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mexblogme-blog · 6 years ago

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PIA Online Reservation and Ticket Booking With Malik Express - Discounted

Pakistan international airlines (PIA) is the national airline of Pakistan. The main hub of PIA is Karachi whereas Lahore and Islamabad serve as secondary hubs.

PIA airline started operations in October 1946, as Orient Airways. After the independence of Pakistan, Orient Airways shifted their operations to Pakistan. In 1955, it was nationalized and merged with other airlines. After merging with other airlines Pakistan International Airlines Corporation came into existence.

PIA is the largest airline of Pakistan and it is also one of the earliest airlines of South Asia. It has a fleet of 33 airplanes that are serving, including Airbus A-320, Boeing 777 and has 5 airplanes on reserve. PIA operates round about 100 flights on daily bases.

Pakistan International Airline is one of the well-known airlines in Pakistan. It has some major achievements like

First non-communist airline entered to China

Second Asian airline to get jet plane

First Asian airline to introduce auto-ticketing facility

PIA Reservation, Ticketing and Online Booking

Malik Express as a member of IATA has a partnership with PIA. We serve our customers with ticketing facility, online booking and online PIA reservation. We always try to keep our customer updated about the PIA flight schedule and PIA ticket rates. If you are willing to save your money and time do not get worried, we are here to serve you with the best.

Destinations Served by PIA airlines

PIA serves at both international and national destinations. PIA flies to 25 countries across Asia, Europe and North America and 24 cities across Pakistan.

International Destinations

The airline cover large range of international destinations including famous tourist destinations. The famous tourist destinations attract most of the tourist to travel with PIA at low prices. It also give an ease to business travelers that travels outside the Pakistan. The international destinations include:

Afghanistan - Kabul

Bangladesh - Dhaka

Canada - Toronto

Chin - Beijing

Denmark - Copenhagen

France - Paris

India - Delhi and Mumbai

Iraq - Najaf

Italy - Milan

Japan - Tokyo

Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur

Norway - Oslo

Oman - Muscat

Qatar - Doha

Saudia Arabia - Damman, Jeddah, Madinah, Riyadh

Spain - Barcelona

Thailand - Bangkok

UAE - Abu Dhabi, Duabi, Sharjah

United Kingdom - Birmingham, Manchester, London

Domestic Destinations

The airline also cover large number of domestic destinations. PIA is the best option for people who are planning to explore Northern areas of Pakistan. Or if someone has to attend business meeting on urgent bases. The domestic destinations include:

Bahawalpur

Chitral

Dadu

Dalbandin

Dera Ghazi Khan

Faislabad

Gilgit

Gwadar

Islamabad/Rawalpindi

Kadanwari

Karachi

Lahore

Moenjodaro

Multan

Panjgur

Peshawar

Quetta

Rahim Yar Khan

Skardu

Sialkot

Sawan

Sukkur

Turbat

Zamzama

Zhob

Baggage Allowance

Baggage allowance on PIA vary, depending on travel route and travel class. You may carry some Baggage free of charge and that amount will be on your ticket. On usual bases Pakistan international airlines allow 20kg of baggage allowance. You will have to pay extra for the carriage of excess baggage according to the airline policy.

Buy PIA Ticket with Malik Express – Get 5% Discount

If you are eager to travel within and outside the Pakistan, buy your PIA ticket through Malik Express. Contact us now to avail 5% discount, latest deals by PIA and much more. We offer several deals such as

Seasonal deals - summer deals and winter deals

Malik Express offers different seasonal deals to their customers. We always feel happy when our customers travel on behalf of us and when they get more and more discounted fares. During peak seasons we offer 10% discounted rates to our customers.

Global deals - Canada, Europe. Golf and UK

We also offer global deals to our customers like

Student Deal for Canada and Europe

Students who are willing to go Canada and Europe for study purpose. We offer 10% discount on student deal.

Gulf and KSA

We offer senior citizen discount and student discount for gulf countries.

UK and Ireland

Malik Express offer 25% discount for a group of 10 students traveling to UK and Ireland for studies.

For more details or inquiry about

PIA flight booking

PIA airline ticket

PIA Fares

Flight Schedule

Flight Status

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recentanimenews · 6 years ago

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Cheerleading TV Anime Anima Yell! Premiere Set for October 7

The official website for the upcoming TV anime adaptation of Tsukasa Unohana's cheerleading-themed four panel manga Anima Yell! announced today that it is set to premire on Tokyo MX, BS11, and AT-X on October 7, 2018.

【放送時間決定！！】そしてTVアニメ『アニマエール！』が【10月7日より】放送開始決定！！放送時間はこちらになります！！ TOKYO MX…毎週日曜 24：00～ BS11…毎週日曜 24：00～ AT-X…毎週日曜 23：30～https://t.co/KKhYnppB7L #アニマエール pic.twitter.com/BQaheHcYXU

— TVアニメ『アニマエール！』 (@animayell_anime) 2018年8月28日

29-year-old Eriko Matsui (Nao Kamiya in The Idolm@ster Cinderella Girls) is added as the voice of

Ms. Inukai, the protagonist Kohane's homeroom teacher who helps her effort to establish the cheerleading

club at school.

