Posts Tagged ‘
Bristol Airport ’
Nov 12th, 2020 |
By The Editor
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
Posted in Travel news |
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Tags: Bristol Airport, Cardiff Airport, Jet 2, Jet 2 Holidays, TUI
Mar 12th, 2019 |
By The Editor
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.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Awards to airports for customer experience
Tags: ACI, Bristol Airport, customer service at airports, Dublin Airport, London City, Newcastle Airport, Southampton Airport
Feb 12th, 2019 |
By The Editor
My forecast would be that if it is devolved and abolished in Wales, the tax will shortly disappear entirely.
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Devolving APD to Wales
Tags: APD, APD abolition, Bristol Airport, Cardiff Airport, Scotland, Wales
Jul 23rd, 2018 |
By The Editor
According to Bristol Airport, nearly half of work trips are more pleasure than business.
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
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Tags: Bristol Airport, business tourism
Nov 3rd, 2017 |
By The Editor
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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Posted in Travel news |
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Tags: APD, Bristol Airport, Cardiff Airport, Carwyn Jones, Scotland, Wales
Dec 23rd, 2016 |
By The Editor
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.
Posted in Travel news |
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Tags: Bristol Airport, South Wales, Southwest England, York Aviation
Dec 17th, 2016 |
By Adrian Lawes
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.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets: 17th December 2016
Tags: Bristol Airport, Brownsville, credit card fees, Delray Beach, easyjet, Gatwick, Glasgow Airport rail link, Jet 2, Karl McCartney MP, Luton Airport, Miami, Monarch, On the Beach, Southend Airport, Thomson Holidays, TUI, UK cultural heritage, Venice, Zika virus
Oct 22nd, 2016 |
By Adrian Lawes
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…
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets: 22nd October 2016
Tags: Brighton, Bristol Airport, Cardiff Airport, Costa Daurada, EU261, Flybe, Greece, HolidayTravelWatch, Kos, Margaret Ritchie MP, Rally de Tapas, spain, Tim Farron MP, Travelzoo, VT on tourism services
Jul 30th, 2016 |
By Adrian Lawes
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!
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets: 30th of July 2016
Tags: Air France, Beatrix Potter, Birdland Park & Gardens, Bristol Airport, Cruising, France, Hiroshima, Holocaust Memorial Museum, Kosrae Nautilus Resort, Lake District, Massachusetts, Melton Mowbray, Micronesia, PieFest, Pokemon Go, Queen Elizabeth I, Warwick Castle
Dec 19th, 2015 |
By Adrian Lawes
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.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets: 19th December 2015
Tags: Belfast International Airport, Bristol Airport, Budapest, Camping-and-co.com, camping. caravanningg, Clarks Village, Frankfurt Airport, Gatwick, German National Tourist Office, German National Travel Writers Awards, Israel, Japanese Air Lines, Montenegro, Tel Aviv, Warsaw, WowTravel.me.
Nov 28th, 2015 |
By Adrian Lawes
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
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets: 28th November 2015
Tags: Arco da Rua Augusta, “The Enchanted Doors”, Bristol Airport, El Brujo, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, Jamaica, Lisbon, National Arboretum, Peru, Pink Friday, Sharm El Sheikh, The Gorgeous Kitchen, Tracey Crouch, WOW air, Wyoming
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 |
Comments Off on Why we don’t use our local airports
Tags: airport leakage, Bristol Airport, Cardiff Airport, Exeter Airport, Gatwick Airport, local airports, Manchester Airport
Oct 26th, 2013 |
By Adrian Lawes
Another selection of stories about travel from the week just ending that includes rail, flights and another discovery in a car park.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets – 26 October 2013
Tags: Air Passenger Duty, Armagh Gaol, Baroness Kramer, Birmingham, Bristol Airport, Croatia, Dingwall, Dubrovnik, Gatwick Airport, Gisela Stuart, Midland Expressway, Philippine Air Lines, Taiwan, Thorfinn the Mighty
Apr 17th, 2011 |
By The Editor
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?
Posted in Travel rumblings |
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Tags: bmi baby, Bristol Airport, Cardiff Airport