Air China is also working on implementing interline e-ticketing (IET) with the twenty airlines of Star Alliance before Air China becomes a full member of the alliance later this year. At present Air China has IET with sixteen Star Alliance members and will complete IET cooperation with all Star Alliance members by the end of December.

“Interline e-ticketing is a great convenience to our international passengers,” said Mrs. Zhang Lan, Vice President for Air China, “and we are pleased to offer this useful service. Many passengers across our global network need to change airlines to reach their final destination, and the ease of a single interline e-ticket makes flying Air China that much more appealing and care-free.”

Currently, Air China offers IET cooperation with United Airlines, Northwest Airlines, Air Canada, British Airways, Lufthansa Airlines, Scandinavian Airlines, THAI, Singapore Airlines, Qantas Airways, Cathay Pacific, Air New Zealand, Silk Air, Korean Airlines, Adria Airways, ANA, Austrian Airlines, China Airlines, Asiana Airlines, bmi, Spanair, Blue One, LOT Polish Airlines, Wideroe’s Flyveselskap, Eva Air, and Croatia Airlines.

To make its electronic tickets widely available, Air China offers e-ticket through eight Global Distribution Systems, including WORLDSPAN, ABACUS, SABRE, AMADEUS, GALILEO, AXCESS, TOPAS, and INFINI, for the ease and convenience of its passengers worldwide.

As China’s sole designated flag carrier and the Airline Partner of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, Air China (HKEX: 0753; LSE: AIRC; SSE: 601111) serves 78 domestic and 39 international cities with an extensive network from its Beijing hub, conveniently linking passengers between China and destinations around the world. In North America, Air China serves New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Vancouver with daily non-stop service to Beijing.

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San Francisco, (PRWEB) November 13, 2004 — Airtreks.com and around- the-world travel are featured in this month’s 20th anniversary issue of National Geographic Traveler magazine, “The New Grand Tour: A Travel Adventure for the 21st Century.”

According to the lead story in the magazine’s special issue, “A global circumnavigation remains the world’s greatest journey. For two out of every three people, this is the “ultimate travel experience,” according to an exclusive National Geographic traveler/Yahoo! Travel poll.”

National Geographic Traveler identifies Airtreks.com as “ticket masters”, saying that, “An agent specializing in RTW [around-the- world tickets can save you money — and a potential headache… Edward Hasbrouck, author of “The Practical Nomad” and an agent for Airtreks.com, says he has sold around-the-world tickets for as little as $1,500.”

Hasbrouck — the staff Travel Guru and consumer advisor at Airtreks.com — also joined National Geographic Traveler editor-in-chief Keith Bellows for a panel presentation on how to plan a trip around the world as part of the National Geographic Society’s prestigious travel lecture series at NGS headquarters in Washington, DC, on September 22nd.

Introducing the special issue, Bellows says that, “Most people feel that this experience is unattainable — too expensive, too time-consuming and just too decadent overall. But such a trip is actually within reach — and it’s not nearly as expensive as one might think. National Geographic Traveler has dedicated its entire October issue to a trip around the world… From buying the right round-the-world ticket, to expert tips and useful Web sites.

Bellows says he and the magazine identify this type of travel as a growing trend: “Around-the-world tourism has been with us for a long time…. But we think around-the- worlding will soon become more commonplace as people decide to take off longer chunks of time, as college grads delay their entry into the workforce, as retiring boomers embark on trips they once only talked about. True, most of us still dismiss the thought of such an adventure. We say we don’t have the time. We say we don’t have the money. But such a trip is actually within reach of most readers. And it’s not nearly as expensive as you might think….We hope our 20th birthday special convinces you that seeing more of the world need not be a dream. You can make it happen.”

“Airtreks.com has been providing travellers and travel agents with tickets around the world, and for other multi- stop international trips, for more than decade,” says Hasbrouck, whose acclaimed guidebook for around the world travel planning, “The Practical Nomad: How to Travel Around the World”, is now in its third edition. “So it’s no surprise to us that this is waht travellers really want to do. But it’s great to see more people learning how easy and affordable it can be to fulfill their top travel fantasy.”

