Travel rumblings

The Sunday Telegraph reported yesterday that all adults over 18 could be vaccinated by the end of June which means summer holidays could be back on for all of us.

The more that are vaccinated the more countries are likely to open their borders to those vaccinated and the more quickly tourism and travel can return.

That seems to be the attitude of Boeing to the terrible consequences of the quality control failures of the development of the 737-MAX.

Therefore this poll answer is not what the industry or the public would want to hear. They want to know it will be safe to travel.

I remember travelling on many grubby trains. I and many other regular train travellers would like to know how clean they really are

An Airbus A320 owned by Eurowings has been re-painted to say thanks to the “best team in the world” in both German and English.

The FAA “…repeatedly permitted Southwest Airlines to continue operating dozens of aircraft in an unknown airworthiness condition for several years…”

I can’t say that I am cheering from the rafters about On the Beach being named Best Online Travel Company.

Ccountries moved to protect their own tourism businesses rather than to join together and protect the EU’s as a whole.

The gist of the story is that heritage railways in Wales have received less funding during the pandemic from the Welsh government

ngela Merkel has called on the EU to close all ski resorts this winter. The Italian prime minister has asked Italians not to head to the slopes

Much as the rest of us clear our garages out and send stuff off to charity shops or the tip, BA has decided to flog off some of its stuff to raise a bit of cash

At first sight, who will have any sympathy for people planning to strike over Christmas at Heathrow?

I could be an old man before a common policy is in operation!

Ryanair made a mess of customer relations during the first lockdown and it doesn’t look to have improved those relations this time around.

The obvious thing for it to do would be to extend its protection on vouchers issued up until just after Easter

As part of ATOL bonding, why couldn’t there be a clause stating that money refunds and compensation must be paid within a set period

Why can’t the rulings about data breaches always include a compensation sum to the people affected?

Either you want visitors in which case you have to make travel and entry a little easier or you refuse entry to visitors for a bit longer.

Calder’s reaction has been much more thoughtful and responsible that mine might have been.

The travel industry has urged governments to support regional no-go areas rather than blocking off whole countries. This thinking grew in intensity after the UK blocked the whole of Portugal rather than the regions where the pandemic was strongest. So the Algarve, the Azores and Madeira suffered from not having British tourists despite having a low incidence. The same happened in Spain where the Canaries and the Balearics had few cases compared to the mainland. Now countries are opting for more regional targeting so Britons
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Communication with customer seemed sadly lacking. That is what travel companies need to learn

At any other time I would be a supporter of such a view, my long-held thoughts being that travel does indeed broaden the mind

This year there seems to be no reason to celebrate travel, just to remember how it was and the many people who have lost their jobs.

Life is becoming increasingly more difficult to follow, understand and to decide what to do.

The more destinations that insist on a PCR test, the more strain that is placed on the NHS to test and laboratories to respond.

Only the next few months will show whether the public is willing to trust the Thomas Cook name again.

There is confusion as all four nations now have different rules for Greece.