BUDGET airlines can actually cost more to travel with than the main stream companies – up to £87 more per family. That’s the shock delivered by comparison website Idealo.co.uk after its analysis, which set four low-cost airlines against six main stream firms. It has always been felt that the discomfort of flying budget more than [...]
HELLO Kitty will be flying through the air overJapan, quite literally. At the end of this month airline EVA Air will begin using two of its new character-themed Airbus 330-300s – Hello Kitty Jets. Hello Kitty is a fictional character produced by Japanese company Sanrio; she is portrayed as a female white Japanese bobtail cat [...]
Spain’s Committee of Disabled Persons Representatives, CERMI, has received numerous complaints regarding the treatment of disabled travellers by some low cost airlines. The Committee stated that the failure of these unnamed airlines in their duty of care for disabled passengers has prompted a call for an investigation by the European Commission, to discover whether they [...]
TENERIFE will be promoted from this weekend until the 13th May at the Mutua Madrilena Madrid Open tennis 2012. The island will be promoted in the exclusive shopping arcade, which will receive an anticipated footfall of 150,000 people during the tournament. The Spanish market is one of the main priorities ofTenerife, receiving 1.3 million visitors [...]
WITH only one month to go it’s estimated that over 6m Brits, that’s one in ten of the UK population will be taking advantage of the long Queen’s Jubilee bank holiday weekend, 2nd – 5th June 2012, by going on holiday. With the bank holidays falling on Monday and Tuesday, many office workers will be [...]
THE Iberia pilot’s strike action, threatened to continue until July, has been called off, following the government’s agreement to act as mediator between the pilots and carrier – forcing them into compulsory arbitration as a means to ending the conflict between them. The pilots’ union, Sepla, immediately agreed to the arbitration order. The dispute centres [...]
AUTHOR Joe Cawley, who lives in Tenerife, has hit the No1 spot in Amazon UK’s travel section with the Kindle version of his book, More Ketchup than Salsa: Confessions of a Tenerife Barman. It was first published in 2006, and was then re-released on Kindle by Joe when he was re-assigned all rights last year. [...]
TENERIFE Tourism has developed a promotional campaign in the capital of the Czech Republic. For a whole year, images of Tenerife will be portrayed on three tram lines in Prague. Tenerife Tourism Minister, Carlos Alonso, said, “the Czech Republicis a very interesting market, with actions like this we want to reach as many potential tourists [...]
This week Tenerifehas been playing host to scores of European tour operators and golf journalists participating in the Gastronomic Tenerife International Golf Challenge 2012, seeking to promote the island as a golf destination, organized by Turismo de Tenerife the successful event concludes on Saturday. Tenerife Minister for Tourism, Carlos Alonso, explained that “this time we [...]
Derry in Northern Ireland and Asturias in northern Spain become new destinations for Ryanair’s summer schedule this year from Tenerife South. Derry is the second-largest city in Northern Irelandand the fourth largest within Irelandas a whole. Ryanair will begin the Derryflights on 5th July 2012. City ofDerry airport is the main regional airport forCountyDonegal,CountyLondonderry and [...]
