Posts Tagged ‘travel’
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Great news for UK holiday travelers as Flybe are expanding their flight base by restoring flights between Leeds Bradford and London Gatwick. This is particularly good news as it follows BMI’s decision to axe the route earlier this year.
Flybe will operate a new three times daily (twice daily on weekends) service on June 29 using Bombardier Q400 aircraft.
The airline’s chief commercial officer, Mike Rutter, said: “The new service demonstrates Flybe’s commitment to the region, continuing to help the local economy through the development of affordable and convenient business and leisure travel options.”
Tags: FlyBe, holidays, travel
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
British Airways has given another warning that its revenues in the coming financial period will fall by approximately 5% and would as a result be posting another loss next year. BA’s response to this and the falling passenger numbers caused by the recession is to reduce capacity this summer by up to 2%.
The company, which expects losses of £150million in 2008/9, is said to be considering a pay freeze and voluntary redundancies to see it through this difficult trading period.
Tags: air travel, BA, British Airways, travel
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Saturday, March 7th, 2009
Arriva, the UK bus and rail operator has warned that the poor state of the economy was making it impossible to make any confident forecasts over passenger revenues. Arriva has seen a £60 million increase in fuel costs at the same time as slower rail revenue growth. Although their profits rose by 30% to £150million last year, the company expects a demanding year ahead.
Tags: bus, rail, travel, uk
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Saturday, February 21st, 2009
Your currently saved Airmiles are risk if you do not collect any more in the next 6 months. That is the warning to all Airmiles collectors will be receiving in the post in the coming days.
Airmiles allows shoppers to collect points when they buy particular good and services which can then be redeemed for free flights – the reward scheme has a database of over 1.7 million travellers. Airmiles will be contacting all those who have at least 500 points and have not not collected any within the last 2 years.
The other bit of bad news is that Airmiles intend to charge a £30 admin fee for the redemption of the points if you have not accrued any points in the past 12 months.
Overall you can not blame Airmiles for taking a proactive approach to promoting their Airmiles and for reminding customers who have not been actively using them. We are not quite so sure about the admin fee – even if 1 point helps you avoid it – unless of course Airmiles are planning to tell customers this before they add the fee on?
Tags: airmiles, travel
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
The Government have announced the intention to log all foreign travel of all Britons for up to 10 years. Among the information to be collected are itineraries, credit card details and contact information for all 250 million rail, air and ferry journeys in to and out of Britain each year. Ministers claim the move will help protect borders and fight crime and terrorism.
While we are all supportive of the fight against terrorism is tracking our holiday plans really a way to achieve this, as a spokesman for campaign group NO2ID said “you have to ask yourself just how free is this country”.
Tags: air travel, ferry journey, rail travel, travel
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Friday, February 6th, 2009
Here is something to cheer you up during these long dark winter months – a chance to win holiday prizes and a chance to prove to your friends how good your travel knowledge is.
The Quest for the Gold Ticket has been launched by ebookers and by simply answering some testing travel questions you gain entries in to a prize draw for tickets to destinations across the World.
So how far will you go – our first go got us as far as New York before an embarassing mistake on the next question… however, we will not be beaten and intend to try again!
Find our more about the quest at www.ebookersquest.com.
Tags: ebookers, prizes, quest, travel
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Friday, February 6th, 2009
A statement on nationalrail.co.uk has rejected claims that the National rail enquiries website crashed on Monday when the bad weather hit. This will come as a surprise to the thousands of passengers who were desperately trying to get rail updates on Monday morningas they prepared for work.
However, according to the release, the website handled 48,000 simultaneous visits during the peak hours on Monday which was an amazing 16 times more than the average. However, they do concede that customers may have experienced some slowness of the site because of the heavy traffic.
Tags: national rail enquiries, rail, travel, uk
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
As the recession starts to bite, Virgin Atlantic have announced that they are introducing a pay freeze for its staff. Coming in to effect in March, the freeze aims to ensure that Virgin Atlantic remains in a strong position during the downturn. Chief Executive Steve Ridgway commented that they were taking responsible action to protect jobs.
Tags: airline, travel, Virgin Atlantic
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
It would appear that the tougher financial climate is not bad news for all in the travel trade as the Hostelling International website has reported a 31% increase in bookings. In 2008, 87,123 overnight stays were booked through the hostel travel website with Paris in France proving the most popular destination.
In fact, Paris hostels were listed in 3 of the top 5 favourites with the London Central YHA coming in at 6th.
If you are looking for accommodation close to Paris in France also check out The Quality Hotel Guide and Find holiday Parks.
Tags: France, hostel, Paris, travel, youth hostel
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Saturday, January 17th, 2009
Low cost flight operator Ryanair has incensed passengers by charging the average family £40 to process a single card payment. The airline has a policy of charging each passenger a £5 charge for a one-way flight when booking by card even if all the flights are bought in one transaction.
This means that a family or four will have to payout £40 in charges for their holiday return flights – on top of their other costs.
This again highlights the need to be fully aware of all the ‘hidden’ costs of your holiday – especially if you are using a ‘budget’ airline.
Tags: cheap flights, Holiday, ryanair, travel
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