Holiday News - Direct

Aer Arann and Aer Lingus have teamed up to launch a new timetable of flights to Cork from Glasgow along with increasing the number of flights to Dublin.
The new flights from Glasgow Airport will start on 28th February under the new name ‘Aer Lingus Regional’.
Amanda McMillan, managing director of Glasgow Airport, told the BBC: “Ireland […]

Travellers don’t often know their rights when travelling, for example if a flight a traveller is on is disrupted or cancelled, what do you do?
The following guidance gives travellers some information on; flight cancellations, cost of extra hotels, compensation and flight delays.

Flight cancellation
Full refunds will be given on flights which are cancelled within 7 […]

Duncan Bannatyne, the multi-millionaire star of Dragon’s Den is urging people to take more holidays in Britain with a new TV series The Great British Holiday Show, but an update to his Twitter profile revealed that he is spending his summer holiday in the South of France.
The Sun newspaper reports […]

The tourist boards of countries in the European Union (EU) who have ‘Blue Flag Awards’ will be highly promoting their beaches this summer to attract more holidaymakers.

Spain currently has the highest number of Blue Flag beaches, with 495. Followed by Greece (mainland) and the Greek islands have 425 Blue Flag beaches.
Blue Flag Awards […]

bmibaby are to increase UK flights from Glasgow and Edinburgh Airport to Leeds/Bradford Airport later this summer.
The new flights will have a re-vamped timetable, enabling business travellers and city break tourists more time to spend in the West Yorkshire city or vice versa in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Operating 2 flights daily from Scotland to […]

British Airways has announced a reduction in its services of short haul destinations from Gatwick for winter 2009. Flights to Alicante, Palma, Malta, Madrid, Barcelona and Krakow will discontinue, flying only to Bulgaria (Varna) from London Gatwick during the summer months.
Alternatively flights to Pisa, Malaga and Gibraltar will fly from London Heathrow in winter […]

Complimentary return flights on selected destinations are being offered to European and Mediterranean departure ports by Silversea Cruises, in order to enhance booking numbers.
The luxury cruise liner is offering economy flights and transfers for Britons booking cruises sailing from a selection of 28 European ports, including Rome, Athens and Copenhagen.
Trudy Redfern, Silversea Cruises Managing Director […]

Commencing December 5th 2009, British Airways will run the service from Gatwick to Innsbruck, just 5 flights on a weekly basis.
BA currently fly to Vienna and Salzburg, adding Innsbruck to the charter will surely enhance city breaks to the Innsbruck region, as many smaller cities are within easy reach.
The opening of the new route from […]

Etihad Airways are to add a third daily service between Heathrow Airport and their central hub at Abu Dhabi.
The new service will begin in October and will give passenger more choice of connections to the other destinations in Etihad’s network - Bangkok, Singapore and Sydney.
The airline hopes to get more slots from Heathrow Airport, with […]

The low cost airline Ryanair has announced its biggest expansion to date, including 12 new routes operating from UK airports to various holiday destinations across Europe. The new destinations include Beziers, Trapani and new departure points for flights to Madrid and Brussels.

The punctuality of flights at London’s Heathrow airport fell to an all time low beginning of this year, while Luton, Gatwick, Stansted and Birmingham airports improved in keeping flights on time.

Holidaymakers flying with British Airways from London still cannot be sure about where they their flight will be taking off from. BA has changed the move date to Terminal 5 – again.

Too much negative publicity has driven the German organiser of nudist flights to the Baltic Sea. Beginning of this year the announcement of nudist flights and package holidays caused a lot of media attention.

Low cost airline Jet2.com has announced two new routes to summer holiday destinations from Newcastle International airport.
The airline has added two Greek islands to its expanding destination list – Corfu and Rhodes. Flights will commence on June 4th to Rhodes and June 20th to Corfu.
“Both destinations have lacked direct, scheduled and, importantly, low cost services […]

Virgin Atlantic airlines has announced it will be adding a new daily service between London Heathrow and Washington Dulles International. From April 20, there will be a twice daily service between the two big cities by Virgin.