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Manchester Airport ’
Jun 19th, 2020 |
By The Editor
The theory – according to the airport – is to manage the number of passengers going through security and “to ensure passengers feel safer.”
Posted in Travel rumblings |
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Tags: Manchester Airport, security lines at Manchester Airport
Dec 3rd, 2019 |
By The Editor
I suppose people do really carry puddings and crackers on board planes but why?
Posted in Travel rumblings |
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Tags: Christmas puddings, hand baggage rules, Manchester Airport
Aug 16th, 2019 |
By The Editor
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.
Posted in Travel rumblings |
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Tags: airport drop-off prices, airport pick-up prices, Manchester Airport
Mar 1st, 2019 |
By Kaye Holland
The regular monthly column that keeps you abreast of some of the changes in travel starts with a story about Nicaragua
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on What’s hot: March 2019
Tags: Australia, Darwin, Israel, Manchester Airport, Nicaragua, Northern Territory, Route 66, Tel Aviv, UK, Uzbekistan
Dec 20th, 2018 |
By The Editor
Should you or should you not wrap Christmas presents if you are flying out of the country?
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
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Tags: Chrsitmas presents on flights, Manchester Airport
Sep 25th, 2018 |
By The Editor
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?
Posted in Travel rumblings |
Comments Off on Has the aviation industry gone too far?
Tags: airport drop-off charges, carry-on luggage charges, Judge Lever, Manchester Airport, Ryanair
Jun 7th, 2018 |
By The Editor
The claims handling company, Air Help, has published an airport global performance survey and neither UK airports nor airlines come out of it very well.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on How bad are our airports?
Tags: ACI, Air Help, Edinburgh Airport, Gatwick, Manchester Airport, Stansted
Aug 26th, 2017 |
By Adrian Lawes
Chianti and volcanoes and are two of the things that attracted Adrian’s attention this week.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets: August26th 2017
Tags: Cunard, Cyprus., Florence, Germany, Italy, Manchester Airport, Norwegian Bliss, Norwegian Cruise Line, Panzano, QE2, Schotten, Spanish airport workers, Vilkaneum
Jul 21st, 2017 |
By The Editor
You may not have heard of NATS but for every holidaymaker flying out of UK air space they are vital as they are the provider of air traffic control services. And today they say that it will be the busiest day ever in the skies above the UK. They expect to handle a record breaking 8,800 flights in and out of the country just today. During the summer NATS expects to handle more than 770,000 flights, an increase by 40,000 from last year. That 5.2%
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Posted in Travel news |
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Tags: Cardiff Airport, Flight Delays, Luton Airport, Manchester Airport, NATS
Feb 4th, 2017 |
By Adrian Lawes
Security concerns at Cambeltown Airport, taxes, sales and St Bernard’s seem to be to the fore this week. Luckily it is time for the comedy festivals to come along and cheer me up!
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets: 4th February 2017
Tags: APD, Argentina, Aruba, bmi regional, Bray Comedy Festival, British Airways, Campeltown Airport, Capital Region, Chris Grayling, Destinations Show, Family & Friends railcard, Flybe, Jamaica, Leicester Comedy Festival, Manchester Airport, Virgin trains
Jan 14th, 2017 |
By Adrian Lawes
Stonehenge, Club 55, Star Wars and medical assistance abroad compete with children’s attitudes to holidays in Adrian’s column this week. And there is the almost obligatory Southern rail story.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets: 14th January 2017
Tags: Aberdeen Airport, Arriva Trains Wales, Belfast International Airport, Cardiff Airport, children and holiday decision-making, Club 55, Edinburgh Airport, Ferens Art Gallery, Glasgow Airport, GWR, Hull, Inverness Airport, London City Airport, Los Angeles, Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Manchester Airport, Push Doctor, Scotland, skiing, STA Travel, Stansted, Stonehenge, The News Quiz, V-Room lounge, Villa Plus, Virgin Holidays
Jan 12th, 2017 |
By The Editor
In the Chinese calendar, this year it is the Year of the Rooster and, although it may still be a few weeks away, here are two celebrations that are away from the normal parades.
