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...lowest fares. James Rothnie, director of corporate affairs at easyJet, a British discounter, says that while his company's figures are "more anecdotal than scientific, up to 50% of passengers could have paid the lowest fare." That might be as little as $25 for a flight from Amsterdam to Geneva on easyJet or $32 from Brussels to Dublin on Ryanair, excluding taxes and handling fees...
...travelers to boost profits, so their yield-management systems tend to be more finely tuned. "Certain times of the day or the year call for more yield management," says Rothnie. For example, now that business travelers have discovered budget airlines, an early morning flight from London to Paris or Amsterdam is likely to be more expensive than a midmorning one. A weekend flight to Geneva in winter-think snow-will probably be more expensive than in summer...
Peter's inspiration for the city probably came from Amsterdam. But his ambition quickly grew. It was to be the Paris, the Venice of the North. As usual in Russia, nameless Russians from remote villages were sacrificed to the leader's dreams. Tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands died. St. Petersburg, the 19th century historian Nikolai Karamzin wrote in words that fit today, "is a city founded on tears and corpses." It was, many felt, a fitting legacy of Russia's greatest reformer, who dragged his empire into the modern age by a mixture of will-power and terror...
...nightmare and the precocious adolescent Ellen is both fresh and hauntingly familiar. There are the echoes of another spunky Dutch girl that get the reader's imagination working overtime. What sort of chronicle of deaths foretold would Anne Frank have written if she had survived Bergen-Belsen, returned to Amsterdam and moved back to her secret quarters at 263 Prinsengracht...
...OOSTEN PAVILION As the clouds pass over Amsterdam, colors shimmer and shift subtly on the surface of architect Steven Holl's magnificent yet playful cube. This riverside structure, built for a Dutch corporation, looks less as if it was made from glass and perforated metal than from the surrounding water and light...