Within a week of KLM announcing that customers are to be given “more choice”, by charging separately for check-in bags, British Airways launches “hand baggage only” fares. This is a different way of introducing a charge for baggage. It’s promoted as a saving, because hand baggage only fare is lower than their normal price by […]
read more »Our recommended search engine has today been featured by the BBC due to the phenomenal growth of the company. Skyscanner, a company based in Edinburgh, receives 30 million visitors per month and the search engine facilitates £2.3 billion annual air travel. But, our reason for hosting Skyscanner is that for booking and researching business travel, […]
read more »easyJet begin their daily Gatwick to Moscow services on Monday March 18 with fares of less than £120 return. The airline is filling the gap left by BMI who used to fly the route and were taken over by British Airways, with prices of £47.49 outbound and £62.49 inbound, on sale from today. British Airways return […]
read more »I received a letter from BMI today, announcing the end of the vestiges of BMI Airlines. BMI were taken over by British Airways – or IAG (international Airline Group), earlier this year although BMI Regional still operate a network of flights The BMI Diamond club scheme is now, to all intents and purposes, dead. However, […]
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 »Due to a national strike in Belgium due to take place on Wednesday 3rd October, no Eurostar service will operate to Brussels between 10pm on Tuesday night to 10pm Wednesday night 6 shuttles will operate as far as Lille. Lille is 112km from Brussels and a 1½ hour drive. There is a bus service from […]
read more »With the addition of 9,000 hotels from the Italian Specialist, Initalia our recommended search engine Hotels Combined now offers approximately 330,000 properties. It ensures that the booking engine stays ahead in respect of the range of accommodation and availability.
read more »The normal practise of charging for check-in baggage is understandable because the airline incurs a charge too. But Wizz Air is to charge a fee of EUR10 to carry on anything larger than a laptop size bag of 42x32x25cm And the weight restriction will be just 10kg The trial is on Luton – Katowice services […]
read more »Transfer your BMI Diamond Club “destination miles” to the BA executive club The transfer rate is 1.1 and we recommend that you transfer now. Login to the BA executive club page and click on “manage my account” where you have the option to “combine my Avios” The instructions are simple but you’ll need your BMI […]
read more »British Airways has launched a clever advertising campaign that may go viral. By entering your postcode, you’ll see your street featured in the commercial. I’ve just seen my flat through the aircraft window – quite brilliant! The advert urges us, “don’t fly, support team GB” Try it now at http://taxi.ba.com/ If you decide to disregard […]
read more »Schedules are yet to be finalised but we believe that due to engineering works in the tunnel, there will be reduced train services on the following days Saturday & Sunday 29 & 30 September Monday 1 October Saturday 13 & 14 October In addition, there will be restrictions on trains to Paris and Disney due […]
read more »For Premier Class only, coach number 8 and 11 will be designated quiet coaches from 11 September 2012 Amusingly, Eurostar state that “due to the nature of” direct trains to Disney, they cannot guarantee that there will be quiet coaches on that service, nor on Ski destinations If you need to pre book specific Eurostar […]
read more »The Ryanair website will be closed for maintenance over this weekend – during which time online check-in and boarding pass printing and new bookings will not be possible Bookings and flight changes cannot be made from 10pm on Friday until 10pm Saturday Online Check-in not available from 4pm Friday until 12 noon Sunday
read more »Some changes have been announced to Etihad complimentary chauffeur service…. Etihad frequent flier members, Gold and Silver, continue to receive free chauffeurs for departure and arrivals throughout the Etihad network. If stopping in Abu Dhabi in each direction, that’s a total of 8 chauffeur transfers! But for non members or those that haven’t attained Silver […]
read more »Following a trial at Gatwick Airport, London City Airport is to offer passengers a self-tag your bag option. This is yet another move to alleviate what were traditional duties of the airline staff to do-it-yourself. All in the name of cost saving efficiency no doubt but what next? Fly your own plane?
read more »Indian airline Kingfisher will cease flights between the UK and India from 10th April 2012 The airline offered through fares from the UK to many destinations and was consistently cheaper than other airlines. Recently, the airline was suspended from IATA’s billing programme, BSP. This raises questions regarding refund procedures for passengers holding Kingfisher bookings for […]
read more »The 24 days of strikes that were scheduled for March April and May 2012 have been cancelled. The pilots are back at the negotiating table.
read more »For the period of the Arab League Summit the airport will be closed Airlines are offering full refunds and those that fly to other destinations (Etihad to Erbil for example) may allow passengers to reroute. NB Erbil is in the North of Iraq Use our “Who-flies-where” Skyscanner widget to the right of this article to […]
read more »Iberia pilots have cancelled plans to strike on Friday, 16th March and Monday, 19th March 2012 The airline was offering full refunds for tickets purchased before 12th March 2012 or the option to rebook on alternative Iberia flights. Future strike dates may also be cancelled and we are awaiting confirmation. They were anticipated to be […]
read more »The American College of Chest Physicians have published “evidence based” guidlines. They suggest that alcohol intake and economy class do not in themselves increase the risk of DVT But they suggest that sitting in a window seat with consequential reduction in mobility increases the risk. As does the use of oral contraceptives, advanced age, pregnancy, […]
read more »Finally! The low cost carrier now includes their fees in the initial quote, rather than further down the booking process. They shouldn’t be charging as much as they do for using plastic, but at least they are now being upfront about it. Meanwhile, Ryanair has introduced yet another fee of typically £2.00 per flight to […]
read more »Most people know Expedia as an online travel agent for leisure bookings but the company also operates a Travel Management Company by the name of EGENCIA. EGENCIA has acquired TRAVELDOO technologies, founded in France in 2000 TRAVELDOO provides booking management technology to Travel Management Companies. Their products assist travel clients with Travel planning, Online Bookings, […]
read more »Your travel management company (TMC) will assign you an Account Manager. The role is purportedly to ensure that you the client gets the most price competitive arrangement out of the business relationship but in actuality, and behind the scenes, the role is an account manager is primarily to maximise the profit for the TMC. To […]
read more »Baggage fees are increasing for departures during June, July August and September 2012 from £20 per bag to £25 Bags that are booked through call centres or at the airport (as opposed to online) will increase from £35 to £60 per bag From January 15th, the charge to issue a boarding card at the airport […]
read more »Companies will book business travel online – wherever the best deal is According to travel industry news provider, e-tid.com, a leading think tank of travel industry executives who are members of the World Travel Market Club have agreed that there is a trend towards unmanaged business travel, and that that is set to increase over […]
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