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Morning all Been away for a while but seeing the story of the whole street that booked it, packed it and f.. well flew away on it (far better strap line than the Redknapps), I thought I would have a little dabble back into the world of blogging. In case you have missed the coverage viral or otherwise...
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Chrisoakes
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8 Sep 2011
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Filed under: travel, oakes, holidaytaxis.com, school, ABTA, mcewan, Hays, agents, airlines, airports, holidays, COOP, business, overseas, reps, flights, high street
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Last week I went to see the team at Jet2.com and Jet2holidays. We had a great catch up and I saw the operations team in action working the ongoing volcanic ash bookings as well as their day jobs! On return to my car – I put in my ticket – knowing the high cost of airport parking – which...
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Like all businesses today’s global challenges require the North Pole to continue to look for better, more competitive steps. Effective immediately, the following economy measures are to take place in the “Twelve Days of Christmas” subsidiary: 1. The partridge will be retained, but the...
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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 go out of business. “The Ryanair model is coming...
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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 this space for the photos! In October Barcelona...
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Oakesy's little acorns.....
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Chrisoakes
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9 Sep 2009
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Filed under: travel, oakes, cosmos, taxis, Hays, agents, taxi, chris, airport, Fam Trip, Faro
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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. Yesterday morning going through security at Manchester...
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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 savvier and by offering services such as these greatly...
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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 aircraft! I have booked private transfers with my...
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Oakesy's little acorns.....
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Chrisoakes
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2 Jul 2009
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Filed under: travel, oakes, holidaytaxis.com, taxis, ABTA, agents, taxi, airport, Benalmadena, spain, katona
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I have just came back from a couple of days back up in Scotland and visiting some of our agents up there and visiting towns that in fairness I hadn’t been to before – so it was quite an experience. At Holidaytaxis.com we have fantastic support from the trade and it was great to touch base...
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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 charming and very polite car park attendant with...
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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 Scottish colleagues on my travels or at the event...