Travel rumblings

Part of the world has become a little less inviting for tourists but then, wasn’t it ever so?

Headlines like “South coast holidaymakers may be trapped” have resulted in a smaller number of Aussies travelling this holiday time in Australia.

Enthusiastically launched will be the travel industry’s saturated and relentless pressure to drive us to book summer holidays with them

Nobody wants to put up with or even encounter such an idiotic prat who decides it would be “fun” to get pie-eyed at the airport or on the flight.

Will Edinburgh Airport have a change of heart? Of course not, we will just have to live with it.

It seems that some people are unwilling to go on holiday because their fear that their gardens will become overgrown and unmanageable.

I suppose people do really carry puddings and crackers on board planes but why?

Since holidaymakers and day trippers travel outside these times so they may face higher fares than those covered by the 2.7% rise.

Are travel companies not telling us of the innovations and customer satisfaction claims or are they being outperformed by other companies?

Research commissioned by Jetcost reveals that the French believe that foreigners visiting their country should be able to speak French.

Travelodge found in its nostalgia trip that 38% of families today don’t play I-Spy and 36% have never sung Ten Green Bottles.

TUI’s action is akin to Ryanair flying to Frankfurt Hahn instead of Frankfurt proper and we all know how comedians and critics have made fun of the airline for doing that.

No, there will be no Indian summer. Tesco has decreed it to be so.

How useful was the flight for us passengers to know whether we would sign up for flights of that length of time?

That seemed to be what the former chairman of Thomas Cook, Frank Meysman, told the Select Committee on Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy this morning.

So far I have contacted fourteen different insurance companies and only one was below £150 with one being over £300!

If governments feel that urgency is required in cutting emissions, PSO’s need looking at again.

The low-down on how to mix work and travel

At what number of flights does someone become a frequent flyer? Is it two return flights, six or a dozen? Should such a tax occur when there is no alternative to a flight?

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.