Inflight fax

Taiwan airline Eva Air has installed fax machines on board its aircraft with satellite telephone links. All Eva Air passengers aboard transpacific and transcontinental flights can now send faxes on the upper decks of the airline's giant Boeing passenger aircraft. The new service is offered on every route EVA Air serves with its B747-400 aircraft, and can be used for outgoing faxes only. The air-to-land faxes cost 88 US cents per minute, automatically rounded up to the nearest cent and charged to a major credit card. Fax services on Eva flights to and from all North American gateways, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Newark and Vancouver. It is also available to and from London, Paris and Amsterdam, and on select flights serving Hong Kong, Macau, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Ho Chi Minh City. www.evaair.com.tw

Mandarin spa

The Mandarin Oriental International is one hotel chain that is specialising in offering spas which have been useful for relieving jet lag and stress. One of its major Asian spas is in Bangkok but more also have been developed in London, Miami, the Himalayas, Florida and Macau. Spas under development also include Hawaii, Bermuda, Manila, New York and Tokyo. The spas offer luxury personalised treatments. At the Mandarin Oriental Ananda in the Himalayas, there are traditional ayurvedic treatments, yoga and meditation. www.mandarin-oriental.com

AirTran saver

AirTran Airways offers the latest in summer air travel with a sale on seven-day advance buy fares which are available for purchase and ticketing until August 16. Travel is valid to December 12 with fares ranging from US$34 to US$129 each way and are up to 35 per cent off AirTran Airways' everyday low discount fares. These fares require neither a round-trip buy nor a Saturday night stay. Travellers can save 5 per cent more by buying tickets online. www.airtran.com

Taxing rate

The Hyatt Regency Lake Las Vegas Resort has unique Rebate for Rooms packages. Throughout this month and the start of next, guests who provide their US$300 tax rebate cheque at registration will receive deluxe room for one night and US$250 in gaming chips for use in the resort's one-of-a-kind casino featuring views of the surrounding mountains. Those with a US$600 rebate cheque can double their fun with a two-night stay and US$500 in gaming chips. Tel 702 567 1234

Virtual car race

American Airlines' Web site, www.aa.com, will offer a virtual car race across four exciting courses in AA.com's Road Rally Sweepstakes. The interactive trivia contest, designed to inform site visitors about its convenient features, will be online until September 25. Courses and corresponding questions will change every two weeks, so contestants have four chances to win the first prize - vacation to Switzerland, Yellowstone National Park, New York City or Rio de Janeiro. The grand-prize winner will drive away in the AA.com Mobile, a silver 2001 Volkswagen New Beetle. Twelve second-place winners will receive a portable DVD-ROM player, and 20 third-place winners will receive emergency road kits. Log onto www.aa.compromo and complete the registration form, then answer five AA.com-related questions. All players who complete the online registration form are automatically entered. Contest ends September 25. Winners will be randomly selected and posted on the site every two weeks. www.aa.compromo