【新キャラ＆キャスト解禁】 TVアニメ『アニマエール！』、こはねたちの担任、犬養先生役に松井恵理子さんが決定????！！そしてキャラクタービジュアルも解禁！！いよいよTVアニメ放送まで約1か月、チア部5人以外のキャラにもご期待ください！！https://t.co/RkhmJ2BvpE #アニマエール pic.twitter.com/ML3sR15ITX

— TVアニメ『アニマエール！』 (@animayell_anime) 2018年8月28日

And an advance screening event for its first two episodes will be held at Toho Cinemas Hibiya in Tokyo

at 16:00 on September 30. The five main voice cast and Matsu will also join for a stage talk show.

Pre-reservation for the 2,000 yen ticket will be accepted on Ticket Pia from 11:00 on September 1.

【先行上映会開催決定】さらに10月7日からの放送に先立ち9/30（日）に先行上映会開催決定！！第1話2話の上映とチア部5人のキャストと犬養先生役松井恵理子さんのトークショー！！チケット申し込みは今週9/1（土）からとなりますので奮ってご参加ください！！https://t.co/A295qsbiV7 #アニマエール pic.twitter.com/y6P2qz93zQ

— TVアニメ『アニマエール！』 (@animayell_anime) 2018年8月28日

The manga has been serialized in Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara Carat since April 2016 and its

next third tankobon volume is set to be released on September 27, 2018.

The story centers on Kohane Hatoya, who loves to support people. Two weeks before her graduation

from junior high school, she saw a group of cheerleaders who were cheering baseball teams at the river

area and was fascinated by their performance. Since then, all of the world inside her have been changed.

When entering her high school, she is discouraged by the fact that the school doesn't have a cheerleading

club. But after meeting with Hizume Arima, a member of the club Kohane saw two weeks ago, she feels

it is a destiny and decides to establish a cheerleading club by herself.

1st PV

youtube

Key visual

ＴＶアニメ『アニマエール！』は鳩谷こはね役の尾崎由香さんをはじめとした今をときめく豪華キャスト陣×動画工房さんによるアニメーション制作で10月放送開始!! 詳細は公式Twitter（@animayell_anime）や公式サイト（https://t.co/WWLjU7P69i）をチェック！コミックスは１，２巻が絶賛発売中です!!(P) pic.twitter.com/L2YosjE0Gh

— まんがタイムきらら編集部 (@mangatimekirara) 2018年7月20日

Main staff:

Director: Masako Sato (Haikyu! episode director)

Series composition/script: Fumihiko Shimo (Miss caretaker of Sunohara-sou)

Character design: Manamu Amasaki (NEW GAME! chief animation director)

Anime Production: Doga Kobo (Himouto! Umaru-chan)

Main voice cast:

Kohane Hatoya: Yuka Ozaki (Serval in Kemono Friends)

Hizume Arima: Yuina Yamada (Michiru Kouda in Idol Time Pripara)

Uki Sawatari: Mikako Izawa (Moeko Tokita in Wakaba Girl)

Kotestu Tatezima: Tomori Kusunoki (Llenn in Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online)

Kana Ushiku: Haruka Shiraishi (Kirie Motoba in Himouto! Umaru-chan)

Source: TV anime "Anima Yell!" offcial website/Twitter

©Tsukasa Unohana, Houbunsha/Anime Yell! production Committee

By: [email protected]

#Anime #News #Latest in Anime News by Crunchyroll!

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nsula · 5 years ago

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Dinner Theatre will present ‘Great American Trailer Park Musical’

NATCHITOCHES – Northwestern State University’s Department of Theatre and Dance will present “The Great American Trailer Park Musical,” a Granny-slappin’ good time dinner theatre, July 24-27 and July 31-Aug. 3. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. with the dinner and show beginning at 6 p.m.

Reservations are required.

“The Great American Trailer Park Musical” is a two-act musical, written by David Nehls and Betsy Kelso. It explores the relationships between the tenants at the Armadillo Acres Trailer Park in Florida, particularly between Pippi, "the stripper on the run," the Dr. Phil-loving agoraphobic Jeannie and Jeannie's tollbooth-collector husband Norbert. It was performed in the first annual New York Music Theater Festival in 2004 and Off-Broadway in 2005.

The cast includes Adele Hebert of Lafayette as Pickles, Chase Crane of Livingston as Norbert, Jade Duthu of Marrero as Jeannie, Kristie Contreary of Geismar as Linoleum, Mary-Scott Pourciau of Baton Rouge as Pippi, Milla Gonzales of Bossier City as Betty and Ricky Hernandez of Las Vegas, Nevada, as Duke.