Posted in Travel news |
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Tags: John Lewis - Birmingham, Manchester Airport, Year of the Rooster
Dec 28th, 2016 |
By The Editor
Before she flew she rang the airline, Eurowings, and Manchester Airport and was told that taking her wooden knitting needles as hand luggage was fine. The bamboo knitting needles were used openly during the flight as the image here suggests.
Posted in Travel rumblings |
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Tags: airline security, carrying sharp implements on planes, Eurowings, knitting, knitting needles as hand luggage, Manchester Airport
Dec 10th, 2016 |
By Adrian Lawes
Christmas festivities begin to appear in Adrian’s column along with tigers, all night tube services, how intellectually disabled passengers should be treated and what happened when Santa met Ryanair.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets: 10th December 2016
Tags: 24 hour London Underground service, Beaver Creek Mountain, Cardiff, Chirk, CMV, Colorado, Desert Botanical Garden, Gatwick, GoOpti, India, Las Noches de las Luminarias, Manchester Airport, Newport, Phoenix, Phoenix Zoo, Steven Patterson MP, Uber, Uttarakhand, VAT on tourism, Winter Park
Sep 17th, 2016 |
By Adrian Lawes
In the week that it was suggested the old blue passports might return after Brexit, Adrian also looks at visas, the Heathrow/Gatwick debate, Roald Dahl and Bridge Day which attracts 200,000 people to West Virginia
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets: 17th September 2016
Tags: Birmingham Airport, Boris Johnstone, Cardiff, Celtic Colours International Festival, City of the Unexpected, Gatwick, Harry Potter Festival, Heathrow, Jet 2, Manchester Airport, National Parks in Scotland, Philadelphia, Roald Dahl, Scottish Campaign for National Parks, Ski Club, Stansted, Thailand, West Virginia, zika
Apr 14th, 2016 |
By The Editor
The most interesting story of the week – even if there are a few days to go – has to be the one concerning Manchester Airport and its sniffer dogs.
Posted in Travel rumblings |
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Tags: Border Force, cheese hunting sniffer dogs, Manchester Airport, sniffer dogs
Apr 9th, 2016 |
By Adrian Lawes
We visited florida and Germany in bumper numbers last year but strkes and Butlin’s birthday also occupy Adrian’s summary of the week.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets: 9th April 2016
Tags: ATOL. Elixir, automated luggage drop-off points, Butlins, easyjet, Emirates, Europa Park, Festival International de Louisiane, Florida, Germany, Jewel in the Crown, Las Vegas, Manchester Airport, National Museum of Wales, New Orleans, Panama, SPEEDVEGAS
Nov 7th, 2015 |
By Adrian Lawes
A stay in your own castle, airline disruption in Germany and Indonesia are a few of the things that catch Adrian’s eye this week.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets: 7th November 2015
Tags: Aalborg, Andrew Bridgen MP, Bali, Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Brno, Czech Republic, Denmark, disruptive passengers, easyjet, Egypt, First Rate Exchange Services, Holiday Confidence Index, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Manchester Airport, Pentillie Castle, Ras al Khaimah, Royal Brunei Airlines, Stansted
Oct 17th, 2015 |
By Adrian Lawes
The new James Bond film and claims that various parts of the world are linked attract Adrian’s attention this week along with fuel surcharges and disruptive passenger behaviour
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets: 17th October 2015
Tags: Austria, Disruptive passenger behaviour, James Bond, Jet 2, Manchester Airport, Priority Pass, Spectre, Stansted, Tenerife, Thomas Cook, Thomson, Tirol, Tunisia
May 24th, 2015 |
By Adrian Lawes
In a major study of over 542,000 passengers who flew abroad from the UK last year, Just about Travel has found that many people did not use their nearest airport.
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
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Tags: airport leakage, Bristol Airport, Cardiff Airport, Exeter Airport, Gatwick Airport, local airports, Manchester Airport
Oct 19th, 2013 |
By Adrian Lawes
From the nether regions of the media come some of the travel stories you might have missed this week
Posted in Travel news |
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Tags: Air India, Azores, Colin Bryan, Drayton Manor Theme Park, Manchester Airport, Manston Airport, Sardinia, Vera Bryan
Nov 7th, 2011 |
By The Editor
Remember voting for which travel companies you thought were the best in the British Travel Awards? Altogether, 700,000 votes were received. Last Wednesday the winners were announced.
