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The Travel Industry is in serious trouble - I've never seen anything like it. The last 48hrs has seen things change by the hour! Cashflow is going to kill many businesses in the sector - Airlines, Hotels, Tour Operators, Agents etc.. the list goes on.... It's not so much a question of what...

I'm in the Trade, it's a bandwagon that a number of Airlines (Etihad, Emirates, Virgin, BA and others) are jumping on. Not sure about BA, but most of the others are just not charging fees, if you book onto a more expensive flight, you have to pay the difference in fare. A lot of Tour Operators...

A positive Stat for the UK (at the moment obviously) is that our Incidence per 1M of Population is only 4.7 and plenty of other countries have worse Incidence rates - is it because we are better at containing, is being an Island helping us or have we just got lucky?

For me (and it's just my opinion!) is that broadly people are split into 2 camps - either looking at the figures as at now and putting those numbers into current context which suggests that it is being blown out of all proportion OR listening to what Experts in the field are saying and nailing...

I'm on numerous Travel forums and today somebody posted that in the Swine Flu Pandemic of 2009, in the middle of July there were 110,000 cases reported in one week in the UK - i.e more in one week than the total number of Coronavirus cases globally today. What they failed to mention is that the...

Both different cases to Flybe - Monarch and particularly Cooks were so deep in the mire financially, it would have been the Government throwing good money after bad. Flybe are a predominantly domestic regional carrier who are key to one part of the Conservative's Manifesto to develop and...

They say a little bit of knowledge is dangerous, but the example above from Amazon for £14 goes up to 200w - depending on the Kettle, that would need 5-10 times that, so at best it wouldn't work efficiently. You can buy specific kettles that plug into the ciggie lighter in the car and according...

I'm no electrician but plugging a kettle with a 3 pin plug into an in car 12v converter doesn't sound the greatest idea? Sent from my FIG-LX1 using Tapatalk

I have my own Travel Business and I'm following this thread with great interest - January is known as "Peaks" in this business when describing it to the general public, we in the trade affectionately call it "Silly Season" - BG you are taking the latter to new levels, please keep it up!

Ken Goodeve is a member at our Golf Club - great bloke and is happy to recount being signed by Brian Clough and what happened after that!!!

It's all a bit ambiguous I suspect because the CAA have to set up and train a Call Centre to deal with 800,000 forward bookings, so that isn't fully up to speed yet and they need to qualify what is covered as Cooks sold more than just their own package holidays. From my understanding of your...

https://thomascook.caa.co.uk/customers/if-you-have-a-future-booking-and-have-not-traveled-yet/

As the phrase goes "each to their own" and I totally respect anybody who prefers to do things different ways. I will say that I class myself as internet savvy and always used to DIY my own travel. So much so that when redundancy reared it's ugly head 5yrs ago, I took a career change and bought...

I think the point people are missing here is the definition of a package which all changed last year via the Package Travel Regulations 2018. These days anything you buy from one website or Travel Agent on one invoice including any two of the following: flights/hotel/car hire/tourist service...

And all those people that did exactly that buying Cooks flights as one element are in a heap of pain, particularly if the Hotel is non refundable (card won't cover that as they didn't go under) and if travel is in the next couple of months, they are having to pay a shed load more to cover their...

Compare the Thomas Cook model to the Jet2 Holidays model. I appreciate that Jet2 haven't got as far south as Gatwick (that may change now!) but Cooks had a lot of bricks and mortar, acquisitions which haven't worked out and legacy systems (you try dealing with their Trade systems!!) Jet2...

This only applies to Hotels where the Tour Op negotiates the Hotel to be exclusive to them (or UK exclusive for some) Cooks primarily had exclusivity on their Sentido Hotels, although they are continuing to trade as not technically owned by Cooks. Tui have "Sensatori" hotels, they also own part...

Where do I start with this? I have my own Travel Business and it depends how you define "Package" as all that has changed with Regulation. I'm presuming you mean a company that only sells "package" holidays utilising it's own in house airline? Firstly the definition of package is any...

I'm self employed and work from home - I have a VOIP contract where unlimited calls to landlines and mobiles costs me £19.99 +vat per month. International calls are buttons. You need a decent handset - think I paid about £80. Apart from that, just an ethernet cable between the router and the...

In respect of the smack it where you like and drop one if you don't find anywhere in the vicinity under penalty - according to the R&A this was bought in to appease our American friends (USGA) as they wanted it. However its not a specific rule of golf, it can only be bought in to your Club if...