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Newcastle airport blames ash cloud for passenger decline
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23/08/10
Newcastle Airport has blamed strike threats and the ash cloud crisis for its 1.7% decline in year on year decline in passenger numbers. “We...
Taj Palace Mumbai reopens
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18/08/10
The Taj Mahal Palace in Mumbai has re-opened the restored Palace Wing, which was damaged by the 2008 terrorist attacks. Speaking at a preview press...
Goldtrail and late bookings blamed for Kiss failure
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18/08/10
The boss of Kiss Flights’ parent company has blamed over overcapacity and the demise of Goldtrail for the collapse of the seat-only operator...
One in five are hit with baggage fees at airports!!!
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17/08/10
One in five passengers has been affected by baggage charges this summer, according to lastminute.com. A survey by the website has shown that...
BAA and Unite talks begin
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17/08/10
BAA and Unite have agree a pay deal which will stop strike action going ahead at six major UK airports. Details of the pay increase have not been...
Airlines failing disabled passengers
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13/08/10
Disabled travellers are forced to pay more for airline seats which suit their needs, according to Access Travel. Recently, carriers have begun...
Sun4U collapses
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13/08/10
More than 1,000 holiday makers have been left stranded abroad after the collapse of travel firm Sun4U. The company's website has ceased trading and...
BAA workers vote for strike action
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13/08/10
Unite has announced that 74.1% of BAA staff who voted in its latest ballot are in favour of strike action. A total of 3,055 of the airport operator...
Try and make sure that EHIC card is up to date!!
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09/08/10
Holidaymakers are being urged to carry valid EHIC cards to ensure their travel insurance claims are not rejected. Moneysupermarket.com Travel Expert...
BA passenger capacity falls
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09/08/10
British Airways has poste a 2.6% fall year-on-year in Revenue Passenger Kilometres (RPK) for the month of July. Passenger capacity also dropped 1.9...
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Six of world's best wild-water swims
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Mexico Can’t do cold water? Then the Sea of Cortes should tick your boxes; the average temperature in the briny here is 25C . You will be based on Espiritu Santo island in Baja California, and the swimming during the week-long trip (about 6km each day) is along beaches and through coves and bays where you may be an object of curiosity for inquisitive sea lions.
20 best seaside villas in Europe
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1 Eco Fisherman’s Cottage, Lanzarote, Spain This solar-powered fisherman’s cottage on the seafront in the pretty fishing village of Arrieta, northeast Lanzarote, is a stone’s throw from a sandy cove. It sleeps two adults and two children, and has been lovingly converted: wood furniture, cream throws, plants and paintings, a fully fitted kitchen, two bathrooms and lounge opening out on to the promenade. The balcony has superb sea views and the shaded courtyard is perfect for alfresco dining. There are good coastal walking and cycling trails from the doorstep, and the mountain village of Haria is just a short drive away.
If it’s good enough for Keats...
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Iquestion if there be a room in England which commands a view of mountains and lakes and woods superior to that in which I am now writing.” If you read that in a holiday-home company’s blurb, you might dismiss it as a touch flowery. But when you learnt that the copywriter was a Mr Coleridge, you’d sit up and take notice. You might even want to stay there. And you can.
The forgotten islands off Sweden’s coast
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Karin Holmstrom lives at the ends of the earth, but it’s easy enough to pay her a visit. Just give some kroner to a boatman in the village of Fjällbacka on the west coast of Sweden and he’ll run you 12 miles (20km) out to sea to a place where water and sky are broken by low, bare rocks that seem to inhabit the middle of nowhere. On one of these stark, treeless outposts, waiting to greet you at a little wooden jetty, is Karin.
Where Raymond Blanc eats on holiday
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I have always said that food is the best healer. So when I smashed my leg in five places by falling down my stairs in March, I knew that I needed to find an hotel with a great restaurant where I could convalesce. Naturally, I thought that France would be the best antidote to melancholy and the Provençal spring sun the best provider of vitamin D.
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