This brilliant and concise article by the British Airports Authority explains the impact of fog on Heathrow’s operations. It answers the commonly asked questions such as: Why does fog cause delays (with all our technology)? Why can other airports cope when Heathrow cannot? Why cancel flights in advance? Who cancels flights? After reading this, I […]
read more »Anyone having tried to book flights on Ryanair will know how painful the process is! And the boss of Ryanair Michael O’leary has admitted that, “We have got to stop making it so difficult” Initially, the airline makes you type or guess what the code is before you can even get a quote. This is […]
read more »If you are a frequent traveller, you’ll probably belong to several loyalty schemes, both airline and hotel. And you may also collect shopping points such as Nectar, or Tesco Clubcard and perhaps Shell petrol etc Awardwallet.com provides an online facility to file all your various memberships and check them automatically in one place. An excellent […]
read more »Roomkey is an online hotel booking engine. It has been created by a collaboration of the following hotel chains: Hilton Hyatt Intercontinental Wyndham Marriott Choice hotels And Roomkey recently signed up agreements with: La Quinta Millenium Hotels & Resorts Leading Hotels of the World It’s important to recognise that Roomkey is not a hotel comparison […]
read more »Several new hotel booking companies have emerged online and we review a selection here. We’ve considered three questions: Is the website quick, friendly and easy to use? How many hotels are featured? Are the rates competitive? We searched for hotels in some obscure European towns to compare content major cities to compare actual hotel rates […]
read more »I absolutely love this app for UK national rail. It provides up-to-the-minute station information e.g. 2 minute delay on the train that I’m running for… I’ve found it to be more accurate than station announcements. It meets my criteria: Fun to use, intuitive and useful. It gets information directly from the ATOC system (Association Train […]
read more »www.superfly.com mocks other search engines such as KAYAK as being outdated so we thought we should take a look. Yes the site is slick and simple. Yes, you can access all your frequent flier / memberships from one dashboard, which is nice, but others services do that too. When it comes to flight search, the […]
read more »I had to search long and hard to find a live Eurostar Arrivals and Departures Board. The official St Pancras International arrivals and departures are available here but the system does not recognise Paris or Brussels! You’ll need to scan through ALL arriving trains and departures including domestic train services Surprisingly, the best live Eurostar […]
read more »I’ve used my travel agency background experience to select what we consider to be the most useful and essential travel apps using the following criteria: Intuitive – no instruction manuals! Instant gratification – fun to use. Genuinely useful Unbiased accurate and live information The Apps Organiser – save time by organising your travel apps Create […]
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