Pia Wyatt, professor of Theatre and Dance, is director. Krislyn Mardis of Choudrant is stage manager and Je’Breanne Morgan of Plaquemine is assistant stage manager and sound designer. Elizabeth Guy of Anacoco is costume designer.

Tickets are $30, which includes the meal and show. The meal will include soup, salad, an entrée, dessert, tea and coffee. Dress is casual and the show is appropriate for all ages.

For more information or to make reservations, call (318) 357-4483, or visit https://capa.nsula.edu/theatre/season-tickets to order tickets online.

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sportsandevetstickets-blog · 5 years ago

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Black Ferns ready for Rugby World Cup rematch

Four new caps and two returning players from the 2017 Rugby World Cup winning side have been named in the Black Ferns to play Canada on Friday afternoon Saturday morning New Zealand Rugby as part of the Women’s Rugby Super Series 2019. Fans can buy Rugby World Cup Final Tickets online.

Tapsell 20 has been a standout for her province where she has established herself as the most prolific try-scorer in North Harbor women’s Rugby history.

The Bay of Plenty pair of hooker Luka Connor, loose forward Karli Faneva and Counties Manukau halfback Arihiana Marino Tauhinu have also all been named to make their Test debuts from the reserves. Olivia Ward Duin is bracketed with Leilani Perese at this stage.

Black Ferns Head Coach Glenn Moore said the coaching team had been watching Tapsell closely for the past two years.

“She’s a very physical player and a good ball carrier and she came through strongly in the match against the Barbarians. Pia thoroughly deserves her start.”

Moore special declaration of Marino Tauhinu who spent time with the Black Ferns without taking the field in the past saying she had earned her recall through hard work for her province.

Prop Toka Natua and Centre Carla Hohepa will wear the black jersey for the first time since the 2017 Women’s Rugby World Cup final in Belfast.

“Carla is a very experienced player and we’ve always believed she is world class. She’s worked hard to get back in great physical shape and shown some good signs in all the lead up games. She’s also part of our leadership group and is influential on and off the field.”

Moore said Natua also from Waikato had got her selection in a very competitive position.

“We’ve decided to go with Toka in this instance. She was the player of the World Cup Final she’s had a year off she’s back and we want to see what she brings.”

The Black Ferns play Canada in their first match of the Women’s Rugby Super Series 2019 a series which also includes USA, France and England. Moore said his team last played Canada in 2017 at the World Cup and he expected them to be big, strong and fast.

“We know Canada has one of the best scrums if not the best scrum in the world and we know they like to be physical. They’ve certainly got pace, so we expect them to bring a lot to the game. We’ve recovered well from our travel and have been preparing for this for months now. Everyone can’t wait to get out there and play.”

When the two sides last clashed in 2017, the Black Ferns ran out 48-5 winners. The match will kick off at 11AM Saturday morning NZT.

Black Ferns: 15 Selica Winiata, 14 Renee Wickliffe, 13 Carla Hohepa, 12 Chelsea Alley, 11 Ayesha Leti-I’iga, 10 Ruahei Demant, 9 Kendra Cocksedge, 8 Pia Tapsell, 7 Les Elder (C), 6 Charmaine McMenamin, 5 Charmaine Smith, 4 Eloise Blackwell, 3 Aleisha-Pearl Nelson, 2 Te Kura Ngata Aerengamate, 1 Toka Natua. Reserves 16 Luka Connor, 17 Phillipa Love, 18 Leilani Perese Olivia Ward Duin, 19 Karli Faneva, 20 Marcelle Parkes, 21 Arihiana Marion Tauhinu, 22 Krysten Cottrell, 23 Alena Saili.

Get latest updates of the Rugby World Cup Tickets from our trusted online ticketing platform. Rugby fanatics can book tickets on reliable rates from our online ticketing market place.

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phgq · 4 years ago

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Giant lantern display adapts to new normal

#PHinfo: Giant lantern display adapts to new normal

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga, Dec. 17 (PIA) -- Giant Lantern Festival (GLF) 2020 switches to “new-normal style” for its nightly exhibition from December 17 to January 3. Robinsons Land Corporation Regional Operations Manager Jodee Arroyo shared that the evening display is exclusively drive-in, and no walk-in guests will be allowed. “The corporation is so glad that we are still able to continue the yearly GLF tradition despite the COVID-19 pandemic. However, we have to follow certain health protocols for us to be able to watch our lanterns. We are happy to welcome you here at Robinsons, the home of the giant lanterns,” she said. To witness the “Ligligan Parul”, advance reservation should be made online at www.giantlanterns.com or onsite at Robinsons Movieworld ticket booth, second floor Robinsons Starmills, City of San Fernando, Pampanga which is open daily from 12:00PM to 6:00PM.

