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With one click you can find the best deals on your destination. We like city deals – and we think we have the better citypairs you can check out.
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Basel-Mulhouse airport is not as small as you might think- We have mapped the most requested Citypairs to give you the convenience of finding best travel deals instantly by the click of the link.
Check it out! Alicante Amsterdam Antalya Augsburg Bangkok Barcelona BASEL Berlin bordeaux Brussels Budapest Casablanca cologne Dresden Dubai Dublin Duesseldorf dusseldorf Edinburgh Frankfurt geneva genf Goteborg Hamburg Hannover Havanna Helsinki HONGKONG Hurghada Istanbul Koeln koln Kopenhagen LasPalmas Leipzig Lissabon London LosAngeles Madrid mailand Malaga Malta Manchester Marrakesch Miami milan munchen munich Neapel NewYork Nizza Oslo Palma Paris Prag Pristina Rom rome SanFrancisco Stockholm StPetersburg TelAviv Teneriffa Toronto Treviso Valencia Vancouver vienna Wien zurich

If you leave from Augsburg you may wish to consider our 300 newly activated CityPairs. Quick, convenient and easy to remember. We wish you a safe trip and a good return to AUGSBURG. AbuDhabi Adana Agadir Algiers Alicante Amman Amsterdam Anchorage Ancona Ankara Antalya Antananarivo Arrecife Asuncion Athen Atlanta Auckland Augsburg Bangalore Bangkok Barcelona Bari BASEL Beijing Beirut Belgrad Bergen Berlin Bern Bilbao Billund Birmingham Bogota Bologna Bombay Bordeaux Boston Brasilia Bremen Breslau Brigetown Brindisi Brisbane Bristol Brussels Bucharest Budapest BuenosAires Buffalo Burgas Cagliari Calgary Cancun Casablanca Catania Cebu Cengkareng Chania Charlotte Chennai ChiangMai Chicago Christchurch ClujNapoca COCHIN Colombo Cordoba Cork Dabolim Dallas Damascus DarEsSalaam Delhi Denpasar Denver Detroit Djerba Doha Donetsk Dortmund Dresden Dubai Dublin Dubrovnik Duesseldorf Durban Edinburgh Essendon Faro Florenz Fortaleza FortLauderdale FortMyers Frankfurt Frontera Fuerteventura Funchal Gdansk Genf Genua Glasgow Goteborg Granada GrandCentral Graz Guadalajara Guangzhou Guatemala Halifax Hamburg Hannover Hanoi Havanna Helsinki Heraklion HONGKONG Honolulu Houston Hurghada Hyogo Ibiza Istanbul Izmir Jacksonville Kabul Kahului Kairo Kaliningrad Kapstadt Kathmandu Kayseri Keflavik Kharkiv KhoSamui Kiev Kilimanjaro Kingston KISHINEV Klagenfurt Koeln Kopenhagen Kos Krabi Krakau Krasnodar KualaLumpur Lagos LameziaTerme Langebaanweg LaPalma LaPaz Larnaca LasPalmas LasVegas Leipzig Lima Lissabon London LosAngeles Luxemburg Lviv Lyon Madrid Mailand Maiquetia Malaga Male Malta Managua Manchester Manila Marrakesch MarsaAlam Marseille Mauritius Medellin Mexico Miami Minneapolis Minsk Mombasa Montego Moskau Muenster Mugla Muscat Nairobi Nassau Neapel NewOrleans NewYork Nicosia Nizza Novosibirsk Odessa Olbia Omsk Orlando Oslo Ottawa Paderborn Palermo Palma PalmBeach Panama Papeete Paris Perth Philadelphia PhnomPenh Phoenix Phuket Plata Podgorica Portland Porto Poznan Prag Pristina PuntaCana Pyrzowice Quito Raleigh Recife Rhodes Riga Rio Rom Saigon Sal SaltLake Salvador SanDiego SanFrancisco SanJose SanJuan SantaCruz Santiago SantoDomingo SaoPaulo Sarajevo Seattle Seoul Sevilla Seychelles Shanghai SharmElSheikh Sibiu Simferopol Singapur Skopje Sofia Split StHubert Stjordal Stockholm StPetersburg Sydney Taipei Tallinn Tampa Tanger Tashkent Tbilisi Tehran TelAviv Teneriffa Thessaloniki Thiruvananthapuram Timisoara Tirane Tokyo Toronto Toulouse Treviso Tunis Turin Ulaanbaatar Valencia Vancouver Varadero Verona Vilnius Warschau WASHINGTON Westerland Wien Windhuk Winnipeg Xingtai Yangon Yekaterinburg Zadar Zagreb Zanzibar Zuerich

A big day, ITB 2011 – Internationale Tourismusbörse Berlin opened its gates for about 12’000 professionals on March 9th, 2011. It will be another day of Fairquote launching 2035 German citypairs, all departures and direct flights from the 10 major airports in Germany.
The content for these Citypairs stems from Hitchhiker Travel GmbH, a well known travel consolidator and IT supplier. We also have updated the design and feature now FROM – From/to – and TO, a three column view.
Have a look at http://fra-lon.coop or for the lovers of less cryptic citypairs http://frankfurt-london.coop.
We also created a website specifically for German Citypairs called http://citypairs.de, and a wiki to contribute, at citypairs.wikia.com.
Your feed-back is most welcome.

As a first result, if the city pair is entered into the search box of Google, it comes up, mostly as No. 1. This is an encouraging result to have 120 million keywords in the right order.

Keep on going, Fairquote

Zurich Singapore ZRH SIN city pair is entered into the search box of Google

let’s change the world of travel search. You can register here and get a log-in to edit and maintain a live website, such as london-new york or boston- frankfurt. Make the site your own city pair. Become a fairquoter. Change the airline world and show better information. Start now, here….

