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Centro, a UK based organisation operating bus, rail and the Midland Metro Tram transport in the West Midlands area, is launching a new visitor and transport information system. The new transportation information system, Interconnect Birmingham, is a collaboration between Centro, Marketing Birmingham, Birmingham City Council, Colmore Business District and Retail Birmingham. The system includes maps of important destinations and attractions in the Birmingham area, with information on walking, cycling, bus, tram and train routes. At the launch of the new system, the Centro chairman, Cllr John McNicholas, said, ‘Having clear directions and travel information can make a big difference to…
East Midlands Airport, operated by Manchester Airports Group, is to become a gateway to worldwide travel with the commencement of flights to Paris by Air France. The new Paris service, which will be carried out via a new code share agreement with UK-based low-cost airline, Flybe, will be twice daily and commence from the 28th of this month. Passengers will then be able to connect with Air France’s Paris hub at Charles De Gaulle Airport, and the 180 worldwide destinations that the French airline has to offer from there. This adds to other existing code share arrangements between the two…
If you’re a homeowner, you should certainly have building insurance, which protects you in the event of damage to the fabric of your home. Contents insurance is arguably essential too – especially if you couldn’t replace the contents of your home easily. Contents insurance can protect your furniture, electrical goods and appliances, clothes, etc. These types of home insurance are all the more important if you’re planning on going away for a while. Your home could be at a higher risk of burglary while you’re away, and if anything happened to your home or its contents you could be left…
In these times of enforced austerity, holidaymakers will obviously be looking at ways to trim their budgets, and according to the findings of a new survey it is their generosity when tipping that has seen one of the biggest cutbacks. The survey, which was undertaken by International Currency Exchange (ICE), a currency exchange operator, has revealed that 40 percent of British travellers have reduced their tipping levels when travelling abroad, and that 45 percent do not think to allow for tipping when planning their holiday budget. Having carried out a similar survey 12 months ago, the company can confirm a…
Not everyone considers the miserable deluge that was the British summer of 2012 to be a bad thing; it helped Jet2 holidays to achieve healthy passenger figures, as holidaymakers seized the opportunity to fly off to the sun. The low-cost operator, which has its headquarters at Leeds Bradford Airport in the UK, almost doubled its passenger throughput for this summer season, thanks in no small part to the unseasonable washout. In the six months ending September this year, Jet2 transported 312,000 passengers, which was a 97 percent increase on the 158,000 that flew with the airline during the same period…
EasyJet, the budget airline with its headquarters at Luton Airport in the UK, has launched a new website specifically aimed at users in the USA. The website has been launched to cater to the growing demand for the airline’s services from US-based travellers. In addition to a US-dedicated home page, American users that visit the site will find that they can now make advance bookings with the airline in US dollars. The marketing director for easyJet, Peter Duffy, is reported as saying, ‘More than 90,000 US customers visit easyJet.com every week and this number continues to grow. The USA now…
US officials are to pilot high-speed trains on the Amtrak line as a forerunner to introducing them in the US. Trains that connect Chicago and St. Louis will be tested at speeds of up to 110mph. The speed is a 30mph increase compared to the current top speed. While some sections of the population feel that the trains would herald significant economic and social changes in the region, some analysts are sceptical that the project would be profitable. They even doubt that the opening of a faster train service would provide serious competition to air and automobile travel, or that…
Tourism-sector heads in Scotland have said that the nation’s vast array of wind turbines is detrimental to the promotion of tourism. The comments come as plans are afoot to build turbines at Minnygap in Dumfriesshire, and they contradict the recent comments made by Scotland’s first minister, Alex Salmond, who said that wind farms ‘enhance our appeal as a country.’ There are already as many 2,700 turbines in Scotland, and councils receive seven applications a day to open new turbines. VisitScotland recently said that plans to erect turbines on a site north of Dumfries could have a ‘detrimental effect’ on tourism.…
For the second consecutive day, fog has brought delays to the arrival and departure schedules of a number of British airports. The poor visibility has caused further delays to schedules that have already been hit by the effects of a general strike in France. At Heathrow, the UK’s busiest airport, in excess of 120 inbound and outbound flights were cancelled, while many more have suffered delays of various durations. Two other airports that serve the capital, London City airport and Stansted, have also suffered disruption to their schedules, while Newcastle in the northeast of England has also cancelled flights. Easyjet…
The Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) has registered its opposition to plans to bring forward to 2013 the ban on ‘above cost’ credit and debit card charges. The ban on credit card charges is to be imposed by the British government, in response to growing consumer anger over their use by a range of retail industries, including the travel industry. It was recently proposed by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills’ consultation that the ban be brought forward to next year. In its response, ABTA has argued that its members, agents and operators in the travel industry will…