Robinsons Land Corporation Regional Operations Manager Jodee Arroyo reminds the public of the protocols to be followed in line with the nightly exhibit of the giant lanterns. (Jag Lyra D. Costamero/PIA 3)

Only 200 cars are to be accommodated every show as one registration card corresponds to one slot. “Those who would go to the festival are not allowed to get off their cars or remove their face masks and face shields. Those 14 years old and below, and those 66 years old above are not allowed to attend,” she added. Also, there will be a drive-in food booth for those who want to buy snacks before viewing so that they won’t need to go out of their vehicles. The first exhibition starts at 5:30PM while the second begins at 8:00PM. There will be no viewing on December 24 and 31. GLF 2020 officially started on December 16 where seven lanterns from different barangays were exhibited. The giant lanterns of Pampanga serve as symbols of hope, unity and faith of the Kapampangans. (CLJD/JLDC-PIA 3)

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References:

* Philippine Information Agency. "Giant lantern display adapts to new normal." Philippine Information Agency. https://pia.gov.ph/news/articles/1061999 (accessed December 17, 2020 at 10:06PM UTC+08).

* Philippine Infornation Agency. "Giant lantern display adapts to new normal." Archive Today. https://archive.ph/?run=1&url=https://pia.gov.ph/news/articles/1061999 (archived).

#Philippines #News #Filipino #Pinoy #Tourism #Politics #Culture #Editorial #Environment #Society #History

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malikexpress123-blog · 6 years ago

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Serene Air - Get discounted Sereen Air Online fair with Malik Express

Serene air has started their operations on 29 January 2017. It is a private airline of Pakistan owned by Sohail Gul Khan. It is the fourth airline of the country that is serving at domestic level after PIA, SereneAir and Shaheen Air.

The Headquarter of SereneAir is in Islamabad. Currently the airline is flying to only six destinations in Pakistan:

Faisalabad

Islamabad

Karachi

Lahore

Quetta

Peshawar

It has a fleet of 3 brand new Boeing 737-800 which are famous for their efficiency and safety record. The mission of Serene Air is to provide modernize and refreshing domestic flying experience. It is an economic airline that aims to provide affordable flying to people of Pakistan. The airline is also giving tough competition to other airlines like PIA and SereneAir.

Baggage Policy

SereneAir is providing very flexible and cheap baggage allowance to their customers. They are providing 32 kg free baggage allowance and 7 kg for hand carry excluding Laptop. Ladies can carry their personal hand bags for free. If your baggage exceed from 32 kg you will have to pay PKR 115 fee per kg.

List of prohibited items

Radioactive Materials

Compressed Gas

Flammable Liquids

Poisonous Substances

Flammable Solids (Lighters or match box)

Infectious Substances

Oxidizing Materials

Miscellaneous Goods

Exclusive and Firearms

Injections

Samsung Galaxy Note 7

Blood bags, human organs and urine bags

Achieving Customer Delight by giving Superior Service.

One of the aims of Serene Air is to achieve customer satisfaction. They are trying to exceed it to customer delight by providing extra and superior service. Services include

Different Menu Each Day

Serene Air is offering different menu every day to please and surprise its flyers. They are promoting this service with the slogan "Each Better Than Last".

Sky Interior

Sereen Air is pushing the boundaries of interior design ahead. They are providing a spacious and comfortable look with the soft LED lighting that gives a cosy feel.

More Leg Space

One of the biggest contribution to a comfortable flight is how much space you have when you sit at your seat. Sereen Air is offering spacious and comfortable seats to its travelers.

Full Meal On-Board

SereneAir is offering a meal that is the perfect combination of spices and herbs. As a Pakistani airline they provide full meal to travelers to make people want to travel with them again.

Preallocation of seats

Serene Air is giving complete freedom to choose any seat of your choice during the booking.

Caring and Courteous Cabin Crew

Serene Air believe that these people are the re-presenters of the airline. That is why they always try to choose enthusiastic and professional people to build the team. Caring and courteous cabin crew is always there to make travelers journey peaceful.

Boeing Trained Cockpit Crew

SereneAir has picked the best and the best from the industry and trained them to deliver the safe flying.

SereneAir Reservation, Ticketing and Booking

As a member of IATA, Malik Express facilitates you with an easy and fast ticketing services. We are providing our customers with

SereneAir ticket facility

Online Booking

SereneAir reservation

SereneAir flight schedule

Flight status

We have tried to compile and simplify information about Serene Air Airlines. Make sure to book your air ticket with Malik Express in advance to enjoy cheap rates and discounts.

Deals

Malik Express

offers you latest and best deals offered by SereneAir.Offers

Family Discount

We offers discounts of families of 5 members or more than 5.

Children Discount

We offer low fares for children within the age of 2-11 years.

Infant Goes for Free

Offers free travel for infants.

Low Fares

Offers the affordable value quality and low fares to travelers.

For inquiry and more details about

•

SereneAir flight booking

•

SereneAir airline ticket

•

SereneAir fares

•

Flight Schedule and status

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brandsmagazinepakistan-blog · 6 years ago

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Brands Magazine

http://www.monthlybrands.com.pk/passengers-limbo-pias-sabre-system-goes/

Passengers in limbo as PIA’s SABRE system goes down

A technical fault in the online reservation system – SABRE – of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has sparked the fear of flight delays among thousands of the airline’s passengers all over the world.

