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With rock-bottom fares, the low-cost carriers are prompting people to rethink their holiday plans. When a vacation abroad can cost less than a similar break at home, the attraction is irresistible. So more and more Europeans are taking a couple of short breaks a year in addition to their annual vacation. And they are venturing into unknown territories. Eileen and Geoff Morgan of Hastings, England went to Graz this year. "We'd never been to Austria before," says Eileen. "It was lovely, just like the postcards." They now plan to visit St. Etienne in France, "and lots...
...grounds for optimism. Earlier this year, Ireland's Ryanair announced a 44% increase in earnings over the previous year, despite a fall in the average fare price. EasyJet has reported passenger growth of up to 43% in year-on-year comparisons. The carrier has just completed a 3590 million takeover of fellow bare-bones airline Go, once owned by British Airways. The deal marks the low-cost industry's first consolidation and makes easyJet its largest player, operating 81 routes and serving 32 destinations...
...Omen A group of overweight Americans is suing four leading fast-food chains, including McDonald's, over weight-related health problems blamed on the high fat and salt content of cheap, habit-forming fare...
...point about GPRS is that it makes handsets, in terms of receiving data, less like phones and more like computers. "PC players, PDA players, games makers - all these guys suddenly have the same underlying technology," says Jones. Already, low-cost Asian manufacturers are getting in on high-end fare, like color screens. For the operators, the question is whether the market can grow fast enough to get the data (as opposed to the relatively cheap voice) business up to their targets of around 25% of revenues by 2005 or 2006. (Even with the mass success of text messaging...
Before descending into the Stygian darkness of the dining room proper, where flashlights and even luminous watches and mobile phones are prohibited, customers choose their fare in the restaurant's brightly lit, cheerfully decorated entrance hall. To add to the spirit of mystery, individual dishes are not clearly identified as, say, goat cheese on a tomato beignet. Instead, enigmatic descriptions such as "a flying visit to an Alpine cheese factory" make the diners even more curious about what's soon to hit their palettes. It's all very reminiscent of the exotic dinner parties planned by the Futurists, the early...