Sentences with phrase «by travel companies»

Your curious mind might force you to look for the offers given by the travel companies or explores more to get the best deal.

Sometimes, policies offered by travel companies, such as cruise lines, might be better for you, but you won't know until you compare.

In some cases, travel insurance policies offered by travel companies are four to five times more expensive than the policies offered by insurance companies.

Some U.S. airlines have already been flying to Cuba for months, but only with charter flights sold by travel companies.

In contrast, most touring in the Similans is by way of speedboats run by travel companies.

Financing by travel companies has become rare these days.

Industry folks call it «online dating aggregation,» but James Nord, founder of one such company, called Rubixx, compares its service to those offered by travel companies CheapFlights.com or Kayak where users log on, search for flights, are fed potential options from various providers and click through to the airline's site to purchase.

At Griffith University he enrolled in a communications degree but left in the final year with a journalism major when offered fulltime work by a travel company, accommodation.com.

Travel companies and airlines often take our advice into account but the decision to cancel or reschedule a flight, holiday, tour or excursion is a decision that can only be taken by the travel company and the customer.

I was scheduled to go on a group trip, but the trip was canceled by the travel company due to natural disaster.

All but $ 600 of trip fees refunded by travel company.

Not exact matches

We will work to assist all employees and contractors who may be directly impacted by the order, both those who may be traveling, as well as those currently in the United States from one of the restricted countries with Green Cards or visas,» the company told Fortune.

Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

«I've had several inquiries from Chinese interested in purchasing properties in Pyongyang, Wonsan and Sinuiju,» said the founder of INDPRK, a travel company in Dandong that runs tours to North Korea, who goes by the name Griffin Che.

We have built multiple companies, celebrated each other's weddings and children, traveled the world together, and dealt with the highs and lows of entrepreneurship side by side.

Marsha Smith, the incoming president of IKEA Canada, for instance, is starting her tenure by travelling to across the country with the goal of meeting personally with every one of the company's employees.

By building a series of underground tunnels, Musk hopes the company will create the infrastructure for new forms of transit, like Hyperloop, that will allow people to travel faster and face less congestion.

The company, which lets users earn loyalty points from check - ins, photos and updates, has been acquired by travel software company ezRez.

(Compare that to the infamously bad airline service suffered by Canadian musician Dave Carroll, whose $ 3,500 guitar was broken while travelling on United Airlines in 2009: Carroll's YouTube song about the experience, «United Breaks Guitars,» did lasting damage to the company's image.)

By minimizing travel, Clarkson says he's been able to lure middle to upper managers to the company.

The company is just starting the matching process on the new platform, but the end goal is the same one stated by CEO Brian Chesky in January, in the wake of Trump's travel ban: Airbnb aims to provide housing for 100,000 people in need over five years.

Brands include chic luggage company Away Travel (founded by Warby Parker alums) and Daniel Wellington timepieces.

They started The Bucketlist Bombshells, a company that helps millennial women build online businesses while traveling the world, by providing online courses that teach skills like website design and digital marketing.

The company created a platform aimed at simplifying the processes for travel visas, U.S. passports and other related travel documents by storing customer information securely.

In addition to helping their own employees, tech companies are offering support for others affected by Trump's travel ban.

They lived in London, where Sargent was a business psychologist for a business - training company and Farrugia was working in retail — until they left it all behind to spend a year traveling from London through Asia by land.

Similar to meal kits, the company now offers travel packages called Times Journeys, where travelers can go on far - flung tours led by the Times» foreign correspondents.

The company, launched in 2009, started by selling medical refrigerators used in labs and hospitals but recently expanded into fiber - optic devices, which heat up as light and data travel through them.

Hyperloop One, one of the companies looking to create the high - speed rail that Elon Musk outlined in 2013, on Tuesday released a video that shows what it might look like to travel by Hyperloop.

Under his leadership, Expedia's revenues grew from $ 2.1 billion in 2005 to $ 8.7 billion in 2016, and the company became the biggest online travel agency in the US by snatching up rivals Orbitz, HomeAway, Travelocity, and Hotels.com.

With 400 employees arranged in six offices around the globe, Lightspeed founder and CEO Dax Dasilva travels as light as possible, holding most of his international meetings by video conference from the company's brand new headquarters in Montreal's historic Gare Viger.

For many in tech, this travel ban hits close to home, since many of the top companies in the industry — including Google, Tesla, Uber, and Intel — were founded by immigrants.

By 2020, 50 percent of the workforce will be working remotely,» said Guissett, who came to the U.S. seven years ago when the Belgium travel tech company he was working for wanted to build out their U.S. branch in California.

Online travel services company Expedia reported a 23.2 percent rise in fourth - quarter revenue, helped by higher gross bookings.

Online travel services company Expedia did report a 23.2 percent rise in fourth - quarter revenue, helped by higher gross bookings.

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

For those who prefer a luxury experience when traveling by rail, East Japan Railway Company's Train Suite Shiki - Shima is just the ticket.

How to be prepared: If you often travel internationally, consider one of the Medicare C through J supplement (Medigap) plans sold by private companies that provide foreign coverage.

The hyperloop, a catch - all term describing the technology that's been developed by numerous companies since Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk crowdsourced the idea in 2012, resembles a bullet train that can theoretically travel at velocities nearing the speed of sound (about 700 miles per hour).

-- Dan Ruch, CEO of Rocketrip, a company which helps companies reduce travel expenses by incentivizing employees to save on their business trips

With all the innovations in space travel, Bigelow believes at least one rocket - powered transportation company will be operational by 2018.

The company also just announced the expansion of Uber Movement, a program intended to benefit urban planners and fueled by aggregated (and anonymized) Uber ride data, covering how different times and travel times can be impacted by major events and road closures.

Four out of five travelers in Asia Pacific said travel was a necessary part of life and that they're willing to prioritize time off work and set aside money for trips, according to a new study by technology provider Sabre and research firm The Futures Company.

Meanwhile, outbound travel from China grew by 142 % last year, according to the company.

And best of all, these adventures are supported by a company travel reimbursement of up to # 557 ($ 750) per year (based on time with the company).

In addition to SpaceX, the entrepreneur serves as chief executive of Tesla Motor Co., an electric car company, is chairman and co-founder of SolarCity and is working to build a high - speed «Hyperloop» transportation system, which — in theory — could revolutionize travel by cutting commute time from Los Angeles to San Francisco to 30 minutes.

At least, these were the findings of a new study conducted by EKOS on behalf of Concur, a Redmond, Wash. - based company that builds mobile tools for corporate travel.

By the end of 1996, John McManus, cofounder with his wife, Gloria, of Magellan's, a seven - year - old travel - gear catalog company, had reached the point where he could take no more.

The Canadian adventure - travel firm became one of Canada's Best Managed Companies by making positive change in the local communities it visits

So Australia's Yellow Tail Wine decided to take a road less traveled by buying up 70 local ad spots on regional markets around the U.S., which the company says will allow roughly 85 % of the country to see its commercial.