Last XL passengers stranded abroad return home
The final ATOL-organised flight bringing UK passengers home who were impacted by the failure of XL Airways has landed on British soil. Approximately 83,000 customers of the travel operator were left marooned at 40 destinations around the world when the company collapsed in September. In the days following the grounding
by Darren Robinson October 3rd, 2008
EU to tighten border security measures
EU leaders have agreed that they want foreign visitors to their countries to be fingerprinted on entry and to take other measures to deter illegal immigrants, in a security overhaul that was proposed earlier in the week. These measures are ...
by Darren Robinson June 23rd, 2008
OpenSkies debuts Paris-New York flights
A new airline division of British Airways Plc launched service from France to the US recently. The flights were made possible by provisions of an international treaty allowing added North Atlantic service, which is the most profitable aviation market in ...
by Darren Robinson June 23rd, 2008
CarTrawler issue their first key car hire statistics
CarTrawler, the vehicle hire distribution business, has published the first “Biannual Growth Trends Index” which focuses at the world's main performance indicators and auto hire statistics. Especially, in this year’s first six months, CarTrawler has experienced increased growth in vehicle hire ...
by Darren Robinson June 22nd, 2008
Airline passengers blame bad service not prices
Travelers are saying that it’s poor levels of customer service and not just higher fares and additional charges that are leading to their dissatisfaction with U.S. airlines. This is according to a recently-released survey by J.D. Power and Associates. The study further reported that passengers’ overall satisfaction with the airline
by Darren Robinson June 20th, 2008
Online research replaces the travel books
Long gone are the days where people read pages and pages of text about a future destination filled with static pictures of certain landmarks. Today people want more and that is what is ...
by Darren Robinson June 19th, 2008
Cybersquatters hit online travel sites
Cybersquatters have now hit the $2-billion world-wide online travel market. Vendors that are essentially cybersquatters, use popular travel brand names as their domain names and in their web page content to generate traffic to their website, often by fooling the ...
by Darren Robinson June 18th, 2008
Delta relaxes rules for flood-affected passengers
Delta Air Lines customers traveling to a number of cities in the U.S. Midwest recently, who were adversely impacted by the severe weather and flooding, may be able to rebook their flights without penalty or fees. The cities affected include Cedar ...
by Darren Robinson June 17th, 2008
Finnair cuts 500 jobs due to falling demand
Finnair announced that it will cut services on its routes and is also preparing to cut up to 500 jobs as a result of a significant decline in demand. The Finnish airline will be among Europe’s first to cut back ...
by Darren Robinson June 16th, 2008
Southwest not booking seats past October
With Southwest Airlines, passengers can freely move around the US, but so far only until October 30. Most other carriers allow bookings for air travel through next spring, but Southwest still hasn't posted its schedule for the Thanksgiving and Christmas ...
by Darren Robinson June 13th, 2008
Brits drive into trouble overseas
When Brits travel abroad, they drive on the wrong side of the road, get lost, run out of petrol and leave their driving license at home – according to a new UK survey. Recent figures supplied by the government show that Britons can turn into appalling drivers when on
by Darren Robinson June 13th, 2008
Thomas Cook to compensate guests taken ill
Thomas Cook has admitted liability and agreed to pay damages to over 450 guests who became ill while staying at the Bahia Principe Resort in the Dominican Republic in 2007. This admission of liability from is likely to result in the ...
by Darren Robinson June 12th, 2008