About Airtreks
Airtreks, Inc., is the worldwide leader in providing customized, efficient, and affordable air tickets and technology for complex international trips.

TripPlanner, the flagship application on the Airtreks.com Web site, enables travelers and retail travel agents to create customized itineraries — with an unlimited number of destinations — and receive instant retail or wholesale price estimates. Airtreks’ unique global sourcing strategy and proprietary technology make it possible for Airtreks to offer complex international air tickets at substantially discounts from the published fares offered by airlines, typical travel agencies, or other airfare Web sites. And Airtreks’ staff of travel consultants, including leading experts on international travel, works with each client to optimize their choices of airlines, routes, and fares.

Airtreks provides complex international air tickets to travelers starting their journeys from anywhere in the world, through Airtreks.com and partner Web sites and through travel agencies participating in Airtreks’ travel agent net fare program. For more information, visit http://www.airtreks.com.

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“AIM continues to be one of the largest suppliers of flight safety
components to Sikorsky for BLACK HAWK helicopters and is actively
participating and bidding on projects relating to other Sikorsky
helicopter platforms,” said Peter Rettaliata, Chief Executive Office
of Air Industries Group. “The long term agreement announced today
represents additional requirements over and above the total of $75
million in long term general purchase agreements between Sikorsky and
Air Industries that were announced in 2007 for the BLACK HAWK
helicopter as well as other order announcements made subsequent to
that time.”

The S-80(TM) helicopter, an international variant of the MH-53E,
is in service with the Japan Defense Agency. The domestic version of
this aircraft, assigned to U.S. Navy Helicopter Mine Countermeasures
squadrons, specializes in mine-sweeping missions. The helicopter is
outfitted with enlarged fuel sponsons, provides long-range fleet
support, and can tirelessly plumb the world’s strategic waterways,
detecting every known type of mine. Also known as the SEA DRAGON
helicopter, it is equipped with the latest mine-sweeping systems,
using mechanical, magnetic and acoustic sweep gear and minehunting
sonar to clear vital shipping lanes. The helicopter platform also
performs the U.S. Navy’s vertical onboard delivery (VOD) mission,
transporting heavy equipment to and from ships.

According to Sikorsky, for more than two decades the CH-53E (SUPER
STALLION(TM)) has been the most capable and most powerful marine
heavy-lift helicopter in the world. Used by the United States Marine
Corps, the three-engine CH-53E is also the largest marine helicopter
in operation. It is deployed from Marine Corps amphibious assault
ships to transport personnel and equipment, and to carry external
(sling) loads.

ABOUT SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION

Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, a subsidiary of United Technologies
Corporation (NYSE:UTX), is a world leader in the design and
manufacture of advanced helicopters for commercial, industrial and
military uses. Sikorsky’s products have been saving lives since 1944,
when a Sikorsky performed the world’s first helicopter rescue mission.
The company’s long commitment to safety and innovation is reflected in
its mission statement: “We pioneer flight solutions that bring people
home everywhere…every time(TM).”

Sikorsky’s BLACK HAWK helicopter derivatives serve in 25
governments around the world in a diverse range of missions such as
combat assault, peacekeeping, border patrol, drug interdiction,
disaster relief and medical evacuation. The legendary BLACK HAWK is
the first choice for military operations worldwide. More than 2,800
S-70 and H-60 variants have accumulated more than five million flight
hours for the United States military and Sikorsky’s international
customers.

Based in Stratford, Connecticut, Sikorsky has major facilities in
other Connecticut locations as well as in Alabama, Florida, New York,
Pennsylvania, Texas, Wisconsin, and in Poland. Sikorsky employs
approximately 13,000 worldwide.

