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While some low-cost airlines are concentrating on more traditional destinations, Ryanair, Go and Buzz are boldly going where few have gone before. And their attentions are proving a boon, not just to holidaymakers who snap up bargain fares, but to places like Aarhus, Bergerac and Jerez, which are enjoying a boost to the local economy from an influx of tourists. As the summer vacation season reaches its peak at the conventional hotspots, the air over Europe is filling with people going to places that, until recently, they had never even heard...
Optimism is high in all the areas around the newly busy airports. When Buzz started service to France's bustling port of La Rochelle in March 2001 with four arrivals a week, they were the first international flights ever to land at the little airport. "The impact was immediate," says airport director Thomas Juin. "The traffic was much heavier than we anticipated." By the beginning of 2002 Buzz had increased the flights to nine a week after more than 25,000 people had used the service, spending 35.34 million in La Rochelle's hotels, restaurants, car-rental agencies and other...
...successful have the Buzz operations become that French cities are vying with each other to get on its map. "There is an awful lot of competition between different cities," says Harris. When Buzz started flying to La Rochelle and the picturesque cathedral city of Poitiers, the equally ancient city of Tours grew indignant. "They said, 'Why aren't you flying to us?'" he recalls. "'We've got a bigger town, a bigger airport and a student population.'" This year Buzz opened nine French routes - but not Poitiers - flying directly from the U.K. to more French destinations than any other airline...
...star that's causing all the buzz is 55 Cancri, about the size and age of our sun, located just 41 light-years away. This is not the first time a planet has been seen orbiting the star. In 1996 Geoffrey Marcy, a professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, and astrophysicist Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution of Washington spotted a different Jupiter-size world circling 55 Cancri in a close-up orbit just 10 million miles from the solar fires--closer than little Mercury orbits our own sun. All told, astronomers have found about...
...widening corruption scandal swirling around President Kim Dae Jung and his Millenium Democratic Party (MDP) has boosted the buzz level. Last week, prosecutors arrested presidential son Kim Hong Up on charges of bribery and influence-peddling. He joins Kim Hong Gul, the President's youngest son, now under indictment for bribery. The scandal has deflated support for MDP presidential candidate Roh Moo Hyun, widely seen as President Kim's horse in the December poll (Kim is constitutionally barred from running again). Party members are also alarmed about the shellacking the MDP got in local elections in early June. The smart...