Travel Tonic

Bringing you what’s new in travel for January 30th 2011 through January 31st 2011:

• Air miles hard to earn? Not with new card bonuses – Sean O'Neill recently posted this on This Just In… Newsweek's Travel Blog:

  This month, Steve Kamb began flying a 35,000-mile trip around the world, visiting 15 cities as different as Dublin and Bangkok, for only $418 in plane tickets. His budget travel secret? Starting in the fall of 2009, Kamb began to rack up frequent flier miles by taking advantage of credit card bonus offers and other tricks.

• InvisibleHand Alerts You When It Finds Cheaper Airfare [Downloads] – Lifehacker's Adam Dachis just posted this article:
  

  

  Browser extension InvisibleHand has long been great at subtly showing you the best prices for product searches, but now it can suggest cheaper alternatives when searching for airfare as well. More »
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  Read the rest at Lifehacker

• Havana for first-timers – travel tips and articles – Lonely Planet –
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• Cairo International Flight Information as of 31JAN11 0400GMT « AIRLINE ROUTE –
  airlineroute.net - jimyvr
  Below is 2nd update as of 0400GMT (First update was 0100GMT)
  As per 31JAN11 GDS timetable and inventory display, the following are the latest flight information to/from Cairo (including selected service in Northern Port city of Alexandria/Borg el Arab) up to the week of 31JAN11, including flight operation on 29JAN11 and 30JAN11.
  Because this post is updated at 0400GMT 31JAN11, all information listed below remains to change in short notice. Contact airline directly for latest information. AEROF..  show all text
• Six-Night Ireland Vacation Package, from $699 with Air – posted this over on Frommer's : This budget-friendly Ireland package saves you at least $100 per person on round-trip airfare and two nights' hotel, plus the deal includes a car rental and four nights at B&Bs throughout the Emerald Isle.