1. Change of Payment on Airline Tickets

2. 1-2-3 Travel FREE - American, Northwest and US Airways Match United Promotion

3. United Airlines Testing a New Boarding Process

4. Air France Opening 1st Phase to Terminal E at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport

5. SARS Update

6. US Airways Express Begins Huntsville/New York Regional Jet Service

The Airline Reporting Corporation (ARC) will no longer allow change of payment on an airline ticket. Should you find it necessary to change your form of payment (example: change to a different credit card) World Travel will have to make the change manually adding a 5% service charge to the process.

American, Northwest and US Airways have matched the United Airlines promotion that awards travelers a free, roundtrip coach ticket within the continental U.S. if you fly three round-trip business class tickets by a specified date set by the airline. For additional rules and regulations set by each airline, please contact your World Travel representative.

United began boarding customers in four groups (1,2,3 and 4) instead of calling them by rows, in a change that helped to speed the boarding process by as much as 30% when it tested the system in Indianapolis and Chicago on June 10. The boarding passes automatically assign a boarding number in large, bold text, the airline said. The change applies to all United and United Express domestic markets, but some international locations will continue to use the row system because of airport or cultural differences.

On June 17, 2003 Air France is opening the 1st phase of their newest Terminal. Terminal E will accommodate flights from Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Newark, New York JFK and San Francisco. Also in Terminal E an additional security checkpoint lane has been created for Club 2000, Frequence Plus Rouge and Frequence Plus Bleu members. The new terminal will offer 53 check-in counters and 10 gate-parking stands. Other stages of completion will occur in 2004 & 2006.

The World Health Organization (WHO) says it is deeply concerned by the resurgence of SARS cases in Toronto, raising the possibility that a travel warning could be re-imposed on the Canadian city. Although the WHO has not yet taken that decision, 90 new probable cases of the respiratory virus have been reported in the last three weeks and health authorities in the city are again on high alert.

On June 8, 2003 US Airways Express began nonstop regional jet service between Huntsville, Alabama and New York's LaGuardia Airport. The new service is operated by US Airways Express carrier Chautauqua Airlines using Embraer-145 Regional Jets. The new daily flight departs New York at 2:05pm and arrives in Huntsville at 3:38pm. The return flight departs Huntsville at 4:10pm and arrives in New York at 7:25pm.

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