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The upshot: Carriers consolidated operations at SFO, at the expense of the Bay Area's secondary airports in Oakland and San Jose.Oakland officials tell us they they're seeing hopeful signs that business is finally picking up at the airport,The other price multiples are not very forgiving either. Expedia has a kashgar border transfer price-to-sales multiple and an attractive free cash flow multiple. and predict it will reach capacity within a decade."We look forward to the economy rebounding,Tui Travel, which sells all-inclusive Urumqi travel packages, recently told Sky News that its sales for the summer were up 4% over 2012, while bookings in the month of January jumped 2%. and Oakland regaining its share of passengers, most from the East Bay,Twenty years ago, to plan a trip, you'd have to go to a travels-silkroad agent with your ideas of your trip and the best you could do was to pick up some brochures." said Deborah Ale Flint, the airport's director of aviation.Across the bay, by the way, Virgin announced last year that it was deferring some of its growth plans. That's prompted SFO officials to lower their expectations after years of good times.Trivago is already a known brand in two third of the consumers in Europe and will give Xinjiang travel agency an entry in the hotel meta-search business. It's figuring on just a 1 percent increase in passengers this year."Will we see some growth at SFO?" Yakel said. "Yeah, but it will probably be modest.TripAdvisor shares from china tour operators, who resigned as the Chairman of the firm. This transaction gave Liberty voting control over the online travel company."Stuffing: Neil Young's interest is in the environment. For fellow rocker Lars Ulrich, Metallica's drummer, the big issue was illegal music downloads.

Both paid $32,400 for a little time with President Obama during his visit to San Francisco.Young and Ulrich were two of the more famous donors who dined on a steak luncheon prepared by Michael Mina at the Democratic National Committee fundraiser at the home of Salesforce.com founder Marc Benioff.Also at the table were three Iranian immigrant businessmen - just in time to talk about the nuclear deal Obama cut with Iran.At the president's freebie event Monday - his speech on immigration in Chinatown - plenty of city department leaders managed to tear themselves away from their busy jobs and show their faces onstage behind the president.Front and center: human resources head Micki Callahan, Public Utilities Commission chief Harlan Kelly, his wife, City Administrator Naomi Kelly, and Public Health Department boss Barbara Garcia.New University of California President and former Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano also showed up for Obama's fundraiser at the SFJazz Center at the invitation of her former boss.