BREAKING NEWS!

Northwest Airlines Service to Amsterdam

Northwest will discontinue its non-stop flight from Bradley to Amsterdam effectiove Oct 1. 2009 due to fuel costs.

Free Parking No Longer Available at Tweed

Due to budget constraints, the Board of Alderman will no longer allow free or discounted parking at Tweed Airport.

AMTRAK LAUNCHES NEW SECURITY PROCEDURES

Random baggage screening conducted by Mobile Security Team

WASHINGTON -- Amtrak today announced the deployment of its new specialized Amtrak Mobile Security Team to patrol stations and trains and randomly inspect passenger baggage. The Mobile Security Team supplements ongoing patrols already in place by Amtrak to enhance the safety and security of passenger rail travel. The deployment of the Mobile Security Team and the launch of random baggage inspection are further steps in Amtrak’s ongoing efforts to strengthen rail security as a means to minimize the risk of terrorist threats. The Mobile Security Teams will ultimately be deployed nationwide. ... Read the entire news release.

New Amtrak No-Show Policy

Effective Tuesday, September 11, 2007, the Amtrak no-show policy will change as follows:
 
A passenger who does not ticket a multi-segmented reservation before the first train departs the station or who does not cancel the first segment of the reservation will forfeit all remaining reserved segments (transfers, return segments, etc). The rebooking of cancelled space will then be subject to availability.
 
Example:  A passenger who booked, but did not ticket , a morning train from Philadelphia to New York and, on the same reservation, booked an evening train from New York to Boston, will lose the reserved space from New York to Boston because the reservation was not ticketed when the first train departed Philadelphia.
 
Therefore, to avoid the cancellation of multi-segmented reservations, business travelers holding Amtrak reservations, priced with or without a corporate discount, must contact their company’s designated travel agency or Amtrak directly and change the reservation to reflect the train(s) they will actually be traveling on in order to preserve the reserved space on subsequent segments and retain any applicable corporate discounted fare. As always, for those accounts participating in an Amtrak corporate discount program, negotiated Amtrak discounts can still only be obtained by booking through a company’s designated travel management company.

IMPORTANT CHANGE TO YOUR ORBITZ FOR BUSINESS ACCOUNT!

You may have noticed a change to your Orbitz for Business account that we recently made and want to bring to your attention. Your yale.edu email address is now the exclusive login for Yale’s Orbitz for Business site and users may no longer access the Orbitz general consumer site, Orbitz.com utilizing this email address.

Employees must now enter the Orbitz.com leisure site through a personal email account (hotmail, AOL, yahoo, etc). By doing so, this will ensure that your personal bookings are kept confidential and that the Orbitz for Business site is used only for Yale business travel bookings. Reservations will be not erroneously placed on the university business site, and vice versa, as was happening when employees could toggle back and forth between the sites utilizing the same yale.edu address as their single log-on.

To maintain the integrity of our START function which is driven by the employee’s yale.edu email address, and maintain the effectiveness of our HR data feed to Orbitz for Business, we are required to make this functional revision. (Any pending trips booked on the leisure site, under Yale.edu email accounts can be accessed by contacting Orbitz for Business at 1-877-672-4891).

Thank you for your understanding in this matter. As always, if you should have any questions, please call Travel Services at 2-9962, or email us at travelservices.@yale.edu Thank you for your support!