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TRAVEL   |  3 comments

When the Red-Eye Becomes the Green-Eye

Last week, UK-based low-cost airline easyJet announced it had designed an aircraft that would reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 50 percent. They call it the "ecoJet" and claim the design could become reality by 2015. Sounds great, ...READ»

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S(l)ick Marketing

I've long been a fan of serial entrepreneur Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the founder of the UK's low-fare no-frills airline easyJet, and myriad other easy-spinoffs. Stelios, as he prefers to be called, is cheap, and proud of it. He ...READ»

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Stelios Makes Growth Look Easy

Stelios Haji-Ioannou, known throughout Europe by his first name, provides cheap travel for the masses. His formula for business success? It's easy -- as in easyJet, easyCar, even easyCinema. Just slash costs, maximize publicity, and "sweat the assets."READ»

In Movieland, Not so Easy

Stelios Haji-Ioannou is at it again.READ»

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Microsoft Launches Bing Travel Search, We Take It For a Ride

This week has been all about Microsoft's Bing, the company's rival to Google. And now that its travel engine is live too, ready to help you globe-trot, we've taken it for a very quick spin for you. Bing Travel may just be ...READ»

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Traveling in Fast Company

We've selected some of the best business travel-related articles and tools from Fast Company for this online resource center. We'll continue to add new resources as time goes on. And Now the Hard Part Can ...READ»

The Brand Called UK

A member of the London Company of Friends group recently emailed me an article about Barbara Cassani, who's working to bring the Olympics to England -- and who "wants to overcome our natural British reserve and apathy." Previously, ...READ»

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Low Cost And Long Haul: Can It Work?

Last November Hong Kong-based Oasis Airlines started offering flights from Hong Kong to London's Gatwick airport at ridiculously low prices. Hong Kong being a former British colony means that there is enough traffic between the two ...READ»

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Fast 50 2008: Air Asia

What can you buy with a quarter? Maybe a few drops of gas or a Jolly Rancher -- unless you're a former music exec named Tony Fernandes. Seven years ago, Fernandes paid 25 cents for a near-defunct carrier with two creaky planes and ...READ»