Author: News Team
A new study has shown that Eurail Passes still remain hot favourites with travellers wanting to travel across Europe on a budget. The Eurail passes, a product of the Eurail Group, a Netherlands-based company that sells passes and tickets for European railroads, offers travellers a popular mode of transport for exploring the culture, cities and architecture of European destinations, even in this modern age of cheap, no-frills flights. In the study conducted by market research company, Infosurv.com, around 70 percent of Eurail Pass customers reported being satisfied or very satisfied with their rail experiences, and would recommend Eurail Pass journeys…
The Board of Airline Representatives (BAR UK), a UK-based industry association of UK airline operators, has said that Heathrow Airport in London is operating under capacity constraints, which may cause global airlines to forgo fights to the UK. A survey conducted by the association has revealed that around 53 percent of airlines surveyed will be increasing their services to other countries, instead of the UK, due to capacity constraints at UK airports. However, 86 percent of the airlines are interested in increasing their services to the UK, if Heathrow Airport was able to offer them more free slots. The survey…
With the 2012 Olympic Games less than 100 days away, the UK based car rental comparison website, Carrentals.co.uk, has advised overseas visitors to book their rentals in the UK well in advance. The company has stated that its website has registered a considerable increase in car rental bookings at important UK destinations around the 2012 Olympics venues and dates. The website statistics indicate that six times more US visitors have booked their rentals in the UK between July 20 and August 12, 2012, than for the same period last year. Around 40 percent of US visitor rentals are from the…
Customers using National Rail Enquiries in the UK will now be able to win gifts, an incentive introduced by the organisation as part of its expansion drive. National Rail Enquiries is a part of UK-based Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC), and is an information resource for all passenger rail services on the National Rail network in England, Wales and Scotland. The company is offering customers the chance to win gifts when using the online service to access personalised train journey information, after registering for the service at the company website by May 6, 2012. As part of its expansion…
Fairmont Hotels and Resorts, a Canada-based hotel company, has announced a new offer for its loyalty programme members visiting the Middle East. The company is offering a $25 hotel credit to all Fairmont President’s Club loyalty programme members that stay at any of its hotels in the Middle East. The hotel credit may be used at any of the onsite restaurants, at properties including the Fairmont Dubai Hotel, Dubai; Fairmont Bab al Bahr, Abu Dhabi; Fairmont Nile City, Cairo; Fairmont Heliopolis and Towers, Cairo; and Makkah Clock Royal Tower, a Fairmont Hotel in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. The promotional hotel credits…
InterContinental Hotels Group PLC, a UK-based owner, manager and franchiser of hotels and resorts, has opened a new Hotel Indigo in Edinburgh, Scotland. The new 60-room hotel is located in an 18th century building on York Place in Edinburgh, and combines five residential properties. The building has distinctive features, including decorative stairwells and cupolas. The hotel rooms have complimentary Wi-Fi and stocked refrigerators with complementary snacks and beverages, and the other hotel amenities include a business centre, a 24-hour fitness centre, housekeeping and laundry services, a concierge service, and a bar and restaurant named the Turquoise Thistle, which is claimed…
Pontins, a UK-based travel company, has enraged its customers by cancelling sold holidays that were due to be taken over the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee weekend. The company has cancelled the Jubilee weekend holidays that were booked in January, for rates commencing at £33.07 for seven nights. Citing a computer glitch, the company has subsequently re-listed the same holidays at 15 times the original cost, with rates commencing at £550 for six nights. In an interview with The Daily Mirror, a spokesman for Pontins, said, ‘We apologise that our computer booking system did not work in this case and the cancellation…
MATERNA, a Germany-based information technology company, has launched its new Automated Baggage Handling technology at the Passenger Terminal Expo, currently being held in Vienna, Austria. The new baggage drop-off technology is claimed to offer optimised bag drop procedures for both operators and passengers, which may be paid for through cashless transactions. Air passengers will now be able to print out baggage tags at home, and calculate and pay for excess baggage before they leave, by using the new technology. For airport operators, the new solution offers a fully automated bag drop system, which may be developed using the existing conveyor…
Flying on transatlantic routes will become a new experience, according to Inmarsat, a UK-based company that provides a global mobile satellite communications services, as it enters into a partnership with Honeywell Aerospace, a US-based company involved in avionics, engines, systems and service solutions. The partnership will be offering new and faster In-Flight Connectivity for passenger laptops, tablets and smart phone devices, providing a faster bandwidth for social media interactions, video conferencing, and multi-media presentations shown in-flight. Honeywell will be developing and distributing the onboard hardware for faster Internet connectivity, to be connected using Inmarsat’s Global Xpress network. Honeywell will generate…
Eurostar International, the UK-based high-speed rail service between the UK and mainland Europe, has reported an increase in sales from leisure travel for the three months ended march 31, 2012. Although there has been a growth of 4 percent in leisure travel, to 2.24 million passengers in the first three months of 2012, compared to 2.15 million in the first three months of last year, the company has reported stagnation in its business travel figures. Sales revenue for Eurostar has grown by 7 percent to £211 million in the 2012 first quarter, compared to £197 million in the same quarter…