The national German air carrier, Lufthansa will continue to expand its network of flights from Germany to India, with a new flight starting on May 3rd, flying from Munich to Mumbai. This is in addition to Lufthansa’s regular flights to Delhi and other major Indian cities. The executive vice-president of services and human resources for  Continue Reading »

It seems that the old tried and true hotel adage of ‘location, location, location’, may not be so true anymore, for the Brits at any rate. A new report released today by expedia.co.uk is the result of surveying thousands of European travellers. Two in three British tourists say that how their hotel is decorated and  Continue Reading »

A radical proposal has suggested that children as young as six will have to be fingerprinted in order to enter the European Union. According to the proposal made by Brussels, all travellers, including young ones, will have to verify their biometric information against the information in their passports in order to gain entry into the  Continue Reading »

This summer, the cost of sending a text message back home while vacationing in Europe won’t break the bank as companies are getting ready to cut long distance charges on cell phones this summer. The European Union Commissioner responsibility for telecoms recently announced that charges for text messages sent from abroad could increase drastically very  Continue Reading »

Those looking for a great ski vacation but lacking the funds to make the trip to Switzerland this year may want to consider Špindlerluv Mlýn. Referred to by locals as Spindl, the Czech Republic’s premier ski resort is just a two hour drive from the nation’s capital, Prague. For the budget conscious, the “Pearl of  Continue Reading »

Insurance provider, Axa, recently published a study which indicates that many Britons believe that insurance is too expensive. The study suggests that insurance providers need to work harder in the future to educate consumers about the risks of being without insurance and the benefits of holding it. According to the study, 25 per cent of  Continue Reading »

Although some might consider the job of processing insurance claims to be tedious, the list of crazy claims recently released by AA Insurance indicates those filing might have a good source of entertainment after all. Last year, AA Insurance processed 180,000 claims. Among those were some strange events. One of the claims filed last year  Continue Reading »

The books have been balanced for Opodo, the online travel bookers, with 2007 profits reaching €6.6 million. This marks the first year the company has turned a profit since its inception. The company sold some of its assets to other tour operators, focusing in on the online racket. All activities which were deemed ‘non-core’ by  Continue Reading »

Passengers travelling on SAS Sverige domestic flights will now have to give their fingerprints not for personal identification purposes, but to claim their luggage. SAS says 50% of their domestic passengers travel with baggage and will benefit from what they hope will be a fast and easy service. The passengers fingerprints will be stored temporarily  Continue Reading »

An accord has been signed between Germany’s national carrier and its Vereinigung Cockpit pilot union, giving cockpit crews a 2.5% wage increase, which will be paid in retrograde back to October 1st, 2007 when the last agreement was signed, added to a 3% rise from January 1st of this year. All pilots employed with Lufthansa  Continue Reading »

OssiUrlaub.de is a company based in eastern Germany that plans to make Deutschland nudists very happy. Anyone who’s been to Germany and noticed the scores of people in public parks and pools that are in the buff know that there is a strong nudist population in the fatherland. Now OssiUrlaub will give nudies an opportunity  Continue Reading »

The national German airline Lufthansa is teaming up with travel group TUI to create a new low-cost airline. Lufthansa already has stake in some budget carriers, like Germanwings and Eurowings, and it’s with partner in that project Albrecht Knauf that will see the new airline emerge. Knauf is set to take hold of 20% of  Continue Reading »