MSNBC writes: Simply astounding round-trip airfares to New Zealand. Qantas Airlines undercuts Air New Zealand’s historic Kiwi fares—grab ‘em up quickly! Records are being broken every day. On Friday, we put out a special edition of this newsletter just to let you in on the scoop that Air New Zealand was dropping airfares to historic lows: a mere $559 for a round-trip flight between Los Angeles and Auckland. Well, it looks like rival liner Qantas reads MSNBC travel, too, because its now undercut Air NZ, and how! Qantas has dropped its fare on this route to a jaw-dropping $498 round-trip. [More]
Day: September 18, 2003
Morvan writes: As part of the advance promotion for ROTK, La Francse des Jeux is doing a “scratch lottery” game based on LOTR. The principle is simple: for 2 €, you can buy a ticket on which is a picture from the movie and a scratch area shaped like the One Ring. You win the sum according to the number of rings you discover. Wins go from 2 € (one ring) to 10 000 € (six rings). You can view the tickets here. [More] [Ad]
Carlene Cordova writes: As you may or may not know – the “Ringers: Lord of the Fans” production crew is heading off to Jolly old England! We’ll be interviewing famous authors like Terry Pratchett, shooting Tolkien’s old stomping grounds in Birmingham, and visiting Oxonmoot in Oxford. We’ll also be interviewing the leadership of The Tolkien Society, lots of fans, some Tolkien scholars and more!
It should be a very productive and promising trip. We’ll be traveling across the English countryside in our own version of “The Mystery Machine.” We’ve even secured the generous services of an wisecracking Scottish driver/audio technician/”old” gaffer/ general dogsbody. who understands how to negotiate the “wrong” side of the road. With the help of our good friend Arathorn, we’ll be updating our site with a sort of BLOG (weblog) of our travels. Hopefully this will happen daily! So, do check the site to see what we’re up to. It should prove entertaining. [Ringers]
Christian writes: Today, Germany’s Cinemaxx, one of the biggest chain of multiplexes, has begun to sell tickets for the first week of ROTK. While these tickets are for the regular screenings of the movie, a few tickets for the triple feature (all three movies in a row beginning at 5pm on 16th) are still available.
Lady Elira writes: At handbag.com there is a poll to vote for the top 20 men of the year. Orlando Bloom (Legolas) is currently number 4 and Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) is rated number 2. [More]
(And yet somehow I can still sleep at night knowing I’m not on that list -Xo)
Mary writes: I just got my AmEx statement and there is this little blurb about some type of promotion: “Your request for music begins with Blue. This month Warner Music Presents has put together an exclusive sweepstakes package celebrating the release of ‘The Return of the King’ and its Howard Shore-scored soundtrack. As always it’s just for Blue from American Express Cardmembers. Each month you’ll have a chance to win everything from trips to concert tickets to exclusive autograph items…Each month brings a new offer, so don’t forget to check back often.” [More]