three had emerged alive. One man was still missing. Appearing shaken and cold, showboat passenger Thomas Blythe described standing on a catwalk at the front of the Music City Queen with a co-worker he knows only as Ricky. He said they were enjoying a company junket when the catwalk broke beneath them, sending them on a freefall into the chilly Cumberland River below. (Tennesseean) Posted 6:45 a.m.

Hotel Lockout Ends in San Francisco
Thirty-eight raucous days of picket lines, tough talk and the angst of 4,300 San Francisco hotel workers locked out of their jobs with the holidays nigh were put aside Saturday when negotiators for the hotels and the workers' union agreed to a 60-day cooling-off period and ended, for now, the lockout. It's only the completion of round one in a complex labor dispute, and agreement has yet to be reached on the major issues that separate the disparate sides. There could be more labor unrest in 60 days. Still, the clangorous picket lines came down within a few hours of the announcement of the accord, restoring relative peace downtown. (Chronicle) Posted 6:50 a.m.

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The Future According to Hollywood - Last week the crème de la crème of the online travel industry met at the PhoCusWright Executive Conference in Hollywood. The presidents and CEOs of hundreds of companies who are involved with online travel gathered to learn what to expect in the coming year and to wheel and deal in marathon networking. Wall Street analysts began the conference with an assessment that growth in the online travel segment is beginning to slow down. This slowdown is caused by the previous growth in the industry and broadband penetration. (Ticked.com)

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'Widening Chasm' In The Air - Let us, for a moment, imagine how the other half flies. Your limo pulls up to the terminal, and you glide into the club lounge. You enjoy a gourmet meal and sip a good single-malt whiskey, then board the plane, slip into designer pajamas and curl up in a private pod. After viewing one of scores of movie selections on your 10.4-inch TV, you slip under the covers on a full-length mattress. If you awaken at 3 or 4 a.m., you can grab a glass of warm milk at the bar. (Los Angeles Times) Posted 7 a.m.

Italy's First Budget Airline Grounded - Volare, Italy's first budget airline, has been grounded amid reports of a financial crisis at the firm. The airline, which operates domestic and international flights, has cancelled all flights and suspended ticket sales on an indefinite basis. (BBC) Posted 7:05 a.m.

Oops, I Missed The Runway - An American Airlines jet made a rough landing at Denver International Airport on Sunday morning after it undershot a runway. American Flight 1115 from Dallas-Fort Worth to Denver landed about 1,000 feet short of runway 35L at DIA, officials said. None of the 103 passengers and five crew members was injured. "It's a very unusual event," Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Donn Walker said. (Denver Post) Posted 7:10 a.m.

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