Word: discounter
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...ways Ryanair and other discount airlines keep fares down is to use uncrowded regional airports, where they can turn their planes around in 25 minutes instead of 45. "We wouldn't fly to the likes of Charles de Gaulle, Heathrow or Copenhagen if you paid us," says O'Toole. "They're too congested. When you fly your aircraft there you are queueing in the clouds...
...easyJet will not dominate the discount skies. Ryanair already has an operating base in Germany, at Frankfurt-Hahn Airport. The Berlin-based, former charter airline Germania is also focused on the budget traveler. From December, Brussels-based Virgin Express is planning flights from Cologne-Bonn Airport. Even German flagship Lufthansa appears to be getting the message; last month it gave its blessing to a proposal by German carrier Eurowings, in which it has a key shareholding, to enter the budget fray. Soon, Germans may discover what travelers from Britain now take for granted: for the consumer, no-frills fares...
...relevant," for a series made almost two years ago. News was all set to run on tnt in January 2001 but was scuttled by new management after the merger that created AOL Time Warner (which owns TNT and TIME). This year Bravo bought all 13 episodes--at a deep discount. But despite being shot before 9/11, Ashleigh Banfield's dye job, Greta Van Susteren's eye job and Paula Zahn's "zipper" ad, News doesn't play like old news. Like E.R., whose frenzied pace it emulates, News nails the jargon and the adrenaline rush of its subject...
...someone has a disability that can be accommodated here, we want to make sure we don’t discount their ability,” she said...
...Singh's death prompted an outcry over the ease with which Alprax can be obtained. Five people, including a doctor, were arrested recently for exporting Alprax without a license to Western consumers who bought the drug at a steep discount over the Internet. But officials say that it is almost impossible to stop over-the-counter sales in India. "There are many medicines that are abused as psychotropic substances," says M. K. Singh, head of the country's narcotics board. "It is highly dangerous, but in this country, that awareness, that consciousness, is yet to come...