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Since humans first looked up at birds in flight, we have been trying to fly like them, often with painful or even fatal consequences. Even with the technology available today, we are just beginning to be able to apply some of the technology that has existed in birds for, oh, 150 million years, such as variable geometry wings, vectored thrust, and fly-by-wire.

To accomplish sustained flight, an object must have some means of generating lift. In airplanes, this is done by moving an airfoil shape through the air with some means of propulsion. The amount of lift generated is a function of the airfoil shape, the angle at which the airfoil encounters the air stream, and the speed at which the airfoil moves through the air.

Birds, however, have combined their lift generating and thrust producing functions into one assembly - the wings. Early observers believed that birds simply flapped their wings up and down, and that bird-like flight could be duplicated by simply flapping their arms vigorously - like Zork - or by building some kind of contraption that flapped its wings. They assumed that if a bird flew by flapping its wings, that they could too by duplicating the motion. However, they failed to understand how a bird actually flies and how much energy it would take. So “flapping” never got off the ground. Sorry about that.

Even the great Leonardo DaVinci spent many years working on totally impractical ornithopters (flapping wing) aircraft, in part because he, too, failed to understand how birds flew.

Birds fly by “flapping” their wings, true, but the actual motion and physics are much more complex. As a bird’s wing moves down, the feathers also rotate downward automatically. Air is pushed to the rear (thrust) and lift is generated on the top surface. As the wing transitions to move upward, the feathers rotate in the opposite direction, producing thrust from the top surface of the wing and lift. Think of their wings as a propeller that goes 180 degrees then reverses.

Toward the end of his life, Leonardo did design a device that used a rotating screw-like structure. Igor Sikorsky, it is said, was inspired by Leonardo’s work to become a world leader in helicopter development. It’s worth noting that helicopter blades and propellers are really a form of screw, so Leonardo was not far off on that one. He also designed a glider which could be turned by the pilot shifting his weight, foretelling the hang glider.

Leonardo - and Zork - also failed to understand how much energy is required to take off and sustain flight. Aircraft - and birds - must generate more lift than they weigh just in order to take off. This requires the development of several enabling technologies.

The first is a light flying structure that can support its own weight while in the air. Many early craft could not. Birds have a very light structure (Thanksgiving Turkeys not withstanding) and extremely powerful muscles to power their wings. A voracious appetite for high-energy foods provides the power.

A second enabling technology was the development of an internal combustion engine that was light, yet produced enough power to move the machine fast enough to generate lift greater than weight. And higher performing engines could not be developed until higher octane fuels became available.

To illustrate the problem, the Wright Brothers’ 1903 Flyer weighed 605 pounds without a pilot, and had a 12 horsepower engine. With a pilot, that’s over 60 pounds per horsepower. The Cessna 172, a popular, but hardly spectacular performer, runs about ten pounds per horsepower.

But getting airborne and staying there are two different things. Whether bird or machine, a flying object must be controllable or it simply falls out of the sky. A future article will look at stability and controllability.

Bottom line - we have learned a lot from birds about flying. It just took 150 million years.

The first tip is one that isn’t common knowledge and is usually only applicable to international flights. Many carriers will partner up and share seats on international flights in order to reduce their costs. For most passengers they aren’t even aware that there may be two carriers selling tickets to seats on the same plane, however, what usually happens is that one of the carriers will sell their tickets slightly cheaper than the other. What does this mean for you? It means that you can easily save by purchasing your ticket through one carrier than the other and you still end up on the same flight, same plane to the same destination. This is a super easy way to knock some money off your next ticket.
The second tip to help you find discount flight tickets is to search online. It might not sound like much but the fact is that many people still buy tickets from their local travel agent, but the truth is that you’ll pay top dollar by going through these kinds of agents. Why would people still buy from brick and mortar agents? The most common reasons are because they don’t know where to look online or they are worried about purchasing tickets online as they have never done it before. If you already know about discount domestic flights online but just haven’t tried it yet because you’ve just never done it before, take a leap of faith and try it out. You’ll be doing your wallet a huge favor by saving some money on your next flight.