For information on Ontario meetings, please contact Svatka Hermanek: shermanek@schulich.yorku.ca or Bruce Weber: tel. 416-203-0911 or Paul Webb: tel. 416-694-8259.
Meetings are held on the third Friday of January, March, May, September and November. Usually at the Woodsworth Co-op, Penthouse, 133, Wilton Street in downtown Toronto at 8.00 p.m.
Director of Ryanair.com Conal Henry announced proudly: ‘Ryanair is the ONLY airline that provides access to all European Grand Prix destinations – all other airlines are the pits!!’ According to them, the best access to Hungarian GP near Budapest on August 15th is via… Graz, Austria, the distance to Hungary JUST 364 km.
What is going on! The passenger traffic statistics for March 2004 confirm Ryanair has carried 204,187 more passengers in UK/Europe than British Airways.
Ryanair on 7 April 2004 released its customer service statistics for March 2004. Ryanair is committed to publishing customer service statistics each month and these confirm that Ryanair is also No.1 for Customer Service.
Just in case you a regular visitor to Brest, in France, Ryanair has decided to discontinue the Brest-London (Stansted) route.
Spotted by Mac who wrote in to say: I read in yesterday’s Travel section of the Washington Post that a couple taking the Queen Mary 2 had picked out cabin but a few days before sailing were notified that they had been upgraded to the Deluxe Deck 8. They found out the upgrade was really a down grade although four decks up. There was a 150 person lifeboat outside their window. They said “it was like a tractor trailer blocking their view.” They looked in brochure and noticed a tiny asterisk at bottom page of brochure that some cabins had obstructed views. They were not able to change back or change. They wrote that while the Queen Mary 2 does fulfil the promise of being the longest, tallest, grandest ocean liner ever most of the cabins on Deck 8 (deluxe deck) are behind lifeboats. While most of you wont be booking passage on the Queen Mary 2. I wonder if one when booking on a ship gets to see layout of cabin with obstructed views. The few times I was on ship I had not view but was out of cabin except for sleeping up on deck so it did not make much difference.
On Saturday May 9th Wayne Stevenson Thomas from the International Cooperative Exchange Network, SERVAS gave a talk at the Texas branch of the Globetrotters Club. SERVAS was established in 1948 and is an international network of hosts and travellers building peace by providing opportunities for personal contact between people of diverse cultures and backgrounds. Through mutually arranged individual visits, hosts and travellers share their lives, interests and concerns about social issues. These encounters help form the building blocks of peace in the spirit of mutual service and respect.
See their website:http://www.usservas.org/
Dates of future meetings:
For more information about the Texas Branch: please contact texas@globetrotters.co.uk or register for email updates at our website (click here) or call Christina at 830-620-5482
If anybody would like to enquire about meetings or help Christina, please contact her on: texas@globetrotters.co.uk
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