Travel rumblings

When oh when will we get a minister who knows something of tourism and iwho will stay in the job for a couple of years so that they become of use to the tourism industry?

No, this isn’t a story about the Loch Ness monster recommending a TripAdvisor rating but you are close.

For those who say that the organisation is just being humorous, potentially scaring people about flying is not humorous

If there was a customer service award for the most cocked-up bit of business then BA would surely walk away it!

my biggest bug bear is reserved for airport trolleys. If you ask me, Every self respecting airport should offer an array of trolleys but alas trying to find one can prove as elusive as a taxi on New Year’s Eve.

The RAC looked at 22 airports and found that only four, Bristol, Cardiff, Gatwick and Liverpool John Lennon have kept their prices for both drop-off and pick-up the same.

Court cases are outstanding against the company because it has not paid compensation to holidaymakers for delayed or cancelled flights under EU261. Where does this appear in its third-quarter accounts?

What is it about the users of toilets at Glasgow Central that is so different from those – a mile or so away – at Glasgow Queen Street?

Someone needs to take a long hard look at why the US has failed to maintain its tourism position given its huge spend.

Why is it that a country that once saw 600,000 Britons visit it in the early 2010’s hasn’t managed to inspire Tunisian chefs in the UK to open restaurants?

Why should the individual be pilloried? We travel on what is available

Jet 2 has been one of the most vociferous airlines in trying to stamp out bad – and in the case of this woman, it appears, absolutely stupid – behaviour.

What travel group, for example, would fit best of all in an Aldi, a Clark’s or a Wynn’s Garden Centre?

Companies have to understand that “giving something back” means more than tokenism and that the destinations they offer must also get the benefit of tourism in tangible and investment ways.

Urging us to use public transport to visit attractions and beauty stops is going to require a major re-think about how to plan, pay and implement it.

The CAA concluded that a policy of automatically cancelling a passenger’s return if they do not take the outbound flight is ‘disproportionate’.

At Dubai, Frankfurt, Gatwick, Heathrow, Singapore and Newark (New York) airports, there have been incidents with drones.

People unfamiliar with Penarth might reasonably ask themselves whether there is anything worth promoting in the town if it has to pass itself off as looking like someweher else.

How comfortable would passengers be when they know that the certification for the 737-Max is based on the one for the original model which dates back to 1967?

For those of us who can remember before liquids were a problem in hand luggage a return to those days will be bliss.

It is claimed that many of us are self-conscious about being British.

The Chinese government issued what seems to be the equivalent of a trade advisory to its citizens warning them against travelling to the USA warning them of robberies, violence, shootings and harassment.

I would be much more interested in knowing what time planes from Stansted arrived at their destinations and how punctual they were.

What she could also usefully do to reduce the number of vehicles is to promote a viable public transport system to get from the south of the airport.

Pow is a Somerset MP and, in a county where tourism is important, she might be expected to be more enthusiastic in the role than some of her predecessors

To many the company needs a good skake-up. Management ineptitude must be part of the problem as it has for many years

The growth of Dublin seems to suggest that, in the future, there will be just three international airports in the Republic of Ireland. Is that what Irish people living outside Dublin want?

Abolishing the tax was the policy in 2016 yet climate change was on the agenda then just as it is now. It seems that the Scottish government’s view is that the emissions issue only became crucial this year!