Travel

The German city of Frankfurt sits on the Main river and apart from being a major financial hub, it is one of the most exciting cities I’ve visited in a long time. Booking a few days away in any German city is never a bad thing but having never been [read more]

TUI has announced what it describes as its “most ambitious summer programme ever” for Summer 2019 including extra capacity and new routes at Manchester Airport, Birmingham Airport and Cardiff Airport. The UK Holiday company has said it will basing additional aircraft giving an increase in capacity of 110,000 at Manchester, [read more]

European Airlines are warning passengers that they face severe disruption as French air traffic controllers go on strike once again over pay and conditions. Ryanair has already cancelled hundreds of flights and other airlines are likely to follow suit as the strike, which started at 18:00hrs today takes hold. In [read more]

Those in Wales are finally shaking off the Beast from the East and gearing up for getaways to sunnier climates, with March seeing a year on year increase in Google searches for cheap Easter holidays. However, the rush to fly off means that a new trend is emerging with 730,000 [read more]

Irish budget carrier Ryanair has agreed a deal to buy 75% of Niki Lauda’s new budget airline, Laudamotion. Ryanair will initially take a 24.9% stake in the airline then, Subject to European Union (EU) approval, increase that stake to 75% at a total cost of less than €50 million. In addition to [read more]

Just two weeks after the “Beast from the East” brought the UK to a standstill, another wave of cold weather and snow dubbed the “mini-beast from the east” is causing disruption to flights. Around 70 flights have been cancelled at Heathrow Airport as a result of the weather, mainly to [read more]

Dubai based airline Emirates (EK/UAE) has lost the right to appeal to appeal a decision that they are liable for compensation to passengers for missed connections outside of the EU. Under EU regulations, any passenger whose flight was delayed for three hours or more is liable to compensation but Emirates claimed [read more]

Hainan Airlines (HU/CHH) is planning to start an Edinburgh (EDI/EGPH) to Beijing  (PEK/ZBAA) service from in 2018. The flight will operate up to 4 times per week with two inbound flights Beijing to Edinburgh going via Dubin (DUB/EIDW), and another two routing from Beijing to Dublin via Edinburgh. It will [read more]