Cheap Air Fares – Your Best Option To Fly Comfortably Within Budget

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Sep 292018
 

In today’s fast world, people prefer traveling by flights more than railways. Keeping this huge demand in mind, aviation companies of this country have started offering great discounts to reach the middle class people of our nation – the majority! So, the more people prefer air travel the better services the airline companies are offering. Moreover, the rising competition among the airline companies have forced them lower the ticket prices by a great extent. So, the common man who once dreamt of air traveling is now doing it every now and then. Thanks to the competition among the airline companies, all of them want to grab others’ market and get more passengers. So, if you are in search of cheap air fares, you have a lot of options in hand.
However, ‘cheap air fares’ does not mean you are traveling by economy or ‘cattle’ class. This is a common misconception people often make. Many reputed travel websites give great discounts on executive class and business class seats. We all know, first class tickets are expensive, and you are paying money to get the best comfort and to be treated royally. What if you get discounts on these tickets? Sounds more beneficial? That is what cheap air fares stand for. This is the best way to get the best deals without any extra expenditures.
Going for cheap air fares does not mean the service quality will be inferior. If you book your flight tickets online in advance, it will not only help you save a lot of time and effort, but will give you great discounts as well. As mentioned earlier, all the airlines are constantly trying to attract passengers by offering beneficial deals, you get the chance to enjoy the benefits because of this. So, you get the chance to reach the place fast and comfortably without burning holes in your pocket.
Thanks to the ever increasing number of airline companies, there are hundreds of different routes for domestic flights available these days. This advancement has reduced the importance of railways that was once considered as the only domestic travel option in all over India. Now, people have learned, saving time is more valuable than saving a few hundred rupees. This is what the actual difference between a train ticket and cheap air fares are. This affordability has become a blessing for students, and travelers with a limited budget.

Know How Your Business is Faring in Market with Survey Tools

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Sep 282018
 

Survey tools play a very important role in the creation of effective surveys. It helps the organization in presenting a well-structured survey in front of its respondents.
The increasing competitions amongst the business have actually made things bit difficult for the organization to make their presence felt in the market. Today s cut throat competitive environment has decreased the sustaining chances of businesses in the market. This is the only reason why many organizations spend billions of dollars in improving their marketing strategies and in finding out the techniques to judge how its products and services are faring in the market. And, at such circumstances, online survey tool plays a very important part in helping the organization to know how its products and services are doing in market, and also helps them in finding out how to improve upon them.
It has been proved beyond doubt that satisfied customers contribute a lot in the success of any business. And, to gain the confidence and satisfaction of the customers, organizations spend huge amount to find out how its customers feel, and what can be done to make its products and services more useful to them. Tools specifically designed to formulate surveys play a vital role in carrying out the customer satisfaction surveys. These tools are precise and flexible enough to capture quality feedback from the respondents. These tools are gifted with endless features, like:
Dynamic and Flexible surveys
Surveys created should be able to exhibit what they stand for and should include questions that are important for gathering quality feedback from the respondents and employees. These tools help in placing dynamic templates and flexible surveys in no time. It also helps in updating various features such as colors, header graphics, font and many other things.
Skipping Logic
During the creation and designing of complex surveys, the tool helps in skipping the entire section consisting of questions that don t apply. The skip logic incorporated in tools helps the user to define and skip certain portions that are not applicable in the surveys.
Randomize the Response
These tools help in automatic randomization of the survey parts by making it possible for the user to conduct multiple surveys with same set of survey parameters.
You might come across certain other features and many advantages, but unless you will not follow basic guidelines of survey creation, you will not be able to achieve the main objective of your research. So, make the most of survey tools and collect quality data from the respondents to pull up your business.

Know How Your Business is Faring in Market With Online Survey Tool

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Sep 272018
 

An Online Survey Tool is simply great if the organization wants to hold market study. It has added a great speed in the process of market research.
Gone are the days when organizations used phone solicitors and junk mails to find out how their products and services are faring in the market, as today the process of data collection has become faster and more focused. The collection of information or feedback from the customers has been going on for the years. It is just that the process of collection which is survey has become more advanced with development of essential and effective survey tools.
The surveys conducted by the organization are basically to achieve three most basic targets – one to enhance the IT efficiency in order to make problem solving process faster, two to ease the data collection process and third to make the decision execution process easier and accurate. It is not the power of surveys that are responsible for not delivering accurate results, but the mode and the tools used in it are responsible for it. Therefore, in business, it becomes essential to make the proper use of effective tools to get accurate and quality feedback from the respondents that further helps in improvising the offerings of the organization.
But, even if you make the use of advanced tools, you still need to follow the basics of doing a survey for the internet respondent. It is one of the most important requirements if you want to achieve the objective of the research held.
To begin with it, you need to be clear and focused on your study objectives. It should be ensured that all your steps and methods are heading towards your goal only. The accurate result will not be obtained until you will focus on your targeted respondents. So, make sure to send your surveys to the potential respondent only.
Once you have identified you goal and audience, focus on the formulation of questions. Make sure that your questions are direct, concise, engaging and easy to understand. Always try to focus on formulating your questionnaire in closed-ended form rather than open-ended form. You can make the use of templates provided to phrase your questions with their samples. A good formulation of a survey questionnaire will allow you to get quality feedback at faster pace.
So, make the most of it and you will surely get to experience several advantages of Online survey tool.

