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The Blogger is back with a few over due rants!

Apologies as it has been some weeks since my last blog. Since the Travel Convention I have managed to squeeze in a family holiday at last to sunny Tenerife. Travel is amazing as I have still have some friends over there Roberto and Karina that I worked...

Published 4 Dec 2009 11:59 AM by Chrisoakes

Filed under: taxis, agents, airport, airports, baggage, holidays, Amsterdam, COOP, Tenerife, BMI Baby
Ryanair - diplomatic as always......

Taken from this weeks Sunday times another classic Ryanair act of diplomacy....... IT’S SCRATCHCARDS AT DAWN The chief executive of the no-frills airline Germanwings has sparked a furious row with Ryanair by predicting that the Irish giant would...

Published 2 Nov 2009 01:44 PM by Chrisoakes

Filed under: travel, taxis, agents, taxi, airport, airlines, airports, holidays, Ryanair
Planes, trains, taxis and automobiles - The Travel Convention 2009

The Travel Convention in Barcelona had a record number of attendees this year – however out of the 1000 delegates approximately 200 were agents – so is it of benefit and was it any good – or is it a bit of a jolly? From a business perspective...

Published 19 Oct 2009 01:52 PM by Chrisoakes

Filed under: travel, oakes, holidaytaxis.com, taxis, broccoli, ABTA, spain, airlines, airports, the travel convention
Discrimination - it's not big and it's not clever

Having just returned from the Travel Convention – more on that next week – I have just read of the furore over comments made by Anton Du Beke to his dance partner on Strictly Come Dancing. He has apologised and she has accepted, however it...

Published 10 Oct 2009 09:47 AM by Chrisoakes

Filed under: travel, oakes, glasgow, holidaytaxis.com, school, taxis, pension, taxi, chris, future, airlines, holidays, tunisia, errata, airtours
The Fantastic Faro Fam Trip - was it all worth it?

Ok so just back from the much anticipated Faro FAM Trip jointly hosted by Avro, Cosmos, Holidaytaxis.com and of course our country hosts the Portuguese National Tourist Board – so was it a success? From our point of view every agent was excellent...

Published 24 Sep 2009 09:03 AM by Chrisoakes

Filed under: holidaytaxis.com, cosmos, taxis, agents, Fam Trip, PNTO, Avro
What's in a name? (Win some High Street Vouchers!)

Hi It’s been a few weeks and I have been travelling far and wide up and down the UK and Ireland. This for a lot of us is conference season and over the next few months I am away to Faro with 45 luck agents courtesy of HTX, PNTO and Cosmos so watch...

Published 9 Sep 2009 03:48 AM by Chrisoakes

Filed under: travel, oakes, cosmos, taxis, Hays, agents, taxi, chris, airport, Fam Trip, Faro
Read this - another rip off!!

Ok – so we all here about rip off Britain. Latest culprit Manchester Airport!! I have just booked flights with an airline and had to pay £60 quid for bags – I know it’s a rip off, however you know they are going to charge you....

Published 8 Aug 2009 12:21 PM by Chrisoakes

Filed under: travel, taxis, agents, taxi, chris, manchester airport, rip off
Where did it all go wrong?

One of my favourite stories of the late but great legend George Best was when a waiter brings him room service – walks into his room bringing more bottles of champagne and there was George in bed with two stunning models and his bed was strewn with...

Published 31 Jul 2009 02:04 PM by Chrisoakes

Filed under: travel, cosmos, taxis, chris, OHG, Equinox, Fam Trip, RCCL, Faro
Do we still need or appreciate reps?

I have just returned from a week at the Holiday Village in Benalmadena. I booked my package through an agent – however opted not to take their transfer and used one of our private transfers. In these days of incremental income agents are getting...

Published 16 Jul 2009 07:21 AM by Chrisoakes

Filed under: travel, oakes, taxis, agents, taxi, Benalmadena, spain, First Choice, Thomas Cook, Corfu
Off on my jollies.....

Off on my holidays – and yes booked with a travel agent – after 21 years in travel I still have a huge loyalty and being a family man (not married but been dating 17 years) I have to go up an aisle one day – and that is of course and...

Published 2 Jul 2009 08:52 AM by Chrisoakes

Filed under: travel, oakes, holidaytaxis.com, taxis, ABTA, agents, taxi, airport, Benalmadena, spain, katona
Worried about your pension

Worried about your pensions - take a look at this ingenious idea to feather your nest!! F rom the Bristol Evening Post: Outside Bristol Zoo is the car park, with spaces for 150 cars and 8 coaches. It has been manned 6 days a week for 23 years by the same...

Published 15 Jun 2009 02:04 PM by Chrisoakes

Filed under: travel, oakes, taxis, agents, pension, bristol, taxi, chris, airport
TFI Friday .......

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Next week I am back in the homeland of Scotland at the fantastic setting for this year’s SPAA Summer Ball - the Cameron House Hotel on Loch Lomond so hope to see many of our...

Published 12 Jun 2009 10:04 AM by Chrisoakes

Filed under: travel, oakes, glasgow, holidaytaxis.com, taxis, scotland, agents, spaa, home workers
A week in politics is a lifetime....

So we have had local elections, Euro elections, ABTA elections and now soon to be ITT elections - a week in politics is a lifetime! However we shouldn’t forget at least we have a democratic right which our forefathers fought for to give us freedom...

Published 11 Jun 2009 01:38 PM by Chrisoakes

Filed under: travel, oakes, holidaytaxis.com, taxis, ITT, broccoli, ABTA, mcewan, daniele, Hays
The next generation

As it is Friday – on Facebook the regular round up – of TFI Friday, is it Barbie weather and looking forward to the first glass of wine etc – (but spare a thought for this people working over the weekend), I thought it would be good...

Published 5 Jun 2009 09:52 AM by Chrisoakes

Filed under: travel, oakes, holidaytaxis.com, school, taxis, friday

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