Airport workers who handle check-in, baggage and cargo have announced strike date of 23 December for 48 hours
At this time we do not know what the impact will be.
Our advice? Consider travelling with hand-baggage only, if possible.
Monthly Archives: December 2016
BA Strike 25 & 26 December 2016 Key Points
British Airways Strike Dates Sunday 25 and Monday 26 December 2016
Does not affect London City airport or London Gatwick airport
All long-haul flights expected to operate to normal schedules
The short-haul routes listed below are being reviewed and BA is offering refunds or free rebooking to travel the same route as originally ticketed and to travel within 355 days.
Warning:
If you apply for a refund and then discover the flight is operating and should you wish to travel as originally planned you will be treated as a new passenger and charged what will most likely be a very high last-minute fare!
Our advice? Wait and see. And use our recommended flight-monitor tools on our useful sites page.
Routes liable to cancellation, Between London Heathrow and:
Aberdeen, Bergen, Belfast City, Bilbao, Bologna, Basel, Budapest, Dusseldorf,
Gibraltar, Gothenburg, Hannover, Hamburg, Helsinki, Kiev, Krakow, St. Petersburg,
Lisbon, Luxembourg, Manchester, Paris Orly, Oslo, Prague, Pisa, Stuttgart,
Stavanger, Venice, Vienna, Warsaw, Zagreb.
Skyscanner can only get better!
We have always recommended skyscanner for general flight search and have hosted their search widget on our flight search page.
The company, based in Scotland, has always been best for the UK market with better links to more UK low-cost carriers than other companies such as Kayak from the USA, etc.
And we are delighted that Chinese company Ctrip has bought Skyscanner for $1.75 billion
Gareth Williams of CEO Skyscanner said to Tnooz,
“Ctrip is the leading OTA in China and working with it allows us to deepen our understanding and offering to the Chinese market, where we’ve already seen great success, as well as leverage Ctrip’s product investments and insights.
In short, this allows Skyscanner to strengthen and augment its existing offering, ensuring that it’s the world leader in the metasearch field.”
We say, from the perspective of a daily users of Skyscanner, that there will be benefits in terms of content of the China market which is rapidly expanding.
And that content will assist the many of us that are unfamiliar with Chinese cities and airport codes enormously.