Reports are suggesting that a lot of very desperate travel agents are currently slashing their prices on England World Cup packages by up to 65 percent. Some tour operators have sold so few tickets they will take just a few hundred England fans to South Africa next month. Thomas Cook has cut the prices on [...]

Apparently Thrifty Car Rental in the United Arab Emirates has just recently announced that it will be teaming up with Emirates NBD to offer some special rates to the bank’s credit car holders. These rates will be offered to Emirates NBD customers in locations throughout the United Arab Emirates from now until April 2011. This [...]

One of the biggest rental car agents in all of Germany, Sixt, has just recently reported that this financial year has gotten off to a great start. The company, which is one of the leading mobility service providers in Europe as well, said that the first quarter of the year is usually the weakest. However, [...]

Apparently British Airways is not letting the latest cabin crew strike get them down. In fact, the airline has just recently started painting a new slogan across the fuselages of a number of its planes. This new slogan states to “keep the flag flying.” This message was already placed on ten Boeing 777′s at Heathrow [...]

Apparently the easyJet founder, Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, has just recently offered to drop his long running dispute with the budget airline over the use of the “easy” brand if it agrees to pay him at least £3 million a year in royalties. The tycoon, who with his family still controls 38 percent of the airline, [...]

According to recent reports, travelers in the UK could soon be facing a new ash tax. These reports went on to say that may UK travelers are already upset with the news that the British insurer Aviva will be adding a £10 tax to the cost of their travel insurance starting July 1st. This new [...]

Apparently British Airways’ efforts to hold of the strike by way of an injunction has failed. Despite winning the injunction the first go around, the Unite union has just recently won an appeal on the matter. The ruling comes just after British Airways won an injunction on the grounds that the Unite union had not [...]

It now seems that one of the most recognized travel service providers on the internet today, Priceline.com, was able to acquire Manchester-based TravelJigsaw. This is a multinational car hire reservation service. Although the exact terms and conditions of the deal were not yet disclosed, Priceline.com confirmed that it did intend to retain TravelJigsaw’s current management [...]

It seems like the new “in” thing to do in the UK is take a cruise holiday. This news comes just as British holidaymakers spark a huge increase in cruise holiday bookings. So far, over 1.65 million British travelers are set to take a cruise at some point during 2010. This is a seven percent [...]

Reports show that the UK government has made a last minute intervention in the long running British Airways dispute with its cabin crew. The government asked for British Airways’ chief executive and union leaders to attend an emergency meeting yesterday. Phil Hammond, the new Transport Secretary, called the meeting ahead of the first scheduled strike. [...]