More than 400 passengers having their international flights scheduled are being issued manual boarding passes at Karachi airport, sources told DailyPakistan on Tuesday.

This is not the first time the system has gone down. In May, the PIA sales slowed down due to a technical fault in its online reservation system.

Sabre is a US-based global online ticket reservation system, and according to the national flag-carrier, the problem has occurred at the service provider’s end, affecting the airlines around the globe using the system.

Most airlines offer more than one online ticket reservation systems. Airlines primarily using Sabre would have moved to other online reservation system, according to a PIA spokesperson.

Sabre is one of the most familiar systems. Others include Abacus, GDS, Apollo, Free Porter, Amadeus and Galileo.

PIA’s accumulated losses ballooned 7.3 per cent to Rs282.20 billion during a six-month period ended June 30, 2016 as it continued to fly in losses on many international routes and lose domestic business to international airlines.

The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) is the largest airline services with more than 30 airplanes for the passengers, and operates 100 flights everyday.

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tariqsdq · 5 years ago

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We mostly know about the most famous hotels as if you are a citizen of Pakistan so you know about the hotel one, Pearl continental and other famous hotels as well.

#cheap tour packages #PIA Online Ticket Reservation

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rehmantravelworld-blog · 5 years ago

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Rehman Travels offers amazing discounts on booking of flight tickets of PIA. You can simply add your destination, departing date, returning date, etc on the website of Rehman Travels and book the flight at cheap rates.

#pia ticket rates #pia online booking #pia flight booking #pia ticket price #pia ticket reservation

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utv-pakistan-posts · 7 years ago

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PIA's online booking system crashes due to technical glitch

PIA’s online booking system crashes due to technical glitch

KARACHI: A glitch with United States (US) reservation system providing company has resulted in outage of some online services of Pakistan International Airline (PIA) on Wednesday including issuance of tickets.

Reportedly, the national carrier has lost contact with parts of the world with regards to online booking of seats costing the airline millions of rupees.

The glitch has also resulted in…

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mexblogme-blog · 6 years ago

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Serene Air - Get discounted Sereen Air Online fair with Malik Express

The Headquarter of SereneAir is in Islamabad. Currently the airline is flying to only six destinations in Pakistan:

Faisalabad

Islamabad

Karachi

Lahore

Quetta

Peshawar

Baggage Policy

List of prohibited items

Radioactive Materials

Compressed Gas

Flammable Liquids

Poisonous Substances

Flammable Solids (Lighters or match box)

Infectious Substances

Oxidizing Materials

Miscellaneous Goods

Exclusive and Firearms

Injections

Samsung Galaxy Note 7

Blood bags, human organs and urine bags

Achieving Customer Delight by giving Superior Service.

One of the aims of Serene Air is to achieve customer satisfaction. They are trying to exceed it to customer delight by providing extra and superior service. Services include

Different Menu Each Day

Serene Air is offering different menu every day to please and surprise its flyers. They are promoting this service with the slogan "Each Better Than Last".

Sky Interior

Sereen Air is pushing the boundaries of interior design ahead. They are providing a spacious and comfortable look with the soft LED lighting that gives a cosy feel.

More Leg Space

One of the biggest contribution to a comfortable flight is how much space you have when you sit at your seat. Sereen Air is offering spacious and comfortable seats to its travelers.

Full Meal On-Board

SereneAir is offering a meal that is the perfect combination of spices and herbs. As a Pakistani airline they provide full meal to travelers to make people want to travel with them again.

Preallocation of seats

Serene Air is giving complete freedom to choose any seat of your choice during the booking.

Caring and Courteous Cabin Crew

Boeing Trained Cockpit Crew

SereneAir has picked the best and the best from the industry and trained them to deliver the safe flying.

SereneAir Reservation, Ticketing and Booking

As a member of IATA, Malik Express facilitates you with an easy and fast ticketing services. We are providing our customers with

SereneAir ticket facility

Online Booking

SereneAir reservation

SereneAir flight schedule

Flight status

We have tried to compile and simplify information about Serene Air Airlines. Make sure to book your air ticket with Malik Express in advance to enjoy cheap rates and discounts.

Deals

Malik Express

offers you latest and best deals offered by SereneAir.Offers

Family Discount

We offers discounts of families of 5 members or more than 5.

Children Discount

We offer low fares for children within the age of 2-11 years.

Infant Goes for Free

Offers free travel for infants.

Low Fares

Offers the affordable value quality and low fares to travelers.

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recentanimenews · 4 years ago

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i☆Ris Member Yu Serizawa to Stream Her 1st Solo Online Concert on August 15

Yu Serizawa, a member of the six-member voice actress idol group i☆Ris, will steam her first no-audience solo online concert "Yu Serizawa Online Live ~Kami x Taiou x Summer Party~" on August 15, 2020.