The fvw Congress is the second most important German event (after ITB-Berlin) in travel. A number of key decision makers gathered this week in Cologne, to discuss trends, inventions and business. During the two-day workshops a number of interesting topics in travel came up and made it worth attending.

The Keynote-Session was about Google – Friend or enemy for tourism?

Stefan Tweraser, Country Director Germany/Austria/Switzerland made a speech introducing Google.  F. Scott Woods, Commercial director Facebook Germany came next with Social networks – a travel sales channel?  Not really revealing. Hotel evaluations – a winner for everyone was presented by Jörg Trouvain, managing director Holidaycheck. This is a train hard to stop.

All in all Europe’s network carriers take off with Merchandising 2.0, and Mobile business gets moving. The discussion on Flight data – Google’s ITA Deal and the consequences was a discussion with David Friderici (Hitchhiker), Hans-Joachim Klenz (Ypsilon Net) and Alexander von Koslowski (DER). They ran a bit late and short, given the fact that Stefan Tweraser had little information to give away as well.

Winfried Boeing
President Fairquote Cooperative

- one touch travel -

I have been working for the airline industry for the past 22 years and worked for airlines as well as IATA, the international air transport association. As a seasoned traveller I was always bemused of the seasoned cabin crew member, telling you when to wear a seatbelt or bringing you food when they like, not when you like. Now, after we successfully mastered ticketless travel, we should seriously consider crewless flying.  What on earth is so different to be in a bus or in an airbus? Does a bus need a bus crew?

But what about security?  Here are some answers:

When serious turbulences occur, the steward/ess is buckled up. When there is a health issue: “is there a doctor on board?” IMy car handles the fasten seatbelt warning without a human safety expert shouting at me, the phones can be more effectively jammed electronically and the invention of auto reclining seats is already made. Finally, bus accidents are far more often than airplane incidents and the death toll of “cabin crew members dying versus passengers saved due to cabin crew present” is not really in favor to keep them on board.

So what do I need the crew member for? Are they risking their lives to provide passenger required services?

The surprising answer is: they are on board because we have regulations like we had for paper tickets. They are needed to bring me food when I do not necessarily need it and must walk on my behalf when I call him/her for a glass of water. They can also sell things from vending machines, close the overhead baggage lockers, and hand out blankets or make announcements.

Why don’t airlines put an end to this? First class passengers can bring personal butlers on board, who can sit where the crew used to sit.  The business class gets a mini-bar in it’s seat and owns the key to it and the economy guest pulls drinks and food from vending machines, who now fit since the trolleys, galley and cabin crew is outside the plane… Passengers can stroll around and fetch something from the vending spot for their neighbor, the airline is up selling real food liked and paid for and tickets get a lot cheaper.  To make flying safe, have one or two air marshals on board who can intervene in case of troublemakers. Just like in a train. One conductor for a normal train of 300 passengers suffices to restore order and keep the peace.

Dr. Winfried Boeing

A number of years ago I was deeply immersed in the evolution and early rapid growth of that world class airline – Cathay Pacific. Those of us who were working at that great company were so wrapped up in our own world and our own successes, that perhaps our orientation got a little unfocused. A friend said, I thought unkindly at the time that we were so blinded by a green mist (the colour of the airline) that we had lost focus on some of the realities of commercial life. So too perhaps with Social Media, the phrase and the component parts, FaceBook, Twitter, YouTube, MySpace, LinkedIn, Flickr, Delicious and all the foreign language versions seem to dominate marketing and distribution conversations, just as it seems that there is no world outside the Social Media fog and fog it is. Scarcely two years old and growing like topsy, this tidal wave of data and comment has come out of nowhere and threatens to engulf conventional mechanisms and processes. While some question whether the Social Media phenomena can continue to hold sway and indeed wiser heads will argue that the marketing challenge of creating and then meeting a need has not changed, there is no doubt that at least short engagement with Social Media must be on the agenda of every serious marketing entity. Social Media in essence is about engaging with the customer and using that engagement both to understand their needs and to create a brand relationship that will survive and endure. Current experience points to ten keys concepts

1. Use SM to engage with potential and current customers and use it to build brand loyalty. If the customer is talking to you, then you had better listen. One major hotel group recently tracked 1 million mentions in a period of 2 weeks ~ their customers are talking.

2. Be prepared: Don’t start your SM journey without an opinion of what it can do for you or without the resources required to transact.

3. It is not all positive, so preparation for negative events (the Twitter Storm) is a necessary part of the engagement. You may have no choice. The recent Nestle and KitKat event being an extreme example.

4. Traditional marketing skills still apply, it is just moving faster. A lot faster, but it is easier to scale.

5. Don’t forget the offline world ~ it is still the majority of business, albeit declining rapidly. Make sure that both your on and offline strategies are integrated. Your customers’ are!

6. Recognise different personas in the same individual and set strategies accordingly. This is no different from the traditional world. Tim Hughes of BOOT.com describes this as the EveryYou ~ many versions of One

7. Don’t forget the search engines. Paid search is still the most effective means of gaining attention, it converts better and is not going away anytime soon

8. Trial & Error ~ its not expensive, but you need to agile and listening carefully. Refine, refine, refine.

9. Quality material makes a difference. Text, Images and Video. With so much material out there, you need to make a statement

10. More than ever your brand is transparent to the customer. If you don’t act up to your promise, they will see it. Engaging with SM calls for openness and sincerity. Conduct your SM strategy with with Energy & Passion and you will be rewarded.

Don Birch

three months after its initial release of the fairquote newsletter, we issued the newsletter no 2-

here we go – enjoy reading the hot fairquote newsletter 2.

Last joke:

hot in the press was the Iceland’s last will – “after my financial death – put my ash over Europe”