Posts Tagged ‘ Bristol Airport ’

Now people in the south west will see the service and solid customer satisfaction levels for which the airline and holiday company has become well known

Four British airports as well as Dublin Airport appeared in the awards lists handed out by Airport Council international, (ACI) the trade association of the world’s airports, last week.

My forecast would be that if it is devolved and abolished in Wales, the tax will shortly disappear entirely.

According to Bristol Airport, nearly half of work trips are more pleasure than business.

Yesterday morning the First Minister, Carwyn Jones, said that the Welsh government would aim to scrap air passenger duty (APD) on long-haul flights if the tax was devolved to Cardiff. Nicola Sturgeon said similar things about APD when it was devolved to Scotland. She has run into problems implementing any change because it requires an EU decision. Jones will face the same problem so why say things he is unlikely to be able to deliver? The probable answer is that he only said it because
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The main reason for this leakage is that a person’s nearest airport doesn’t offer the destinations to which they want to fly to or that the schedules are inconvenient.

Christmas trees, (well it is that time of the year,) new transport facilities in Venice, more help for people with disabilities at airports and the end of the Thomson holiday name attract Adrian’s attention this week.

Bus arrivals, holiday safety and unhelpful tourism answers by government ministers are some of the things that helped exasperate Adrian this week. But then he was sent a picture of a bus sign…

In a week full of incident, peachicks, penguins, an Air France strike and Pokemon Go take Adrian’s attention before he goes off to visit the Big Cheese in Caerphilly today!

This week I start this column by blowing Just about Travel’s trumpet. In their German National Travel Writers Awards, the German National Tourist Office has voted us best in the online category for 2015.

Adrian wonders what the effect of the spending review will be on tourism and oloks at a huge montage being constructed at the National Arboretum

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.

Another selection of stories about travel from the week just ending that includes rail, flights and another discovery in a car park.

You would have thought by some of the stories that came out last week that Cardiff Airport was on its last legs. The announcement by bmi baby that it was leaving the airport and thus cancelling 10 routes caused all sorts of people to come out of the woodwork deploring the effect that this would have.
What tosh! Or is it?