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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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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 we don’t do things by half’s...
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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 has happened – it was unacceptable and whilst...
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Filed under: travel, oakes, glasgow, holidaytaxis.com, school, taxis, pension, taxi, chris, future, airlines, holidays, tunisia, errata, airtours
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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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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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Another weird and wonderful idea on the web - is it genius or madness - would you wear already used dry cleaned clothes....... If you have ever arrived at your destination airport to find that your bags haven't made the journey and are lost somewhere then you will be especially interested to hear...
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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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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 £20 notes – the waiter looked at George...
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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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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...
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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 of speech and the right to vote – so whether...
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True story from the weekend news After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting from Harare to Bulawayo had escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus-stop and offered everyone...