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Seems to be true as the whole AGA base is closing
https://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/n...r-base-in-4q19
https://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/n...r-base-in-4q19
Hays Travel to buy most of Thomas Cook's shops and re-employ over 2000 staff.
Be nice if the airline could be saved too.
Be nice if the airline could be saved too.
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What kind of offering does Hay's travel agent offer? Will they be using the Thomas Cook name or rebranding the stores as their own? For instance where I live in Northwich we have a Haye's Travel Agent & a branch of Thomas Cook. Surely one shop will close. It's probably similar in other towns to. Great news though.
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What kind of offering does Hay's travel agent offer? Will they be using the Thomas Cook name or rebranding the stores as their own? For instance where I live in Northwich we have a Haye's Travel Agent & a branch of Thomas Cook. Surely one shop will close. It's probably similar in other towns to. Great news though.
Hays Travel is not like Thomas Cook, which owned hotels and an airline. Pippa Jacks, group editor of Travel Trade Gazette, told the BBC: "They don't have a [large] tour operating arm, they don't have an airline, they don't own hotels or cruise ships… so it makes them quite nimble in terms of what they sell".
Hays is said to have beaten off other bidders, which she said suggested that the package holiday industry was not dead.
"If you're spending a lot of money, if you're not particularly confident and you want some personal recommendations, actually going to see a real human who will sit and listen and take time to understand your personal requirements is very valued by a lot of holidaymakers," she said
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49985369
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A lot to be said for travel agents tbh.
I consider myself a very savvy flyer on account of the sheer volume that I have to do. When I want a nice holiday, I'm more than capable of sitting down with a laptop and trawling endless hours over this website and that but you can't beat just sitting in front of a human and saying this is what I want and when,
On business travel I still find I use travel agents to get me a better deal or some angle I hadn't considered even though I use the t'internet to check out possible routings / timings etc
I consider myself a very savvy flyer on account of the sheer volume that I have to do. When I want a nice holiday, I'm more than capable of sitting down with a laptop and trawling endless hours over this website and that but you can't beat just sitting in front of a human and saying this is what I want and when,
On business travel I still find I use travel agents to get me a better deal or some angle I hadn't considered even though I use the t'internet to check out possible routings / timings etc
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A lot to be said for travel agents tbh.
I consider myself a very savvy flyer on account of the sheer volume that I have to do. When I want a nice holiday, I'm more than capable of sitting down with a laptop and trawling endless hours over this website and that but you can't beat just sitting in front of a human and saying this is what I want and when,
On business travel I still find I use travel agents to get me a better deal or some angle I hadn't considered even though I use the t'internet to check out possible routings / timings etc
I consider myself a very savvy flyer on account of the sheer volume that I have to do. When I want a nice holiday, I'm more than capable of sitting down with a laptop and trawling endless hours over this website and that but you can't beat just sitting in front of a human and saying this is what I want and when,
On business travel I still find I use travel agents to get me a better deal or some angle I hadn't considered even though I use the t'internet to check out possible routings / timings etc
Even for the exact same itinerary, it can sometimes work out cheaper to book as a package with a travel agent than it is to do it yourself. It would be silly not to dismiss them without seeing what they can come up with.
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More Big News. This time TUI adding 2 million extra seats. I wonder where the extra aircraft are coming from considering the problems with the Max.
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http//travelweekly.co.uk/articles/346122/tui-hikes-ex-uk-capacity-by-two-million-seats
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http//travelweekly.co.uk/articles/346122/tui-hikes-ex-uk-capacity-by-two-million-seats
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A few MOUs signed but nothing with any airlines. @MCRIndia
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September passenger statistics
The closure of Thomas Cook has started to have an effect and unfortunately the magic 30 million passenger number may now not be reached until June 2020.
The closure of Thomas Cook has started to have an effect and unfortunately the magic 30 million passenger number may now not be reached until June 2020.
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Worrying
I'm hearing that the next stage of MAN T2 development may be put back some 6 months or so?
It maybe because of the Thomas Cook failure, but I hear that it could be to do with cash flow and the lack of the readdies?
Perhaps it's time to start diversyfying a little, say by trying to attract a Cargo carrier back again? Buy a scissor lift or two in anticipation of
a surge in Brexit related cargo ops? Just a suggestion, after all the essential snow ploughs are left lying around 95% of the time doing nowt, so why not a Hi-low ?
Turn the Premier Terminal into a Santas Grotto, at £100 a visit - you'd get a super present from Santa.
Turn a perfectly good Wide-body capabale Hangar / Spray facility into a storage facility for nothing to do with avaition related articles? (Curses, ---- Beaten to it)
Contorversial I know but hey-ho !
Now go on, give me both barrells, - I can take it
It maybe because of the Thomas Cook failure, but I hear that it could be to do with cash flow and the lack of the readdies?
Perhaps it's time to start diversyfying a little, say by trying to attract a Cargo carrier back again? Buy a scissor lift or two in anticipation of
a surge in Brexit related cargo ops? Just a suggestion, after all the essential snow ploughs are left lying around 95% of the time doing nowt, so why not a Hi-low ?
Turn the Premier Terminal into a Santas Grotto, at £100 a visit - you'd get a super present from Santa.
Turn a perfectly good Wide-body capabale Hangar / Spray facility into a storage facility for nothing to do with avaition related articles? (Curses, ---- Beaten to it)
Contorversial I know but hey-ho !
Now go on, give me both barrells, - I can take it
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I'm hearing that the next stage of MAN T2 development may be put back some 6 months or so?
It maybe because of the Thomas Cook failure, but I hear that it could be to do with cash flow and the lack of the readdies?
Perhaps it's time to start diversyfying a little, say by trying to attract a Cargo carrier back again? Buy a scissor lift or two in anticipation of
a surge in Brexit related cargo ops? Just a suggestion, after all the essential snow ploughs are left lying around 95% of the time doing nowt, so why not a Hi-low ?
Turn the Premier Terminal into a Santas Grotto, at £100 a visit - you'd get a super present from Santa.
Turn a perfectly good Wide-body capabale Hangar / Spray facility into a storage facility for nothing to do with avaition related articles? (Curses, ---- Beaten to it)
Contorversial I know but hey-ho !
Now go on, give me both barrells, - I can take it
It maybe because of the Thomas Cook failure, but I hear that it could be to do with cash flow and the lack of the readdies?
Perhaps it's time to start diversyfying a little, say by trying to attract a Cargo carrier back again? Buy a scissor lift or two in anticipation of
a surge in Brexit related cargo ops? Just a suggestion, after all the essential snow ploughs are left lying around 95% of the time doing nowt, so why not a Hi-low ?
Turn the Premier Terminal into a Santas Grotto, at £100 a visit - you'd get a super present from Santa.
Turn a perfectly good Wide-body capabale Hangar / Spray facility into a storage facility for nothing to do with avaition related articles? (Curses, ---- Beaten to it)
Contorversial I know but hey-ho !
Now go on, give me both barrells, - I can take it
Initially the whole of pier 2 was due to be constructed before pier 3, but I heard recently that pier 3 would be constructed in full before the second phase of pier2.
I would be surprised at this turn of events given the funds were all allocated prior...unless I’m not aware of something...