May 25, 2006
George Best was Belfast’s most famous sports hero. Best was really the best! He was said to be the best footballer in the world by many. He played for Manchester United in his prime, and made up the best Man Utd side ever. Best was a superstar in the 60s. His skill on the football pitch led to his stardom off the pitch – a stardom that was to be his downfall.
George loved his flamboyant lifestyle a bit too much and became an alcoholic, and ended his footballing career at an early age. George’s alcoholism was to lead to his death. In 2002 his liver gave up, and he received a liver transplant. But with his incessant drinking even a liver transplant couldn’t keep him alive for longer than a few years. George died on 25th November 2004. The nation mourned George’s death. The Irish, English and people from both sides of the divide in Belfast lined the streets at his funeral.
Until now Belfast city airport had no other name than “Belfast city airport”, and it was decided to commemorate Belfast’s Best by naming this airport after George. George Best Belfast city airport is Belfast’s second airport. Belfast’s international airport (Aldergrove airport) is situated 20 miles outside of the city centre. Aldergrove is the main airport serving Belfast, and although it is 20 miles away from the city centre it only costs £20 to get into the city centre using a taxi from Gransha Taxis Belfast. Gransha taxis is a top Belfast taxi company, situated in west Belfast. Gransha taxis is west Belfast’s biggest taxi company, and one of the biggest in the whole of Belfast. It takes 20 minutes for a George Best Belfast city airport to get from Belfast international airport to west Belfast, and about 30 minutes to get to the city Centre.
Belfast is situated on the north-east of Ireland. Belfast is a beautiful city, and is quickly becoming a major tourist centre in northern Europe.
Visit here for more information about Belfast
Visit here for more information about George Best Airport
PRWEB May 25, 2006
May 24, 2006
RD2, Inc., a Dallas-based web design and development agency, and Southwest Airlines (NYSE: LUV) have teamed up to launch the first-ever official corporate weblog (blog) in the airline industry. “Nuts About Southwest”, at http://blogsouthwest.com , features regular posts from Southwest employees at all levels of operations and management.
The goal of a blog on any business website is to attract an audience of
users educated on subjects familiar to the company or its industry. The
ultimate result is a community of users who perceive that business’ site to
be an authoritative, rich source of knowledge that is constantly being
refreshed with up-to-date, pertinent information.
“Southwest’s interest in corporate blogging is a testament to its
forward thinking in business and culture,” noted Chris Ronan, President of
RD2, Inc. “Southwest Airlines now joins other blogging Fortune 500
innovators like IBM and General Motors in providing their customers a
platform to create a community around their brand.” Readers have the
opportunity to respond to posts made by Southwest employees, creating rich
interactive dialogues and forming unique customer relationships.
“We’re very excited about this new way to bring the Southwest Airlines
culture to our customers,” said Angela Vargo of Southwest Airlines. “The
‘Nuts About Southwest’ blog will give Southwest customers another peek into
our operations, daily work life, and people.”
“Nuts About Southwest” highlights design that embodies the Southwest
spirit of fun, friendliness, warmth, and efficiency. Behind the design lies
cutting edge technology in HTML, CSS, and content management. “We chose
open source content management system WordPress to power the RD2 blog
because of its emphasis on reliability, adaptability, and usability,”
stated Ronan. “It is important that the tool running the blog be easy to
use for all authors.”
RD2, Inc. previously collaborated with Southwest Airlines to launch a
blog for Southwest’s innovative “Adopt-A-Pilot” program, where pilots in
the program author posts geared towards fifth-grade students in the
program. Pilot authors contribute stories from their flights,
aviation-related lessons, and inside information on Southwest Airlines. The
Adopt-A-Pilot blog is located at http://adoptapilot.blogs.com .
A blog is a web site with regular, dated entries which are displayed in
reverse chronological order. Blog entries could be thought of as
conversation starters. When posting to the blog, the conversation does not
stop. Readers can contribute their thoughts on the entry.
About RD2, Inc.
RD2, Inc. (http://www.rd2inc.com ) is a next generation studio of
innovators and artists offering strategic web, print and integrated
marketing communications. The RD2 approach of Research, Design and Develop,
integrates objective research with aesthetics to develop compelling brand
solutions that position RD2 clients as industry leaders. Clients include
Entrust, First Franklin, Hotels.com, LogLogic, Rough Creek Lodge, Southwest
Airlines, Trammell Crow and Verizon.
DALLAS, May 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/
Its a new way to buy and sell air charter. Did you know that there are empty charter jets flying around everyday? Did you also know that those air charter companies would love to sell you a flight on that empty jet?
At CharterMatrix.com the idea is to bring air charter to the general population. If that is possible they are doing their best to make it happen. A few years ago they noticed a trend in air charter of selling empty legs to thrifty buyers. An empty leg is an air charter flight that is paid for by a customer but no persons are on board the jet. Example: a customer needs to fly from Florida to NY, but that customer will not be flying home for several days or weeks. So, the jet then must return to FL because it does have other trips later in the week. Now we have what is called an “empty leg” that can be sold for less money than normal because the customer who flew the jet up to NY had to pay for the jet to return to FL empty. At CharterMatrix.com you can buy those empty flights for a discount. We also look for this trend to grow and it may also become a very large market as VLJ’s hit the market this year and next. A VLJ “very light jet” is a new type of jet being built by several new companies hoping to make air travel common for most all of Americans. The VLJ is cheap to buy, cheap to fly, and still gets people to where they want to go. When the VLJ is offered for air taxi it will also have empty legs and will fit perfectly on CharterMatrix.com. Keep an eye out for the VLJ and if you currently fly on a private aircraft then Charter Matrix is the web site for you.
The web site makes all of this possible with a simple search on interactive maps. Just point and click your way to a charter flight. If you need a flight departing Florida, then you simply click on the state of FL and bam mm up comes a list of empty legs departing that state in order of date. The web site also offers region to region searches and other tools to help you locate both air charter companies or private jets. If you don’t find the flight for you its also possible that you can submit your trip request to the auction. Much like eBay, you post your flight and then air charter companies bid for it. Visit the web site and take a look at the future. Its how more and more people travel these days.
Orange County, CA (PRWEB) May 20, 2006