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Article: Heightened Terror Alert Drives Private Jet Travel; CharterAuction Cites 100% Rise in December Bookings.
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- January 6, 2004
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Business Editors/Travel Writers
QUINCY, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 6, 2004
CharterAuction, the intelligent value option in luxury air travel services, today announced that its sales activity for December 2003 was up 100%. The company attributed the jump to the U.S. government's elevation of the national threat level from Elevated to High risk of terrorist attack, among other factors.
"There are a number of factors that contributed to our high numbers for the end of the year. First and foremost, our clients' concerns about safety were intensified with the raising of the national threat level from yellow to orange. Our clients want more control ...