Fly at Affordable Fares with GoAir

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Sep 262018
 

The GoAir Airline has its Head quarter in Mumbai the economic and the financial capital of India. The GoAir Airline was established in the year 2004 in the month of June by the Wadia Group. The Wadia Group is the main owner of Britannia Industries, the famous confectionary group and Bombay Dyeing. The Go Airline operates in many parts of the country and offers the best of services to its customer s at the most reasonable price and match the global standard. GoAir is a privately owned airline with the facility of low priced ticket and good travel service and is giving good competition to the other domestic airlines. This air carrier tries its best to provide the flight tickets at the most reasonable cost in comparison to other airlines. The air travel is made comfortable and affordable for the travelers in GoAir Airline.
This is one of the airlines of India which tries to cater to the needs of the passengers and endow them with numerous facilities at the best possible rates. The Airlines authorities make sure that all the fundamental requirements are fulfilled and the travelers do not face any problems and discomfort. They are provided with snacks and drinks and the music facility too is offered. The services of the Go Air commenced with 2 leased Airbus A320s in the year 2005. The airline at that time provided a single class, this 180 seater cheap ticket air travel was made to some thirteen cities which comprise of Jammu and Kashmir. The GoAir fleet comprises of 7 Airbus A320-200s, and they have the target to make an expansion to 33 aircrafts in the period of 3 years and at that time it would be covering the key destinations of India.
This is a fly smart Airline, the route network of GoAir expands to the well known holiday and important business destinations which are situated all around the country. This airline provides to its passengers the air travel at the most reasonable price. The chief destinations of GoAir are as follows: New Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai, Kolkata, Goa, Pune. GoAir provides the worth for money, without compromising on either security or the facilities and the conveniences which it provides. Adding together some new places to its accessible list of well-liked and accepted areas, the airways would soon envelop the routes like Aurangabad, Kolhapur, Bhopal, Kozhikode, Rajkot, Madurai and Bhavnagar etc.

Retail Stocks: Faring Well Despite Jobs and Housing

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Sep 252018
 

So far, even without strong job growth and with continued weakness in housing, consumers continue to spend, which is helping to drive the economic renewal, albeit sluggishly. This is positive and clearly encouraging once the jobs and housing areas improve. The Fed realizes this.
The headline Retail Sales reading for May fell 0.2%, above the estimate of negative 0.7%, but was lower than the downward revised 0.3% in April.
Excluding the auto portion, Retail Sales increased a slightly better than expected 0.3%, albeit it was lower than the downward revised 0.5% in May.
On the plus side, consumers are spending, but the lack of consistency is troublesome. And given that gasoline prices are high, it reduces the disposable income consumers have to spend on goods and services. You probably won t buy that DVD player you had been eyeing. This may not sound like a big deal, but think about it this way. Not buying that DVD player has a trickle-down effect as far as spending and negatively impacts total spending.
But this is not to say you should avoid retail. The key for success is selective picking.
My investment advice and best stock advice to you would be to stick with the leading discount bellwether retail stocks.
In the large-cap area, examples of these include Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE/WMT), Target Corporation (NYSE/TGT), and Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ/COST).
Costco reported a 13% jump in its key same-store sales reading in May, above the 11.2% estimate polled by Thomson Reuters. Net sales for May surged 17% year-over-year. The results are consistent and continue to show steady growth; but, for that extra bit of growth, you should look at the smaller discount retail companies.
Costco, for instance, has a market cap of $35.02 billion and is estimated to report sales growth of 12.5% and 7.9% for the FY11 and FY12, respectively.
For comparison, take a look at small-cap PriceSmart, Inc. (NASDAQ/PSMT), an operator of 28 warehouse clubs in 11 countries in Central America and the Caribbean. PriceSmart reported a booming 19.0% increase in its same-store sales in May, along with an 18.7% year-over-year rise in May net sales. The reading was the 19th straight monthly increase. These numbers are well above the growth metrics for Costco. Consider the comparative sales growth for PriceSmart, which is 16.80% and 7.90%, for the FY11 and FY12, respectively. The growth estimates are probably conservative and could really take off if the expansion continues.
Another interesting discounter is large-cap Dollar General Corporation (NYSE/DG), which operates a staggering 9,300 stores across 35 states. Dollar has reasonable valuation and above-average price appreciation potential for investors.
And when housing picks up, I expect spending to continue to increase, especially on non-essential goods and services reflected by Durable Goods.
It does appear that a reversal is occurring in retailing. The key is to look for same-store sales growth in retailers that sell non-essential goods. Increases here could mean that consumers are spending on goods and services that are non-essential. These include electronics, appliances, furniture, autos, and other big-ticket items. For a contrarian pick in electronics, take a look at Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE/BBY), which has rallied since reporting weak Q1 results.
My favorite in the retail space continues to be the discounters and big-box stores. The big-box stores are now selling a broad range of electronics and are adding to their product lines. This will offer consumers a one-stop place for shopping and make more money for these companies.
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MIFARE: SMALL CHIP CHANGED THE WORLD OF AUTO FARE COLLECTION

