Ryanair First EU Airline to Carry 8m Passengers in One Month
In July, Ryanair became the first European airline to carry over eight million passengers in one month. The July total was 8.1 million.
New Spanish TO Director for Dublin
The new Director of the Spanish Tourism Office in Dublin will be Gonzalo Ceballos. He is currrently Deputy Director-General of Tourism Development and Sustainability for Turespaña and will succeed José Manuel de Juan on 1st September 2011.
José will be leaving the office tomorrow for...
€3 Travel Tax to Remain Until Spring
The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Leo Varadkar TD, has confirmed that the Government has decided to retain the €3 Travel Tax pending a further review next spring. As part of the Jobs Initiative, it was announced that the €3 Travel Tax would be...
Michelle Wins ITTN Social Media Makeover
The lucky winner of a social media makeover to the value of €100 from The Marketing Shop Ireland in Irish Travel Trade News’ online competition is Michelle Barron of South West Travel in Killarney, Co Kerry. The answer to the quiz was, of course,...
Maureen O’Hara Enters Irish America Hall of Fame
President of Ireland Mary McAleese and Former US President Bill Clinton celebrated the entry of legendary movie star Maureen O’Hara into the ‘Irish America Hall of Fame’ last Friday with letters of good wishes.
Maureen O’Hara was formally inducted into the Irish America Hall of...
Air India Membership of Star Alliance on Hold
The member airlines of the Star Alliance network and Air India have jointly concluded that the integration of Air India into the global airline alliance will be suspended. This is due to the fact that Air India has not met the minimum joining conditions...
Delta to Refund Taxes Paid for Travel During FAA Shutdown
Delta Air Lines has announced that it will process tax refunds for customers travelling during the suspension of non-essential services of the Federal Aviation Administration.
Funding for the FAA expired on 23 July. At that time, Delta stopped collecting several taxes imposed on ticket sales,...
Air Passenger Traffic Hits a Speed Bump in June
The International Air Transport Association has announced traffic results for June that showed a slight softening in demand for both air travel and freight markets. Compared to June 2010, passenger demand was up 4.4% while freight demand was 3% lower.
The trend for passenger travel...
€3 Travel Tax to Stay Until Spring?
Transport Minister Leo Varadkar will announce within two weeks whether the €3 travel tax will be abolished – but the Irish Times has reported that it will remain until at least spring 2012. “The airlines said the tax was the reason they were cutting...
Tourists Evacuated from Majorca Hotel
Holidaymakers were evacuated from the 3-star Tropical Park Hotel in El Arenal near Palma de Majorca on Friday night after a 15-year-old girl fell ill in a room near that in which a Russian tourist died two weeks ago.
The death was initially attributed to...
Delta Expands Service to Latin America
Delta Air Lines will begin new year-round weekly flights between its Minneapolis-St Paul hub and Liberia, Costa Rica, beginning in January 2012. The service will operate every Saturday using 160-seat Boeing 737-800 aircraft.
In addition, Delta will add an additional weekly frequency between Atlanta and...
easyJet Increases Belfast Flights to Amsterdam and Geneva
easyJet is to add extra flights to its Amsterdam and Geneva routes from Belfast International Airport. There will be six more flights each week to Amsterdam, bringing the total to 20, and two additional flights to Geneva will increase the weekly total to 14.
The...
French BEA Outlines Cockpit Confusion
France’s air accident investigation agency, the Bureau d’Enquetes et d’Analyses, has concluded that the three pilots, including a senior training captain, of flight AF447, which crashed into the Atlantic in 2009, failed to comprehend that they had stalled the aircraft and that it was...
Win a Las Vegas Week for Two with Flexibletrips!
A new Flexibletrips trade incentive starting 5th August will have a week for two in Las Vegas as the top prize! Meanwhile, Will Walsh of The Travel Broker was the lucky winner of the top prize of a trip to New York, including accommodation...
Tibet Airlines Plans Direct Routes to Europe
Chinese-owned Tibet Airlines, which operated its maiden flight from Lhasa Gonggar Airport to Ngari Ali Khuna Airport on Tuesday, plans to serve key cities in China next year, to begin services to south-east and south Asia in 2013, and to operate...
€6m Boost for Tourism Projects
Almost €6 million worth of funding for four tourism projects in Ireland has been announced. The funding, from Fáilte Ireland's Tourism Capital Investment Programme, has been allocated to:
• Book of Kells, Trinity College Dublin – €2.7 million
• Garnish Island, Co Cork – €2.4 million
• ...
Panorama: Stay Second Week and Save Money!
Panorama Holidays claims that staying two weeks instead of one could save money. “Clearly, people are looking to cut back on everything in these times, and that includes travel,” said Sharon Harney of Panorama Holidays. “However, there is no need to skimp on the...
Antoinette Young Joins Killester Group
Antoinette Young, previously of Home and Abroad Travel, has joined Killester Travel as Manager of the group’s latest addition, Leopardstown Sports Travel.
The new walk-in shop and office is based in the Golf Centre in Foxrock, South County Dublin, and offers a range of pre-planned...
August Bank Holiday at Dublin Airport
More than 280,000 passengers are expected to travel through Dublin Airport over the August Bank Holiday Weekend, a 2% increase over the same period last year, according to the Dublin Airport Authority.
In what is one of the busiest weekends of the year for the...
Star Alliance Navigator App for iPhone
Clients travelling on the Star Alliance network can now have access to all alliance related travel information through their iPhone. The new Navigator app delivers up to the minute information about flights and enables passengers to make informed travel choices – and is currently...
