Travel

After barely a week back at work, almost 250,000 Welsh holidaymakers will have already booked their next holidaymakers to the latest research from ATOL, the UK’s air holiday financial protection scheme. Saturday (6 January), dubbed ‘Sunshine Saturday’, is expected to see the biggest spike in holiday bookings, as UK holidaymakers [read more]

Norwegian has outlined its expansion plans for 2018 at London Gatwick (LGW/EGKK) including more US flights and its first South American flight. The low-cost airline will start a four-times-weekly service from Gatwick to Buenos Aires (EZE/SAEZ), Argentina will on 14th February using a Boeing 787 Dreamliner. New destinations in the USA [read more]

Heathrow, the UK’s busiest airport, has announced it is increasing the discount for a UK domestic passenger by 50%. The discount was introduced to make it cheaper for domestic passengers to use Londons Heathrow Airport (LHR/EGLL) and encourage domestic flights. It counters some of the harmful effects of the Governments [read more]

2017 has been one to celebrate for Manchester as it bags all four of the key best UK Airport awards including Travel Weekly, Travel Bulletin, Travel Trade Gazette and Selling Travel. The year started with the first award being collected in January at Travel Weekly’s Globe Awards in London for [read more]

Bristol Airport has been forced to close as a regional jet runs off runway in a landing incident. The BMI Regional Embraer RJ145 (Not pictured) had landed at the airport from Frankfurt but is understood to have run off the runway at the opposite end whilst taxiing. No injuries have [read more]

Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) is gearing up for what is expected to be the busiest Christmas period in 7 years for Wales’ national airport. Around 30,000 passengers are expected to fill the terminal over the next two weeks, a 10% increase on 2016. Amsterdam tops the destinations from Cardiff Airport this [read more]

TUI Airways UK has announced a raft of new routes for Summer 2018. This will be the first full summer for the airline operating under TUI UK titles and branding. The new routes from airports around the UK include Montenegro, Croatia, Italy, Turkey and the Greek Islands. UK Airport Destination Starts [read more]

Ryanair has weathered its first ever strike this morning as German Pilots carried out a 4-hour walkout. Having previously called off the strike when Ryanair agreed to meet with and recognise unions however it emerged that one of the representatives from VC Cockpit, the German union, was a former pilot who [read more]