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Sep 242018
 

MIFARE is a Semiconductor under the trademark NXP Semiconductors which are a array of chips commonly used in contactless smart cards and other proximity cards. The trademark of this technology is owned and registered by NXP Semiconductors (divided from Philips Electronics in the year 2006), it has its headquarters in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, and its basic business sites are available in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, Hamburg, and Germany. MIFARE technology is accepted for most of the contactless smart card works all over the globe and thus, it is seen as the most successful platform in the world of automatic fare collection. Additionally, its luring and persuasive product mix includes the best solutions for other applications like loyalty, road tolling (toll tax), access management and gaming (fun cards for games like ice hockey).
The name of Mifare cards has come from the phrase MIkron Fare Collection System , which is available in various kinds of contactless cards: 1. MIFARE Ultralight: which was introduced in 2001 2. MIFARE Ultralight C: which was introduced in 2008 3. MIFARE Classic: which was introduced in 1994 4. MIFARE Plus: which was introduced in 2008 5. MIFARE DESFire: which was introduced in 2002 6. SmartMX: 7. MIFARE DESFire EV1: which was introduced in 2006 8. MIFARE SAM AV2: which was introduced in 2010 9.
Origin of MIFARE Mikron developed this system called MIFARE; therefore, the name stands for MIkron FARE-collection System. In the year 1998, it was acquired by Philips Company. After which, Hitachi went into contract for the license of MIFARE with Philips for introducing and to develop the solutions for contactless smart card for NTT’s IC telephone card, which started in the year1999 and ended in the year 2006. Motorola also tried hard to develop a series of chips like MIFARE for their wired-logic model but at last they had no option except giving up. Afterwards, 3 parties joined in the project of NTT contactless IC telephone card; namely: Tokin-Tamura-Siemens, Hitachi (under Philips contract for the technical support), and Denso (a Motorola s only product).initially, NTT demanded for 2 versions of the chip, i.e. first is a wired-logic chip (similar to MIFARE Classic) having very little memory but large memory capacity. Hitachi used to develop only large memory versions and left parts of the memory to actually fit for the versions of small memory. NXP developed and licensed MIFARE Plus and MIFARE DESFire to Renesas Technology in the year 2008. And in the year 2010, NXP technologies developed and licensed MIFARE to Gemalto. In the year 2011, NXP technologies developed and licensed Oberthur to make use of MIFARE in SIM cards. All these licensees had been developing Near Field Communication products also.

Emirates Slashes Fuel Surcharge, Etihad Offers Special Promotion Fare

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Sep 232018
 

Emirates, the largest airline in the Middle East, has ensured that holidaymakers this summer have a reason to smile.
The airline announced on Sunday the withdrawal of its fuel surcharge on all of its flight tickets as the oil prices went tumbling down recently. With this move, Emirates hopes to attract holiday travellers during the peak travel season.
Tim Clark, President of Emirates Airlines, was quoted by different news portals as stating, “In line with the recent decrease in fuel prices, Emirates has removed its fuel surcharge on all tickets.”
“The removal of this surcharge reflects our longstanding commitment to our customers. We promised our customers from the outset that we would eliminate the surcharge as soon as it was commercially viable and this has now been done. We continue to closely monitor the situation,” Tim Clark continued.
The slashing of air fares is surely a welcome announcement for vacationers who were hoping to book tickets on cheap flights. Emirates, an airline with its hub at Dubai airport, may not be known for its cheap flights but the decline in airfares is surely going to attract passengers who prefer luxury along with some affordability.
It was on April 18 that Emirates announced its latest fuel surcharge on flight tickets. While announcing the hike, the Emirates’ spokesperson had stated, “Due to the current volatility of oil prices, Emirates is introducing a fuel surcharge to reflect the substantial recent increases in our fuel costs.”
The spokesperson was additionally quoted as saying, “Emirates has already incurred substantial costs by absorbing the recent price rises, but the surcharge gives us the ability to respond faster to market conditions, rather than a lengthier process of incorporating them into fares.”
However, Emirates’ this particular fuel surcharge lasted only three month, much to the advantage of the travellers.
Another major Middle East airline, Etihad Airways, also announced a new sales promotion offers for its UAE and GCC based travellers. The new promotional offer allows its travellers to fly cheap as the airline is offering return economy class air fares with up to 40 per cent discount on regular air fares for the month of May for journeys to be completed in May.
“Last week we were recognised as the Middle East’s Leading Airline at the region’s World Travel Awards, so we are very excited to offer these sale fares to complement the win, designed to help all our UAE based customers choose their perfect holiday or short break during May,” Hareb Al Muhairi, Etihad Airways’ Vice President Sales UAE was quoted as saying by various news websites.
On the other hand, travel experts believe that not many carriers are going to follow Emirates and Etihad Airways in terms of slashing air fares.