Travel rumblings
Jan 18th, 2021 |
By The Editor
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.
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Tags: Blue Monday, COVID recovery developments, interferon beta
Jan 13th, 2021 |
By The Editor
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.
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Tags: Qantas, vaccinations, WTTC
Jan 10th, 2021 |
By The Editor
That seems to be the attitude of Boeing to the terrible consequences of the quality control failures of the development of the 737-MAX.
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Tags: Boeing, Boeing 737 Max, Department of Justice, FAA, US House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Jan 8th, 2021 |
By The Editor
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.
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Tags: COVID-19, safe to travel message, Travelmole
Jan 4th, 2021 |
By The Editor
I remember travelling on many grubby trains. I and many other regular train travellers would like to know how clean they really are
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Tags: European Year of rail, Network Rail, railway carriage cleanliness
Dec 24th, 2020 |
By The Editor
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.
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Tags: Eurowings, travel staff
Dec 20th, 2020 |
By The Editor
The FAA “…repeatedly permitted Southwest Airlines to continue operating dozens of aircraft in an unknown airworthiness condition for several years…”
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Tags: airline regulation, Boeing, Boeing 737 Max, FAA
Dec 16th, 2020 |
By The Editor
I can’t say that I am cheering from the rafters about On the Beach being named Best Online Travel Company.
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Comments Off on Deserved? No.
Tags: ABTA, British Travel Awards, Competition and Markets Authority, On the Beach
Dec 5th, 2020 |
By The Editor
Ccountries moved to protect their own tourism businesses rather than to join together and protect the EU’s as a whole.
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Tags: Eduardo Santander, EU, EU co-ordinated travel response, European Travel Commission, Greece
Nov 30th, 2020 |
By The Editor
The gist of the story is that heritage railways in Wales have received less funding during the pandemic from the Welsh government
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Comments Off on What is fair?
Tags: Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways, heritage railways, North Yorkshire Moors Railway, Severn Valley Railway, Talyllyn Railway
Nov 28th, 2020 |
By The Editor
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
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Tags: Germany, Italy, skiing season 2020-2021
Nov 23rd, 2020 |
By The Editor
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
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Tags: BA, BA Great Coronavirus Clearout
Nov 19th, 2020 |
By The Editor
At first sight, who will have any sympathy for people planning to strike over Christmas at Heathrow?
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Tags: Christmas strike action, Heathrow, Unite
Nov 7th, 2020 |
By The Editor
I could be an old man before a common policy is in operation!
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Comments Off on Could the EU move any slower?
Tags: ECDC, EU
Nov 3rd, 2020 |
By The Editor
Ryanair made a mess of customer relations during the first lockdown and it doesn’t look to have improved those relations this time around.
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Comments Off on Sometimes in a hole, you should stop digging
Tags: passenger refunds, Ryanair
Oct 29th, 2020 |
By The Editor
The obvious thing for it to do would be to extend its protection on vouchers issued up until just after Easter
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Tags: ATOL protection, CAA, coronavirus, holiday refund vouchers
Oct 27th, 2020 |
By The Editor
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
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Comments Off on Charging companies interest
Tags: ATOL, CAA, compensation, refund policies, Virgin Holidays
Oct 17th, 2020 |
By The Editor
Why can’t the rulings about data breaches always include a compensation sum to the people affected?
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Comments Off on You’re worth about £50 each
Tags: British Airways, compensation for data hacks, Information Commissioner
Oct 10th, 2020 |
By The Editor
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.
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Comments Off on Fancy Mauritius? Then face the hurdles
Tags: coronavirus, Dominica, entry requirements, Mauritius
Oct 10th, 2020 |
By The Editor
Calder’s reaction has been much more thoughtful and responsible that mine might have been.
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Tags: Simon Calder
Oct 8th, 2020 |
By The Editor
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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Tags: Belgium, Germany, quarantine restrictions for travellers
Oct 6th, 2020 |
By The Editor
Communication with customer seemed sadly lacking. That is what travel companies need to learn
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Tags: cruise companies, customer satisfaction., National Customer Service Week
Sep 29th, 2020 |
By The Editor
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
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Tags: Travel the world Make a difference, WTTC
Sep 27th, 2020 |
By The Editor
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.
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Tags: IATA, World Aviation Festival, World Tourism Day
Sep 23rd, 2020 |
By The Editor
Life is becoming increasingly more difficult to follow, understand and to decide what to do.
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Comments Off on The future for multi-centre holidays
Tags: touring holidays h, twin-centre holidays
Sep 21st, 2020 |
By The Editor
The more destinations that insist on a PCR test, the more strain that is placed on the NHS to test and laboratories to respond.
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Comments Off on Testing holiday times
Tags: destination PCR test requirements, PCR test validity, PCR tests
Sep 16th, 2020 |
By The Editor
Only the next few months will show whether the public is willing to trust the Thomas Cook name again.
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Comments Off on Welcome back Thomas Cook?
Tags: Fosun, Thomas Cook, Thomas Cook new company
Sep 8th, 2020 |
By The Editor
There is confusion as all four nations now have different rules for Greece.
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Comments Off on UK has four different quarantine rules
Tags: Canaries, England, Greece, Mykonos, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales