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ORANJESTAD, Aruba, June 4, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The Texan oil concern Valero decided on Thursday to restart its refinery on the Caribbean island Aruba. The production process was halted in July 2009 due to, among others, a conflict with the former government of Aruba about tax issues. About 4,000 Arubans lost their jobs when the refinery was closed down . The new government, led by Prime Minister Mike Eman, immediately after its installation took steps to find possible...

MILWAUKEE, June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Beginning on June 4, 2010, for bookings through July 15, 2010, Funjet Vacations is featuring the most popular Caribbean islands and offering amazing deals and exclusive savings for travel through April 15, 2011. Visit www.Funjet.com for details. Throughout the sale, Funjet Vacations is offering reduced prices on all of their Caribbean vacation packages in 21 destinations! And, each week Funjet will spotlight a different island and offer additional savings...

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- You must be doing something right when your competitors fight back with baseless lies. Xirrus® was forwarded a communication in response to a recent win at a prestigious Academy in the United Kingdom. This communication was yet another attempt by Aruba Networks® and its partners to mislead the public about Xirrus' Wi-Fi technology. The customer in this case purchased Xirrus instead of Aruba Networks and was thereby subjected to a series...

ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AirTran Airways, a subsidiary of AirTran Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: AAI), today launched a sale for travel to the airline's Caribbean destinations with fares starting as low as $44*. Travelers may purchase these sale fares at www.airtran.com or via AirTran Airways' reservations system at 1-800-AIR-TRAN. For Spanish, call 1-877-581-9842. These special fares are available for purchase through January 14, 2010, and are good for travel January 28,...

NEW YORK, Jan. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Retail Pro achieved a major milestone today launching phase 1 of project "Aruba" at the National Retailers Federation conference. "Aruba" is the internal project name that demonstrates Retail Pro's serious commitment to delivering products that are flexible to fit the unique needs of today's retailers while also lowering total cost of ownership as Aruba was designed to work within the current hardware and infrastructure of today's retailers. "We are...

ALVIN, Texas, Dec. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Team, Inc. (Nasdaq: TISI) will have an earnings conference call on Wednesday, January 6, 2010 at 9:00 am Eastern Time (8:00 am Central) to discuss its earnings release for the second quarter of fiscal year ending May 31, 2010. The earnings release will be issued after market close on Tuesday, January 5, 2010. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090602/TEAMINCLOGO) The call will be broadcast over the web and can be accessed on Team's...

ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AirTran Airways, a subsidiary of AirTran Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: AAI), today launched new service between Atlanta and Aruba, offering one nonstop flight each week. On January 9, 2010, the airline will also introduce weekly nonstop flights between Orlando and Aruba. Service to the popular vacation destination will join existing flights to San Juan, Puerto Rico, Cancun, Mexico, and most recently, Nassau, Bahamas, and Key West, Fla. In February,...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- More than 600,000 people in the District of Columbia, suburban Maryland, and Northern Virginia are at risk of hunger. 200,000 are children, so American Airlines is teaming up with the Capital Area Food Bank (CAFB) to help raise funds and awareness. Beginning today, the CAFB and American Airlines are initiating "Flight to End Hunger," a campaign to "go to the moon at 238,000 miles" (the distance between the earth and the moon) and raise...

SAO PAULO, Sept. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes S.A. (NYSE: GOL; Bovespa: GOLL4), the largest low-cost and low-fare airline in Latin America, announces that it has received permission from the Brazilian National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) and other relevant authorities to operate scheduled flights between Brazil, Venezuela and the island of Aruba, in the Caribbean. The Company began selling tickets today for the new route, its tenth international...

ORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AirTran Airways, a subsidiary of AirTran Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: AAI), today released schedules for new service to Aruba. These flights will mark the airline's fifth Caribbean destination and are in addition to recently announced service to Montego Bay, Jamaica, and Nassau, Bahamas and existing service to Cancun, Mexico, and San Juan, Puerto Rico. AirTran Airways will begin flights to Aruba from Atlanta on December 19, 2009, and from Orlando...