Posted on August 23, 2010 by Fiona Hilliard

Image by Garrettc via Flickr The days of last minute car hire bargains are well and truly over.  New research carried out by a leading Japanese economist has found that the cheapest time to book your airline ticket, hotel or car hire is EIGHT weeks before travelling. Makoto Watanabe’s ‘eight-week theory’ can be traced to his [...]

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Fiona Hilliard

Image via Wikipedia It has emerged today that Dr. Frank Ryan, plastic surgeon to the stars died tragically on Monday while tweeting and driving. In recent months Dr. Ryan grabbed headlines when he admitted to performing 10 surgical procedures in one day on MTV’s The Hills star Heidi Montag. California Highway Patrol (CHP) say Ryan [...]

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Fiona Hilliard

Image via Wikipedia While European car hire customers roll their eyes at Ryanair’s latest attempts to penny pinch, over the pond US passengers have their work cut out with American Airlines. The Texas-based airline yesterday announced that it will be charging between $19 (€15) and $39 (€31) for “Express Seats” the seating in the first few [...]

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Fiona Hilliard

Image by Caligold via Flickr Thousands of British travellers face the prospect of having to rearrange their summer vacations… sound familiar? No, you’re not having a ‘groundhog’ moment, yet another UK travel group has indeed gone bust. Airline industry officials were last night rallying to make sure that all 13,000 Flight Options/Kiss holidaymakers who found themselves abroad got [...]

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Fiona Hilliard

Image via Wikipedia And exhale. Do you hear that? It’s the sound of the UK travel industry breathing a huge sigh of relief. The scheduled strikes by Unite airport workers have been called off after talks with unions ended yesterday. Acas issued a statement late last night saying a settlement had been reached between BAA and [...]

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Fiona Hilliard

Image by toastmonster via Flickr The perma-tanned, plummy accented one spent the best part of three decades lighting up our living rooms with tales of lobster lunches and champagne cruises in far flung, sun-bleached islands like St Lucia and Antigua. In the days before extreme travel shows like Bear Grylls, holiday programming was less about [...]