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- Cuba Returning to Caribbean Cruise Ships' List of Destinations.
- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 22 -- Cuba is no longer the Caribbean destination that cruise ships pass by. Eight foreign-owned ships reportedly called in Cuba last winter. At least two of the eight are scheduled to sail there again this...
- Research articles 1999-07-21
- Cruises Increasingly Include Stops in Cuba.
- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 22 -- Cuba is no longer the Caribbean destination that cruise ships pass by. Eight foreign-owned ships reportedly called in Cuba last winter. At least two of the eight are scheduled to sail there again this winter....
- Research articles 1999-07-22
- Airtours seals pounds 168m Costa deal
- Airtours' already close relationship with its largest shareholder, Carnival Corporation, intensified yesterday after the two companies put the finishing touches to their first joint purchase, the pounds 168m acquisition of Costa Crociere, Europe's leading passenger cruise operator. Airtours' shares closed 11p higher at pounds 10.09p after the deal,...
- Research articles 1997-03-18
- Airtours buys up Italian cruise operator for pounds 181m
- The rise and rise of Airtours continued yesterday after the tour operator, Britain's second-largest after Thomson, announced a further move into the booming cruise market with the acquisition of Europe's largest cruise company, Italy's Costa Crociere. Airtours' shares jumped 50p to 797.5p on the news, at which level they have...
- Research articles 1996-12-20
- Carnival Corp. Will Boost European Presence through Costa Cruises.(Originated from The Miami Herald)
- Dec. 20--Carnival Corp. expanded its global reach Thursday by announcing the planned $300 million cash acquisition of Costa Cruises, Europe's largest line. Under the agreement, Carnival and the giant European tour company Airtours will take equal stakes in Costa. Earlier this...
- Research articles 1996-12-20
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- Airtours plc Leverages Engage Software to Launch International Travel Portal; Engage Retail Industry Solution Integral to Airtours' International Re-Branding Initiative
- Business Editors & Travel Writers ANDOVER, Mass.--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 22, 2002 Engage, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENGA), a leading enterprise marketing software company and a majority-owned operating company of CMGI, Inc. (Nasdaq: CMGI), today announced that its Retail Industry Solution recently assisted the successful launch of the Airtours Group's travel portal,...
- Research articles 2002-01-22
- Airtours sells Italian cruiser stake
- AIRTOURS, THE UK's top-ranked tour operator, has agreed to sell its 50 per cent interest in Costa Crociere, an Italian cruise operator, to Carnival Corporation for pounds 350m. Airtours will use the cash proceeds from the sale to invest in growth areas, including "potential acquisitions of other leading leisure travel...
- Research articles 2000-08-29
- Crossland drops Airtours name for MyTravel Group
- AIRTOURS, BRITAIN'S second-biggest holiday company, is to change its name to MyTravel Group as part of a major rebranding exercise. The company will use the new name on its fleet of 51 aircraft as well as its 1,000-strong chain of travel agencies with the Going Places name being gradually phased...
- Research articles 2001-11-28
- AIRTOURS BUYS SAS LEISURE
- AIRTOURS, the UK holiday group, is buying SAS LEISURE, Scandinavia's largest tour operator, for GBP 74 million. SAS LEISURE is a subsidiary of SCANDINAVIAN AIRLINES SYSTEM SAS and has 31% of the Scandinavian tour operating market. It owns or manages AIRTOURS, the UK holiday group, is buying...
- Research articles 1994-05-28
- UK GOVERNMENT: Proposed acquisition by Airtours of First Choice Holidays.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-27 May 1999-UK GOVERNMENT: Proposed acquisition by Airtours of First Choice Holidays C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:260599 Kim Howells, Minister for Competition and Consumer Affairs, has decided, in accordance with the advice of the Director General of Fair Trading, not...
- Research articles 1999-05-27
- Airtours close to deal with Carnival cruise giant
- Final agreement is understood to have been reached for Carnival Corporation, the world's largest cruise ship operator, to take a near 30 per cent stake in Airtours, the second largest holiday company in the UK. Airtours first admitted it was in talks the week before last, following a...
- Research articles 1996-01-30
- Airtours gets airborne again on hopes of US alliance
- Shares of Airtours, which suffered acute embarrassment from the slump in overseas holidays last year, have soared since it announced a dramatic profits fall four weeks ago. They climbed a further 12p to 418p against a 309p low just ahead of the results. The big cutback...
- Research articles 1996-01-11
- Carnival gains Airtours stake
- Airtours, Britain's second largest tour operator, has agreed to sell a near 30 per cent stake in the company to Carnival Corporation, the US cruise operator in a pounds 200m deal that could lead to a full takeover. Howard Frank, Carnival's vice-chairman said a full bid was "always...
- Research articles 1996-02-23
- Airtours wins shareholder backing for pounds 800m First Choice bid
- AIRTOURS HAS secured the backing of 51.7 per cent of shareholdersin First Choice Holidays in support of its pounds 800m hostile bid. The success of the Airtours bid, which trumped First Choice's planned merger with Kuoni, now depends on clearance from the regulatory authorities in Brussels. A decision on fast-track...
- Research articles 1999-05-22
- WAR ON TERRORISM: Travel Industry - Avis and Airtours become latest
- THE FALLOUT from last week's aeroplane hijackings in the US on the leisure sector became clearer yesterday as Avis Europe and Airtours warned that fear of flying would hit their bottom lines. Shares in Avis Europe plunged 13 per cent to 103p after it warned that the...
- Research articles 2001-09-22
- Carnival Corp. to Buy Airtours Stake in Italian Cruise Business.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
- Aug. 29--Carnival Corp. announced Monday that it will expand its reach in the European cruise market by purchasing the 50 percent of Italy's Costa Crociere that it doesn't already own. Carnival will buy the Costa stake from British tour operator Airtours for about $525...
- Research articles 2000-08-29
- US law firm hires key player in Airtours case.
- Byline: Michael Hoare Latham & Watkins, the US law firm, has hired a competition lawyer who played a leading role in last year's controversial Airtours ruling as counsel in its Brussels office.The recruitment of Javier Ruiz Calzado takes the number of lawyers in Latham's...
- Research articles 2003-03-03
- Airtours to roll-over fleet
- AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-C1997-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Airtours Plc, a British package-tour operator, is apparently planning a USD1bn aircraft order that will simplify its fleet and reduce maintenance costs. The tour operator is reportedly engaged in negotiations with leasing companies and aircraft manufacturers including Airbus Industrie and ...
- Research articles 2000-10-06
- British men jailed for Airtours air rage incident
- AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-C1997-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A Leicester Crown Court judge has jailed two British men after they were involved in an air rage incident onboard an Airtours flight from Alicante, Spain to East Midlands airport in August 1999. A fight erupted between the pair during...
- Research articles 2000-10-13
- City expects First Choice to bid for Airtours
- WHEN PETER Long, the chief executive of First Choice, posts interims on Tuesday the management's view on possible mergers for the group will be of much more interest to the City than the figures. Last week's decision by Europe's supreme court to annul the 1999 ruling which blocked First Choice's...
- Research articles 2002-06-10
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