Ryanair Launches Another High Court Action
Ryanair has launched a High Court case against Budget Travel, for alleged breach of the airline’s website terms of use and intellectual property rights. It claims that Budget Travel has declined a request from the airline “to stop this unauthorised reselling of Ryanair flights”.
Etihad Appoints Dave Walsh as Country Manager Ireland
Dave Walsh has resigned as Country Manager Ireland for Travelport, following today’s announcement that he has been appointed Country Manager Ireland by Etihad Airways.
Simon Ferguson, Regional Director UK & Ireland, Travelport, told Irish Travel Trade News: “It is with regret that I have to...
Overseas Trips Down 4.2% in 2011
Irish residents made 6.3 million overseas trips in 2011, a decrease of 4.2% over 2010, according to the latest figures from the Central Statistics Office. A total of 6.5 million trips were made to Ireland, up from 6.0 million in 2010.
The total number of...
Sunway Celebrates 45 Years in Business
To celebrate Sunway’s 45 years in business, the Irish-owned tour operator is giving away one European holiday each day for the month of February. Every person who books online has a chance to win in the €20,000 promotion, which ends on 29th February.
Every 20th...
Grainne Caffrey Heads West for Lowcostbeds / Resorthoppa
Having already visited Munster, Leinster and Dublin City agencies on behalf of Lowcostbeds and Resorthoppa, this week Grainne Caffrey is heading for the west and north-west. “We’ve had a great start to the year and agents have been very supportive – it’s all about...
Brussels Here We Come, Euro 2012 Here We Go!
A new Aer Lingus summer service to Brussels and Wizz Air routes to Euro 2012’s four Polish venues, among other new routes, are set to score for Cork Airport this year.
Kevin Cullinane, Cork Airport’s Marketing Manager, Aviation Business Development, told Irish Travel Trade News:...
January Best Month Ever for BookaBed
BookaBed reported its best month in its eight-year history at the end of January. Lee Osborne, Business Development Manager, told Irish Travel Trade News: “Sales were more than 100% up on January 2011.”
This follows BookaBed’s best sales year in 2011, winning the Irish Travel...
All-Year-Round Golf in Costa Daurada
The Costa Daurada has seven golf courses and three pitch & putts with very diverse features, depending on the natural relief of their location, and which are ideal for golfers to enjoy their sport all year round.
Golf La Graiera in Calafell has a practice...
MSC Cruises Launches Irish Website with Online Check-in
MSC Cruises has launched a new Irish website, msccruises.ie, as an information service for clients and agents alike. You can view the fleet, destinations, weekly offers, and find shore excursions and – for the first time ever – Irish clients will be able to...
Prestige Holidays Roadshow in Belfast
Independent UK tour operator Prestige Holidays, based in Ringwood, Hampshire, will run four agents’ roadshows again from 16th – 19th April, including one in the Ten Square Hotel in Belfast. Trade partners attending will include the Canadian Tourism Commission and the Bermuda Department of...
Exploring Barcelona’s Treasures with Multitickets
Visitors to Barcelona should be advised that the city’s Multitickets are a convenient way to discover Barcelona’s cultural treasures while making the most of numerous special deals, including free travel on public transport and discounts off admission or free offers at museums, cultural venues,...
New Bedbank Website from JacTravel
UK-based wholesaler JacTravel has launched a newly designed hotel booking site for the travel trade, offering over 7,000 hotels in more than 550 cities worldwide. The site, jachotels.co.uk, has improved navigation and searches, easy booking amendments, the option to manage the mark-up to bookings and...
Virgin Atlantic Lodges Complaint on IAG/BMI Merger
Virgin Atlantic has lodged a formal complaint with the European Commission on IAG’s proposed takeover of BMI – and has announced a new London Heathrow – Vancouver summer service and an addition summer flight to San Francisco.
The airline claims that if the merger is...
May Launch Date for MSC Divina
MSC Divina’s christening will take place on 26th May 2012 in Marseilles, France, to become the third addition to MSC Cruises’ flagship Fantasia class and the 12th in the fleet. Sea trials will take place in mid-April 2012.
MSC Divina will have 1,751 cabins (100...
Malaysia Airlines Increases Inflight Entertainment
Malaysia Airlines has increased the content of its inflight movies, TV programmes and songs library on all Boeing 737-800, 777-200, 747-400 and new Airbus 330-300 aircraft in its fleet.
Starting 2012, the national carrier has substantially increased the inflight entertainment content by 100% for Hollywood...
United Rebrands Premium Cabins, Upgrades Services
United Airlines is upgrading its premium-cabin services to offer customers new food and beverage options, additional choices in inflight entertainment, and – on long-haul international flights – new amenity kits, pillows and blankets. United is also rebranding its international, long-haul premium-cabin services, introducing Global First and BusinessFirst.
From 3rd March...
‘Escape’ with Worldchoice Campaign
Worldchoice Ireland has launched a new ‘Escape’ marketing campaign featuring large window banners. The six themes are: Escape to make memories, Escape to the high seas, Escape to a place faraway, Escape to your Spanish dream, Escape for a unique experience, and Escape to...
Photography Tours with Insight Vacations
To help clients capture some of Europe’s most stunning cities and photogenic villages, Insight Vacations has released two exclusive tours guided by professional photographers: the 10-day Rome to London In Focus and the 12-day A Snapshot on Europe, both departing in August 2012.
On each...
Air Australia in Voluntary Administration
Earlier today, the directors of the Air Australia group appointed John Park and Mark Korda of KordaMentha as voluntary administrators and the aircraft have been grounded. Qantas has announced a number of measures to assist stranded passengers.
For Air Australia international passengers who have already...
