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Check out the latest, greatest deals, tips and end-o’-year reflections on KTVA.

Between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, it’s a good time to start making a list of where to go and what to do in 2012!  As part of that discussion, it’s helpful to know where we expect to see some travel bargains in January, February–and beyond. Just dreaming about the places we’ll go is reason [...]

Pay attention to these great air fare deals from USTravel. Now that the 787 is flying, we can all DREAM of when we’ll get on board. United/Continental has a bunch of these plastic high-tech birds on order (above). Call USTravel now at (800)544-2217 and lock in these low rates: Anchorage-Long Beach $336 (via Phoenix) Anchorage-LAX [...]

We had a great trip on Condor over to Europe. Back in Alaska, I’m still wrestling with the time zones–which is why I’m up typing at 4am. HA. Just in case you’re not up on Condor‘s service, they fly nonstop from Anchorage, Fairbanks and Whitehorse to Frankfurt. The prices are great. For example, fly from [...]

We all knew there would be a bucket full o’ bargains this spring. But over at USTravel , we’re just surprised it arrived so quickly. Even so, travelers will have to wait a few weeks to travel. BUY THESE FARES TODAY. There is a chance they’ll be available tomorrow, but these California deals are scheduled [...]

Just for grins, I was checking out some summertime rates to Frankfurt. Of course, we’re partial to the nonstop service provided by Condor German Airlines. But fair is fair–we checked on some other fine airlines as well. Here’s what we found: Anchorage-Frankfurt on Continental, June 7-21, 2011. 07 Jun Anchorage-Seattle-Chicago-Frankfurt: 19 hours, 7 minutes 21 [...]

Whoa. Grab this: Anchorage to Frankfurt $739 roundtrip, nonstop, all-in. Anchorage-Frankfurt Condor #6067 May 7 Frankfurt-Anchorage Condor #2066 May 24 Does it get any better? I dunno. Let’s go through the list: a. Nonstop b. Relatively cheap c. Europe Got it ? Okay. Go online and nab this deal before the folks at CONDOR change [...]

We stopped by, as we do each Wednesday afternoon at 5:00pm, to see the folks at KTVA CBS 11 here in Anchorage. Just wanted to share with viewers more detail on the upcoming flights to Frankfurt and ZUrich for the summer of 2011. Check out the video. For more information, check out the article I [...]

This is the first of several videos we’ll post from France. I had wanted to visit Avignon for some time. First, I was interested in the wonderful food and wine in the areas in and around Provence. Also, I was intrigued that Avignon once was a “Papal State” after being purchased from France. During the [...]