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Pilot Hailed Hero After Landing Plane On Just One Wheel
After crash-landing a packed passenger jet at New York’s JFK airport and saving everyone onboard, a pilot has been hailed a hero. Four crew members and 60 passengers escaped unscathed when the plane touched down into a shower of sparks after its right landing gear became stuck. The Delta Airlines
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Travel Giant Thomas Cook Set To Merge With Co-op
In a move creating the UK’s largest travel agent, holiday giant Thomas Cook and the Co-op announced plans today to merge their high street travel and foreign exchange businesses. Under the agreement Thomas Cook’s Going Places shops will be rebranded Co-Operative Travel, presenting the newly form
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Tourists More Worried About Weather Than Terror Attacks
As cities across Europe are put on an increased terrorist alert, it appears that the Americans are taking it all in their stride. The State Department advice has warned the hundreds of thousands of US citizens’ currently in Europe to be extra alert, avoid crowded tourist areas and generally be mor
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School Offers Holiday Prize To Reduce Truancy
A school in North Wales is offering the incentive of a family holiday to pupils in an attempt to stop them from skipping lessons. Rhyl High School has come up with the idea in an effort to reduce truancy by offering a holiday for 6 people to the Isle of White as a prize, and […]
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Russians Beat Ryanair To Standing Room Only On Tourist Flight
Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary recently announced that he would like to offer standing room only on short haul flights; well it appears that the Russians might have beaten him to it. A Tatarstan Airlines flight taking tourists from Antalya Airport in Turkey to Yekaterinburg, Russia’s fo
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Travel Companies Collapse Costs CAA £45 Million
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has announced that the cost to them of three major travel companies failing over this summer will be in the region of £45 million. This is the amount they have estimated that they will need to take from their Air Travel Trust Fund in order to cover the costs incur
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25,000 Tourists A Year Are Killed On Foreign Roads
The Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) has issued a warning to Brits planning on driving whilst on holidays abroad following a recent report from the Make Roads Safe campaign which claims 25,000 tourists are killed on the roads every year. Head of destinations and sustainability at ABTA, Ni
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Celebrate 100 Years Of Saucy Sea-Side Postcards
A series of world famous saucy sea-side postcards are re-launched this week to mark their 100th anniversary. The history of the postcards dates back to 1870 when James Bamforth, a portrait photographer opened a business in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire called Bamforth and Co, specialising in lantern sli
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Mexico’s Drug War Targets Holidaymakers
As Mexico’s drug war spreads to holiday and weekend resorts, tourists have become their newest targets. In the latest attack, a couple were ambushed by an armed gang in speedboats while riding jet-skis on a lake straddling the border with Texas. 30 year old David Hartley, an oil worker from Colora
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Hoteliers Fury As Thomas Cook Stall On Payments
The Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) have been angered by a move by leading UK tour operator Thomas Cook to reduce payments by 5% for August and September arrivals. It was believed that the Caribbean hotels were unaffected when hoteliers in Spain, Malta and Greece spoke out earlier in
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