Serizawa is best known as the voice of Mirei Minami in the PriPara anime series and Anna Akagi in the ongoing Kiratto Pri☆Chan TV anime. While performing as a member of one of the most popular voice actress units, she made her solo singer debut in July 2018 and has released two singles and two mini-albums so far.

She says in an official interview, "I've been wanting to try an online concert for quite a while, and I've been talking to the staff about it. When the decision was made to realize this concert, I was relieved that I would finally be able to cheer up all my fans. I know they have been forced to live patiently, so I will cheer them up! I feel like I can show them the prettiest me ever in the closest distance (laughs). I love shooting music videos. I like to think about the angles and ways to attract people to me, so I'm happy to be able to show them through visuals. I want to bring you visuals of me shining brightest in the world!"

芹澤優初のオンラインライブ「Yu Serizawa Online Live ～神×対応×サマーパーティ～」開催決定‼️ ????日時 8/15(土)1部15:30~/2部20:00~ ????チケットhttps://t.co/mEm2Cl3ngT ✎詳細https://t.co/f8kca1neiX 芹澤本人からのコメントも到着！ぜひご覧ください♪(スタッフ)#セリコソロ

— 芹澤優(i☆Ris) (@iRis_s_yu) August 6, 2020

The two-part concert will be streamed on PIA LIVE STREAM (the URL will be announced 15 minutes before the concert begins) on August 15, and its archive streaming will be available until 23:59 on August 17 (JST). Tickets (3,500 yen for the live section, 1,000 yen for the after-talk section) will be sold on Ticket Pia between August 6 and 17.

"Yu Serizawa Online Live ~Kami x Taiou x Summer Party" scheudle:

Streaming day: August 15, 2020

Live section's first part - 15:30~ / second part - 20:00~

After-talk section's first part - 17:30~ / second part - 22:00~

1st single "Saiaku na Hi demo Anata ga Suki" short MV (July 25, 2018 release):

youtube

2nd single "Debikyuu" MV (November 27, 2019 release):

youtube

"Yu Serizawa 1st Live Tour 2019 -ViVid♡ Contact!-" DVD/Blu-ray digest (June 3, 2020 release):

youtube

Source: Yu Serizawa officisal website / Twitter

By: [email protected]

#Anime #News #Latest in Anime News by Crunchyroll!

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touristguidebuzz · 7 years ago

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Inside Priceline Group’s Diss of Trivago — The Backstory

Earlier this year, the German hotel search site Trivago downplayed actor Tim Williams because he was becoming too much of a star in the site’s seemingly never-ending stream of television commercials. Revenue has since shrunk. Coincidence? Trivago

Skift Take: What do a debate over landing pages, the acquisition of Momondo, a shift into hotel software services, and regulators forcing changes in online travel agency contracts have in common? Each of those seemingly unrelated things may have pushed Priceline to toggle back its spending on Trivago.

— Sean O'Neill

It’s a boom time for trying to fathom the bust-up of Trivago.

For several years, the Expedia-backed hotel-search company had been gaining share of the combined Priceline Group and Expedia Inc. advertising budgets.

In 2013, Priceline and Expedia spent only 3.4 percent of their ad budgets on Trivago, according to estimates by Cowen & Co., an investment bank. By 2016, they spent 9.5 percent.

The two giants liked how Trivago’s TV ad campaign gathered an audience primed to buy and how the website’s user experience did a cost-effective job of converting shoppers into buyers.

As is now relatively well-known, something went wrong for Trivago in 2017. It went from double-digit, year-on-year growth, to a likely bleak forecast for the first half of 2018.

We’ve noted that Priceline pulled back on its spending. The most popular explanation for this was that Trivago had changed its algorithm in a way Priceline didn’t like, prompting a retaliation.

Priceline is the winner in the dust-up because it is now spending less per referral it gets from Trivago than before. That’s because Expedia dialed back spending, too.

But Priceline probably pulled back for other reasons, too. Here are a few worth noting:

Booking.com’s Landing Page Issue

Priceline Group’s biggest brand Booking.com has wanted visitors referred from Trivago to land on one of its search result pages, not on a listing for an individual property.

Since last winter, Trivago has been pushing online travel agencies to use property-specific landing pages.

During Trivago’s second-quarter earnings call with investors, CEO Rolf Schromgens said its users get “disturbed” when they click a button about an individual listing on its website and end up on a site such as Booking.com that shows an array of new hotel choices.

Trivago penalized companies that did that by giving them a lower landing page score in its complex calculations for determining how it presents rates on its website.

Using Trivago for an Ottawa hotel search for late January, we found a hotel for sale via a few links. The Booking.com link took us to a search result landing page showing the hotel along with many other properties. The Expedia link took us to the individual property’s listing.

Perhaps not coincidentally, the first Booking.com offer appeared on the second page of search results, well past many Expedia and Hotels.com offers.

