Popular gripes about Heathrow Airport
Heathrow airport is every traveller’s favourite whipping boy. Many gripe about the facilities, the overcrowding and the practically guaranteed take-off delays, but the major problem with Heathrow for all but the lucky few is getting there.
Poor connections
Forget the lost baggage and the debate over whether to get another runway – the [...]
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Flight price advertisements
I don’t know about you, but if I see a flight advertised for a certain price, I want to be able to book a flight for that price. And the sooner the travel industry gets to grips with this the better.
Flight availability
One of my major bugbears when trying to book a flight is [...]
Profiting on a Ryanair flight
A week or so ago, I wrote about how I’d made a profit out of Ryanair by buying a Mars bar. I paid in euros, got my change in pounds, and came out a couple of euros and a Mars bar up.
Mistake on part of staff or bosses?
This, I thought, was [...]
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Budget airlines and Visa Electron
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There’s probably not a human being on the planet that doesn’t despise the absurdly high fees that budget airlines charge to pay with credit and debit cards. The best way around this, as Karen Bryan explains, is to get a Visa Electron card.
Easyjet debit card loophole
But fellow travel writer John [...]
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(Or the world’s most satisfying Mars Bar)
Earlier today, I had one of those brilliant moments where I realised I’d stuck it to The Man: I made money out of Ryanair.
Ryanair loophole
A couple of months ago, I read a story about a customer finding a loophole in Ryanair’s in-flight service that allowed him to make money. [...]
Less coverage of green travel in travel media
You don’t hear quite so much about green travel these days, do you? For a good few years, it was the flavour of the month in the travel media. Far too much attention was devoted to travelling without flying, environmentally-friendly hotels, carbon off-setting and other ‘innovations’ that would [...]
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High speed rail network in Spain
I’ve recently got back from a short break to Spain, and I was amazed at the expansion of the country’s high-speed rail network. Those who know me will be aware that high speed rail has been a hobby horse of mine for quite some time.
I think the UK’s dilly-dallying over [...]
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Liverpool John Lennon Airport’s money-making scheme
Last Thursday, I flew to Madrid from Liverpool Airport. Yes, I know the official name is Liverpool John Lennon Airport, but I suspect the peace-loving Beatle wouldn’t really want to be associated with something that causes so much pain, anger and aggravation.
Whilst there, I encountered one of the most extraordinarily [...]
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Airlines and advertised flight prices
I have whinged before airlines and their somewhat secretive approach to flight prices. As a general rule, airlines will emblazon attractive prices all over adverts, but make it incredibly difficult to find flights at said prices. When booking online it can be like searching for a needle in a haystack, and [...]
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I was tremendously excited about going to Dubrovnik. From Byron’s description – “The Pearl of the Adriatic” – to my girlfriend’s rather more prosaic “it’s just lovely”, I had only heard good things.
As the last stop on my recent breakneck trip around the Balkans, I was expecting great things from the much lauded Croatian city. [...]
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