17/11/2008 15:33
Striking Alitalia staff have hit back at the airline's management, saying hundreds of flight cancellations over the last week have been due to Alitalia's need to cut costs rather than their own industrial action.
Alitalia has been canceling scores of flights daily since last Sunday,...
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17/11/2008 15:13
A strike by pilots at Air France entered its fourth day on Monday, with the carrier expecting to operate no more than two-thirds of its long-haul services from Paris and about one in two medium-haul flights.
The pilots plan to return to work later today, with the carrier hoping long-haul...
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17/11/2008 15:10
EasyJet has won a High Court application for a judicial review of airport charges at Gatwick after refusing to pay an increase in prices this year.
Lawyers for the airline argued the Civil Aviation Authority, which sets the charges at Gatwick, Heathrow and Stansted, had disregarded a...
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17/11/2008 14:57
On Holiday Group chief executive Steve Endacott has forecast a tough recession ahead for the travel industry.
Speaking at the EyeforTravel Conference held at World Travel Market, he said: “The next two years, it’s not about how much money you make, it’s about how much cash you have got. It’s...
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17/11/2008 14:29
Triton Travel Group members will be able to access 40,000 additional hotels, apartments and villas following a deal signed with online travel wholesaler Chase International.
The additional rooms, which will be available via the TritonRooms portal, mean Triton now has more than 100,000...
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17/11/2008 12:08
Hoseasons remains confident that domestic holidays will prove popular next year after reporting a 15% increase in sales.
Chief executive Richard Carrick said the trend has proved particularly strong in the lodge, holiday park and boating sectors with bookings for some of the most popular...
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16/11/2008 21:49
Gross bookings at HotelClub have fallen 9% to US$94m for the September quarter. It’s a dramatic turnaround for the online accommodation company, which blamed the sales decline on Europe.
The result, contained in the latest Orbitz figures, will come as a shock to many because HotelClub has...
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16/11/2008 20:11
Fewer consumers worldwide are opening marketing e-mails, according to a November 2008 study by MailerMailer.
The company found that the average marketing e-mail open rate fell to 13.20% in the first half of 2008, compared with 16.11% in the first half of 2007. Click rates also fell, from...
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16/11/2008 20:02
Online travel bookings will total $98.2 billion in 2008, up just 9% over 2007, according to PhoCusWright.
The company said that some online travel providers would fare better than others, with rail sales growing by 28%, while hotel bookings would rise only 8%.
If the numbers prove...
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14/11/2008 19:05
USA (World Tourism News) - The newly formed Corporate Travel Department Association (CTDA) held its inaugural meeting during the eighth annual Corporate Travel Departments (CTD) conference in Carlsbad, CA , November 5-8.
With more than fifty corporate travel managers in attendance, the...
