Huge demand overwhelms Beijing ticket system
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Huge demand for the second tranche of Beijing Olympics tickets overwhelmed the booking system, jammed telephone lines and caused lengthy queues when sales opened on Tuesday morning.
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The addition of 4,000 seats to the lower bowl at FedEx Field sparked a slew of complaints from ticket holders who feel they were misled.
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QANTAS is suffering an unexpected softening in passenger demand, particularly on international routes, as the impact of the rising global oil price starts to strike consumer spending.
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Hundreds of thousands of desperate travelers pushed their way onto trains Thursday as service resumed after the worst winter storms in decades paralyzed China
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China says it faces serious power shortages as severe winter weather causes unusually high demand.
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A registration system for Glastonbury Festival tickets, designed to frustrate touts, is to open later.
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Chinese fans packed out Beijing&#39;s 17,903-seat Capital Stadium for the capital&#39;s first taste of live NBA action Sunday night.
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British Airways struggled Tuesday to accommodate thousands of passengers affected by technical problems that canceled 21 flights, The Times of London reported.
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Despite the horror stories about heat, humidity, and pollution, the whole world still wants to go to Beijing for the Olympics. With the Games more than seven months off, tickets are difficult to find. There's so much demand that the organizers, who had planned to sell three-quarters of their supply to Chinese residents, will offer half to foreigners.
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Heavy losses hit exchanges from China to Brazil
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The perennial Olympics pariah, commonly known as the ticket scalper, is having a hard time in Athens. Scalpers normally buy hard-to-get tickets, with hopes of selling them later at highly inflated prices.
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Travel: Â· Beijing terminal to open on time and within budgetÂ· Huge pool of labourers helped speed up project
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The expense of securing the Olympic Games has become so daunting for host cities and nations that it is now time for Olympic officials to consider international cost-sharing
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Ticket prices at the 2008 Beijing Olympics will range from $3.82 to $638 when they go on sale next year.
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With the growth of small-business and independent employee travel, booking sites are scrambling to serve this market.
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Description: In the weeks leading up to the Olympic games in Athens, hotels were expecting huge crowds to flood the city. Lagging ticket sales at Olympic venues seem to have trickled into the hotel business as well, as crowds have failed to show up as ...
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The powerlessness of Beijing's estimated 65,000 taxi drivers goes to the heart of a complaint that has arisen repeatedly as China's economy moves toward free-market liberalism while its one-party government retains a monopoly on power.