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Just About Travel tells you what’s hot and what’s not in the travel world, right now…

For a start goats won’t be allowed. Other creatures banned include insects and hedgehogs (surely not the easiest animal to carry) and barred are any animals with tusks or horns so a highland calf is an obvious no-go!

Norwegian and Wow Air have been providing cheaper flights to the USA for a while. Now BA, American, Iberia and Finnair are set to join in.

Monday January 15th is a red-letter day for international travellers and it is now just one week away.

More and more I am getting the feeling that some airlines would rather I took my business elsewhere.

If Mr Taylor’s case is successful it mmight make the airlines think again and give us sufficient room for health reasons as well as comfort.

If you are considering paying more to travel premium economy, check the seat measurements with seatguru before deciding whether paying the additional amount is worth it.

A new low- cost airline – Level – launches, there are re-openings of museums and its nearly cherry blossom season.

Canada, Croatia and Geneva all announced that more Britons were travelling there. New York expects fewer of us and Egypt seems to be trying to deter us from holidaying in the land “where it all began.”

American Airlines, Etihad, Emirates, Singapore Airlines and Turkish Airlines have been told by the CAA to obey EU rules or face unlimited fines.

Tattoos, why Santa is on a lifeboat, Michelin star restaurants in Macao and the delights of Sydney at Christmas feature in Adrian’s column this week.

In the annual customer experience survey published by KPMG Nunwood, the travel and hospitality industry doesn’t come out of it as well as it should.

Just About Travel tells you what’s hot and what’s not in the travel world right now…

Adrian bemoans the fact that nobody has bought him a holiday as a Christmas present, queries why air fares still have such high fuel surcharges and senses the fight to get us to holiday next summer has already begun.

In praise of Delta

It’s easy to bash BA but it’s not necessarily fair or accurate writes Kaye Holland

Adrian looks forward to standing on the wing of a seaplane in Croatia, meeting Swedes in his local Welsh pub and pondering who to propose for a Scottish commemorative plaque. Amongst other things!

CD-Traveller tells you what’s hot and what’s not in the travel world. This month Peckham and Virginia are making waves, but there’s criticism for cruise ships and the Chancellor’s increase of APD

CD-Traveller tells you what’s hot and what’s not in the travel world. This month Switzerland and Sweden are on our radar, while faking a disability to get ahead at the airport gets a big thumbs down

Some readers might have spotted that I have been travelling recently. For 12 days I have lived out of a small, carry-on wheelie case. But as I picked up things it grew fatter. So I checked it in as hold baggage something I rarely do. And guess what? It didn’t keep up with me so I have been shopping for the necessities.

Three times yesterday I was on the receiving end of a scam purporting to come from American Airlines. Don’t open the e-mail, just delete it.

No, not on clothes or beds or sofas. I’m talking about the holiday sales. At the moment airlines, hotels, travel agents and tour operators have them in abundance. But will they make us book?

A survey by HolidayExtras.com has revealed that nearly six-and-a-half-million people flying in and out of the UK in the last year failed to turn their phones off.

We are barely into the bank holiday and already the airline sales are starting. It’s a little early as they usually start about the middle of September. Is it because they are nervous about passenger numbers during the slow Autumn period?

Sometimes you might be forgiven for thinking that the basic price of an airline ticket is peanuts. The add-ons are those little bits here and there that suddenly glare out at you on the final page and cause you to take a deep breath and say, “but the fare was only a tenner!” when I started. Now one of the biggest airline ticketing systems providers, Amadeus, has completed some research which shows that last year these add-ons were worth €15.11 billion.

ow many loyalty cards do you have? A nectar card. A Tesco one. Maybe one for Boots. If you’re a regular flyer you might have one for an airline or a hotel chain. And then you might be a sad case like me who has a bulging wallet with some 20 odd cards.
But the granddaddy of them all is from American Airlines which this month, celebrates its thirtieth birthday.

Last night the winners were announced of the British Travel Awards. CD-Traveller is one of the sponsors because these are the only awards where you, the traveller and holidaymaker, can vote. So it’s not just the travel industry patting itself on the back. And over 100,000 of you voted so our thanks, and those of the organisers, for taking the time to vote.