The big brands prefer to show visitors multiple hotels to try to push them into booking more expensive or otherwise more profitable options. Repeating the search on Kayak, both the Expedia and Priceline links went to search result pages, not individual hotel listings. Repeating the trick on TripAdvisor, Expedia and Priceline links also went to search result pages.

In short, Priceline does not want any company to penalize it for its choice of metasearch landing-page architecture.

The Momondo Factor

Priceline’s acquisition of Momondo may have affected its thinking about Trivago, too.

Earlier this year, Priceline acquired the travel metasearch company for $550 million.

While the deal closed in July, just as it accelerated its Trivago pullback, the prelude to the deal may have prompted a change in Priceline’s thinking.

First, while Momondo’s revenue still is heavily focused on airplane ticket sales, the brand needs to compete with Trivago in hotel reservations to become more profitable — given the typically greater commissions in hotels. The acquisition thus made it less sensible for Priceline to fund a competitor indirectly by buying ad space on Trivago.

Second, Momondo, like Kayak did years ago, found traction with brand advertising campaigns.

In a Skift Research report earlier this year on Priceline’s Competitive Position in 2017, Momondo’s managing director Pia Vemmelund talked about how Momdondo had created a formula of successfully entering a market with a TV blitz and being successful as they followed up with digital marketing that became cheaper thanks to the brand awareness.

So the Momondo purchase may have indirectly prompted Priceline to choose to shift a few percentage points of budgets out of vertical travel metasearch and into brand TV advertising.

Priceline may be putting Booking.com on TV in 30 countries more aggressively because Momondo’s approach reminded them of a lesson about effective marketing. Trivago faces a double whammy: It is losing many Priceline dollars to TV, and the TV spending will, in turn, diminish the effectiveness of its own TV spending.

Another factor: Priceline may have been concerned that Ctrip’s acquisition of Skyscanner last winter might mean more aggressive competition in metasearch.

Trivago’s Hotelier Services Push

This year, Trivago began in earnest to woo hotels to use it to reach consumers instead of using the online travel agencies.

While the effort is still too young to bear fruit, it could eventually cause headaches for Priceline Group’s online travel agency brands — whose commissions are generally higher than the effective cost of direct hotel distribution through Trivago.

Trivago created a subsidiary that focuses on the marketing, sales, and maintenance of its business software services and technologies that hotels use to improve their conversion on it. The company also rolled out updated functionality for its suite of tools for hoteliers to help them be savvier in making bids. Neither of the Priceline metasearch brands, Kayak or Momondo, made a comparable effort.

The company was looking to ramp up its “instant booking” product, called Trivago Express. It was looking to add custom retargeting of users by audience type. It was considering experimenting with hotel storefronts for chains, similar to the airline storefronts Skyscanner has been testing.

By undercutting Trivago now with a pullback in ad spending, Priceline may have slowed down Trivago’s ability to broaden its marketplace by populating real competition from hoteliers. This point relates to the next one.

The Breakdown in Hotel Rate Parity

Trivago’s potential to undermine the online travel agency model gained a tailwind as European countries changed regulations in the past few years. Watchdogs forced Priceline and Expedia to loosen their contract provisions and allow hotels to distribute different rates in various places.

So-called rate-parity provisions remain in place in the U.S., but in a parallel trend, the major U.S.-based hotel chains recently reworked their contracts with Priceline and Expedia to allow them to offer cheaper or more advantageous “loyalty rates” outside of the online travel agency websites and apps.

These trends mean that hotels now have more flexibility to compete with the online booking channels on Trivago as a way to boost direct bookings.

In practice, only a few hotel chains have made this leap, including, Melia, Pacifica, and SBE. But the more that hotels advertise better direct rates via Trivago and similar channels, the less competitive online travel agency offers become.

Hotels Haven’t Filled the Gap Left by Priceline

Priceline Group had made a bet it could partly withdraw from Trivago’s auctions without hotels rushing in and taking business it left behind.

So far, it bet right. According to the third quarter earnings call, hotels are still not rushing into Trivago.

Trivago has repeatedly explained away why hotels don’t rush in to participate by blaming them for having poor technology. The company recently took steps to offer new software to fix this technology gap.

But technology is likely but a small issue among many why hotels have been wary of metasearch.

A more central problem is that the online travel agencies appear to still punish hotels for not giving them their best rates.

Major online travel agencies hire Web scraping companies to scan rate changes for hotels worldwide, tracking when a hotel’s direct rates beat, match, or undercut the ones the agencies offer.

When a hotel undercuts it, the brand typically sends in its market managers to rap on the knuckles of hoteliers who asserted themselves. A brand may also punish the property by suppressing its listing in the sort order of its search results to lower the booking volume, though connecting the dots is hard to prove in any given case.

The online travel agencies may also use “steering” tactics as retaliation. One tactic is to bid on Google AdWords keywords that the hotel likes to use and then place ads in premier positions on Google’s search results page to point users to another similarly named property. But connecting the dots is hard to prove in any given case.

