Travel rumblings

On St David’s Day of all days, one of Wales’s heritage railways – Llangollen Railway –have had to appoint receivers.

May be it is time our Competition and Markets Authority looked at whether there is confusion in the UK?

In addition a few well-chosen fines or prosecutions would remind the industry that travel for holiday purposes is still banned.

One single world-wide accepted solution is what the travel industry, airlines, and governments should want.

This edict has come about because a minority are making a mockery of the rules that the rest of us have to be abide by.

Tourist officials in Kent are going to hate Matt’s cartoon in the Telegraph this morning.

Why is a travel trade body of interest to holidaymakers, travellers and readers of Just about Travel?

The view of UK governments has generally been that the prospect of summer holidays is too far away to be considered.

In the US there have been stories about people refusing to fly on the MAX and others querying what plane they are flying on. Will the same happen here?

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.