Travel rumblings

There is one glaring omission in the Visit England awards: not a single one for customer satisfaction or service.

APD has become a useful red herring to hide behind when commercial reality shows that Ryanair has got its calculations wrong.

I will “continue with tourism promotion, not only of my beloved Mexico…”

Promoting “Visit Europe” as an idea seems a waste of €300 million that could be better spent by individual countries or areas.

Let these coffee buffs stop the problems they are causing and settle for just a simple coffee.

What is about designers? Don’t they live in the real world?

Smaller aircraft like the Dreamliner and the A-350 can now fly the routes that used to be the preserve of the jumbos.

The CMA has smacked their hands and told them not to be bad boys. The companies have said they won’t do it again and the CMA has settled for that

Sooner or later the British government and politicians from whatever party have to understand that their parliamentary shenanigans are affecting an important industry.

It is been a complete waste of time since nobody seems to have taken any notice of it at least any meaningful way.

I like the way the BBC wrote up the results of the public consultation that the council in Edinburgh undertook about its proposed £2 tax a night on hotels.

In future I should like to know that places at which I stay will be as data secure as they can be and that checks are in place to confirm that this is so.

The target of the fee is cruise passengers which, the local council and many locals argue, bring people in for the day and yet contribute little in the way of economic benefit to the city.

Wouldn’t it be better to suggest something more manageable like one or two places a year with a maximum of probably 100 things to see?

All-in-all I’d book with a competitor that does try to stimulate my interest in a holiday which is what Gibraltar, Ireland and Virgin Atlantic manage with their more direct ads!

The spontaneous reaction of many Moroccan’s in decrying the terrorist atrocity and coming out for the vigil suggests that there is anger and shame at the murders.

Edinburgh needs to decide whether it wants tourists or not.

It is the implications of this attack that I find are the most worrying.

What we don’t know is whether guests actually stole these items or whether they just “walked.” That we will probably never know.

Readers may be bored if I mention it again but how can rail fares continue to rise when the service is so lamentable?

There’s another side to the City of Gold says Kaye Holland

The time has come when a sensible debate needs to be had about airline seat sizes.

It is concerned about the behaviour of visitors in the Gion-Shinbashi area of the city where relations between visitors and locals has reached the point where a committee of locals has been set up to encourage more courteous behaviour.

At Edinburgh airport this week, I bought a meal deal. At the self-service checkout the reader wanted to scan the barcode on my boarding card. Why?

I think that I shall remain teetotal on flights. The cabin crew may not like it but my wallet will!

Just as airlines have adopted a no-tolerance policy towards over-drinking and flying, the same attitude should be taken to this sort of behaviour.

Russian visa applications are notoriously complex but the pay off is worth it, writes Kaye Holland

As more and more airports introduce charges for just dropping off passengers is this man’s attitude an indication that passengers might be reaching the limits of the patience with the way that the aviation industry is fleecing passengers at every opportunity?