Hotel Cat and Mouse Game

Against this backdrop, there is a cat-and-mouse game being played out between the online travel agencies and hotels on Trivago.

Some hotels have taken a cautious approach of at least occasionally breaking with the rates they offer on third-party channel prices by specific room type for specific stay durations and lead times, such as by undercutting rates on third-party channels for last-minute reservations but not for ones a month out.

Our admittedly unscientific test searches suggest this happens most often in intensively competitive markets, such as Paris, Berlin, and Rome.

About 20 percent of hotels try this, according to a European Commission survey earlier this year. One Web-scraping service estimated anonymously that the figure might reach as high as 40 percent on any given day in popular markets like Rome and Paris.

The cat-and-mouse game has intensified because of the spread of affordable revenue management software and other tools.

In the past, hotels did a mediocre job with direct bookings. But today’s new tools are letting hoteliers be smarter. Companies like Sabre offer hotels more sophisticated booking engines that do a better job of converting customers who come direct.

Companies like Duetto offer hoteliers insights into both repeat and new shoppers and help them customize merchandising content in their booking engines. In other words, hoteliers can increasingly adjust room type sort order, packages, and upsells along with pricing depending on who is shopping. That, in turn, makes their investment in direct booking campaigns more sustainable as a commercial strategy.

All of these efforts mean hotels are converting direct bookings better now than before. Hotels are looking to take the next step of exploiting customers’ varying intent and willingness to pay. That effort requires contact with the customer’s data.

If Trivago could help them get that data and direct bookings, they might flock to it.

Hotels still need data-based assurance that their efforts to drive business through Trivago and similar direct channels are worth the risk of retaliatory tactics by the Booking.com’s and Expedia’s of the world.

It’s not straightforward for the typical hotel to calculate if Trivago and similar channels ultimately drive more revenue and reduce customer acquisition costs than the online travel agencies. Those calculations require levels of technological and commercial savvy that most independent hotel operators still lack.

Trivago might tilt the balance toward hotels if it adjusted its model.

Yet not all are convinced. “The problem is that Trivago isn’t Google or TripAdvisor, and doesn’t enjoy a true upper funnel position,” said Oz Har Adir, CEO of FindHotel. “It has to ‘hard sell’ these sponsored positions to hotels and that’s an expensive effort that will take years to materialize, years Trivago doesn’t have.”

Paid Search Is Past Its Prime

The above explanations merely touch on a variety of factors that may explain why Priceline chose to toggle back on advertising on Trivago this year and what may come next between the companies.

The most important context in understanding Trivago’s potential to bounce back is that paid search is becoming less effective for many travel advertisers.

A few years ago, paid search was by far the most effective channel because buying brand keywords was relatively cheap and produced a lot of leads.

But that’s changing, partly as Google increases its rates by 5 to 7 percent a year, partly as consumers shift to mobile and respond better to native ads than text-based ones, and partly as AdWords bidding auctions have reached a saturation point.

In response, enterprise advertisers, such as hotel chains managing 500 or more properties, have a heartier appetite than ever for metasearch as an alternative.

Last month a survey of 120 enterprise advertisers by digital marketing agency Koddi found that, on average, metasearch was a more productive channel for them than paid search, retargeting, display, and email.

The survey was not scientific. But a majority of the respondents were not clients of the firm, which specializes in metasearch marketing. And the survey results dovetail with what Skift has heard from other industry consultants recently.

Increased spending on metasearch is a rising tide that could lift Trivago along with other players.

After all, Trivago remains brilliant at the acquisition of quality traffic.

Bloodied but Unbowed

Much depends on Trivago’s next move. Its investors will pressure it to do everything it can to get back into the good graces of Priceline, like an addict cut off from their opioid prescription.

Exhibit A: Booking.com is widely considered to be better at converting customers than most other online travel agencies. So Trivago will feel a gravitational pull to make sure Booking.com’s listings appear high in the sort order, to maximize its revenue.

If Trivago goes back for a Priceline Group fix, expect it to become rare to see hotels get the “best deal” slot or other premium placements in search results even when the direct hotel offer is significantly cheaper.

Suspicions that Trivago was tilting in that direction arose on October 27, when the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority said that it was investigating the manner in which Trivago displays information to customers, including how hotels appear in its search and how hotel discounts are applied.

Maybe the company will be bold and take the Priceline slap as an opportunity to break out of its dependence on the global duopoly for growth.

To simplify, hotels once sold all their comparable rooms at the same rate. By selling a commodity product, the Booking.com’s of the world won by outspending them on creating a simpler and better-marketed shopping experience for consumers.

Yet if hoteliers could differentiate their products better and display different offers in different channels to different shoppers, they could retake some control. Trivago could profit if it helped.

In the meantime, the search by analysts, journalists, and investors for the right mix of reasons why Trivago stumbled is reminiscent of Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 movie Rashomon, a look at the shifting nature of truth. Expect the debate to continue for some time.

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