Posted in Travel news |
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Tags: Alton Towers, Australia, British Travel Awards 2011, Cornwll, Disneyland, East Midlands Airport, Eden Project, Emirates, Florida, Manchester Airport, Manchester Airport Group, New York, Parkdean, Shearings, St Ives, St Moritz, Thomas Cook, Thomson Holidays, Virgin Holidays
Jun 19th, 2011 |
By The Editor
This daft idea was put up fourteen regional airports in the UK to the APD consultation process. They have jointly signed a submission saying that replacing APD with tax on the busiest airports would stimulate the regions.
Posted in Travel rumblings |
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Tags: Air Passenger Duty, APD, Manchester Airport, Prestwick Airport, regional air passenger taxation
Oct 27th, 2010 |
By Adrian Lawes
Don’t countries want us to visit them? Have many got a tourism death wish that they cannot understand?
Austria has decided to follow Germany and introduce an eco- tax from January 2011 on passengers leaving from its airports. Just in time for the skiing season, the time when the largest number of visitors will be expected. They will charge €8 to fly to a European destination and €40 elsewhere. And how much will this tax bring them? Estimates vary from between €50-€70 million per year. And how much will they lose as visitors decide to go elsewhere
Posted in Travel rumblings |
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Tags: Air Asia, Air Passenger Duty, Austria, Climate Change, eco-taxes, Germany, Manchester Airport, Netherlands
May 16th, 2010 |
By Adrian Lawes
UPDATE: 17 MAY the Department of Homeland Security tells us that the greeen I-94 card will still be used for the time being (probably at least a year) as things run in parallel until a decision is made on when the I-94 can be dropped. They also confirm that on your first entry to the US you will have to have all 10 fingerprints made but on subsequent visits only the four fingers of the right hand will be required to be fingerprinted as this will provide a sufficient match with the previous data that they have recorded
Posted in Travel rumblings |
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Tags: airport fingerprinting, Body Scanners, Department of Homeland Security, ESTA, I-94, Manchester Airport
Jan 10th, 2010 |
By Adrian Lawes
Last week The Sunday Times wrote a piece by Matt Rudd about how unfriendly airports are to children. It presupposes the question that airports are supposed to be friendly in the first place. Not just for children but for everyone.
Airports are there to enable you to catch a flight to somewhere so surely the prime aim is to get you through and out as soon as possible? If you are flying in then the same applies. It is get you off the plane and out into the real world. Then some bright spark decided to add duty free shops, then cafés, then restaurants, then shops, then lounges, then viewing areas and places where you can spend £20 on a ticket to win a car. All of a sudden they were bigger than villages. All they need is a Tesco or a Sainsbury and I can do my weekly shop there as well
Posted in Travel rumblings |
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Tags: Airport Lounges, Airports, Gatwick, Heathrow, London City Airport, Manchester Airport, Newquay
Dec 22nd, 2009 |
By Adrian Lawes
In a view that surprised nearly everyone, probably including BAA themselves, there has been a ruling that BAA may not have to sell of one of their Scottish airports (Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow) nor dispose of Stansted. BAA appealed against the decision of the Competition Commission and the Competition Appeal Tribunal has agreed with BAA.
Why?
Because of a technicality.
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Tags: Aberdeen Airport, BAA, Competition Commission, Edinburgh Airport, Glasgow Airport, Manchester Airport
Dec 13th, 2009 |
By Adrian Lawes
This is the time of the year when the National Customer Service Awards are announced. In any industry service is important. Good service leads to satisfaction. Satisfaction can lead to loyalty and repeat business. No customer likes being ill treated, ignored, patronised or fobbed off with meaningless official waffle so awards that support good service are welcome. But travel and tourism doesn’t seem to have done to well in this year’s awards. Is that because they didn’t enter or they did but weren’t shortlisted for the final?
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Tags: Butlins, Chiltern Railways, Cross Country, customer satisfaction., Customer Service, Manchester Airport, National Maritime Museum, Virgin Holidays