Travel rumblings

Cynical readers will know by now to distrust figures without understanding how they were reached.

If the industry wants transparency it could start by being honest with customers

Why did it take over 36 hours to harmonise travel advice on going to Bulgaria and Croatia?

There are lots of concerns about overseas travel that holidaymakers need to weigh up before deciding wether to book.

Why this change of heart by the German authorities?

What does matter is that the rules say that everyone coming from amber list countries should self-isolate so why should there be any exceptions?

Are Nicola and her trusty cabinet colleagues going to vet all those heading down the M6 and swear that they are not going anywhere near the north west of England?

Only the imaginative take advantage of today and turn it into a way of attracting more people by staying open later, opening earlier or putting special events on.

Most travel insurance policies fail to give full protections from problems caused by coronavirus.

Booking any overseas holiday which would take place in the next month or two could be a real risk.

How can you rate a beach without considering the type of beach it is?

Can passengers refuse to sail on a ship with passengers who haven’t received the full dosage?

When all is said and done, neither the travel industry nor the regulators come out of this very well

If you decide not to go, then it’s your decision, so your airline or tour operator is under no compunction to give you your money back.

Willie Walsh said that a 10-12% cut in carbon emissions by airlines could be an immediate benefit if politicians agreed on better use of air space.

Guess what starts on Monday in Portugal?

As it stands, the new proposals don’t do much for the day-tripper and holidaymaker. It just sounds like something from days gone past dressed up in modern language.

For those who agreed to roll their holiday forward, the attitude of some companies will be remembered by holidaymakers in the future.

In the thirteen years of Just about Travel, I have never known a time when the media has been full of stories about travel.

I think that we potential bookers have been led down the garden path about summer holiady bookings.

They are recommending that the government should “maintain restrictions on overseas holidays” after May 17th

Are politicians behaving like spoilt children in not wanting to talk? Are they waiting for each other to blink first?

The High Court on the UK today announced that due to a strike by staff at Ryanair in 2018, the airline must compensate passengers who were affected.

This is all the travel industry needs – more uncertainty and confusion about possible restrictions for holidaymakers and travellers.

In the ten days since Shapps gave his interview only Randox has cut its prices.

Sadiq Khan has pledged to rename London overground train routes

A move by the French Assembly to ban domestic flights under two-and-a-half hours will have an effect if it finally passes into law.

We have in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office individual ministers covering the Middle East and Africa, Africa, South Asia and the Commonwealth, Asia, the Pacific.