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Thursday January 10 2013
Families are defying the economic gloom with a surge in sales of holidays since the new year.
Some tour operators and agents have seen their busiest period in four ...
Friday, January 11, 2013
Tourism chiefs have claimed optimism in the industry about business is at a five-year high in 2013, despite mixed results for last year.
Fáilte Ireland said there ...
Friday January 11 2013
BOEING’S 787 Dreamliner jet suffered a cracked cockpit window and an oil leak on separate flights in Japan today - the latest in a series of incidents to test confidence ...
Manchester Airports Group (MAG) has agreed to buy London's Stansted Airport from Heathrow Airport Holdings for £1.5 billion (€1.78 billion).
As part of the transaction, Australian ...
Jet lag can have it perks, and standing on the banks of the Charles River, watching the sunrise over the Boston cityscape as wintry night gave way to crisp early morning made the trans-Atlantic ...
Double up with the special promotion from Ireland on Pearl Business class. Buy one full fare ticket from Dublin to your favourite destination and a second Guest can travel with you for just the ...
Are your holidays meant to binge on the gorging cuisines all across the world? Do you live to eat? Are you completely mad about the rich and the finest delicacies on earth? Peep in at some of the ...
The world has no fewer places to perform romantic plays. A visit to these places when is the best recipe for romance. The ambience of these places better known as romantic destinations is ideal to ...
Flights from Shannon to Philadelphia are to resume next year after a four-year hiatus.
US Airways will launch a daily, non-stop service, which will operate during the peak summer period next ...
Thursday November 22 2012
It is one of the negative side-affects of long-haul travel, but suffering from jet lag could soon become a distant memory for weary travellers.
Australian sleep ...
Friday, November 23, 2012
Aer Lingus has given the strongest indication yet that it is considering operating transatlantic flights from Cork Airport.
The airline’s CEO, Christoph Mueller, ...
Friday, November 23, 2012
Aer Lingus has given the strongest indication yet that it is considering operating transatlantic flights from Cork Airport.
The airline’s CEO, Christoph Mueller, ...
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Thursday October 25 2012
Singapore Airlines announced yesterday that it will stop its non-stop flight between Singapore and Newark – which, at 9,500 miles, is currently the world’s longest ...
Wednesday October 24 2012
PASSENGERS who are delayed by more than three hours will get compensation from their airlines, the European Union’s highest court has ruled.
The ruling by the EU ...
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
THE CUBAN government is to lift despised travel restrictions which have prevented millions of Cubans from leaving the communist island for more than half a ...
Wednesday October 17 2012
GATWICK airport is studying options to build a second runway as a way to resolve Britain’s air capacity crisis.
A second runway cannot be built at London's second ...
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
The Government sees significant potential for further growth and job creation from the aircraft leasing industry.
Dublin’s reputation as a location hub for the ...
TWO DUTCH F-16 fighters were scrambled yesterday to intercept a passenger jet en route from Malaga in Spain to Schiphol airport because radio contact could not be established with the pilot as the ...
Bomb disposal experts had been called in to take the device away.
Earlier, the departure hall that serves most European destinations had been evacuated as a precautionary measure following the ...
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Ryanair’s €694m takeover bid for Aer Lingus faces an extended review by European Union regulators, five years after they blocked an earlier takeover because of ...
IT'S full steam, or sail, ahead for this weekend's Tall Ships Festival.
In all, 40 ships will be in dock by tomorrow evening, including two of the most highly anticipated vessels.
At around ...
Moscow continues to be the most expensive city for business travellers in terms of hotels, where rates were up 3 per cent in the first six months of the year according to business travel ...
Virgin Atlantic will go head-to-head with rival British Airways on routes between London and Manchester next year after unveiling plans to make its first foray into the British short-haul ...
Passengers on an Air France flight were asked to "chip in" to pay cash for a refuel after their plane was forced to land in the Syrian capital Damascus, the company confirmed yesterday.
The ...
AFRICA IS taking off. After decades of disastrous economic underperformance, the planet’s poorest continent is booming. The long hoped for “African renaissance” appears finally to be under ...
Friday, August 17, 2012
Gulf carrier Etihad Airways said it is interested in buying Ryanair’s near 30% stake in Aer Lingus but as yet has not entered into any talks with the ...
People of a certain age who complain dating is dead on the club scene have been thrown a life raft — although hopefully not literally.
From this evening, a mini-cruise specifically ...
A pensioner who claims he was advised by Ryanair to leave his ill wife behind while he took a pre-booked holiday flight has said he is still awaiting his refund.
Ryanair has denied it ...
MIDDLE East airline Etihad could end up being the single biggest shareholder in Aer Lingus if it successfully strikes a deal with Ryanair to buy the carrier's near 30pc stake in it.
But it ...
Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary has admitted that the low-cost airline was braced for a difficult winter as austerity measures and the eurozone crisis hit demand.
The Dublin-based carrier, which ...
RYANAIR HAS failed to get a High Court injunction preventing a travel agency selling the airline’s flights as part of holiday packages. The airline had sought the order pending the outcome of its ...
Waterford Regional Airport yesterday celebrated the imminent 30th anniversary of its first passenger flights by seeing off the airport’s first Aer Lingus Regional and Flybe services.
The routes ...
European aviation bosses have urged political leaders to stop an escalating global row over an EU carbon levy, warning it is threatening their industry and has already led to $12 billion worth of ...
THE eurozone is showing small signs of improvement, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said yesterday.
The OECD’s leading indicator, a measure that seeks to flag turning ...
Tourism organisations around the globe will be green with envy this week as many of the world’s best-known landmarks turn emerald to mark St Patrick’s Day and promote Ireland as a tourist ...
Hotel prices in Ireland are rising for the first time since 2008 — offering a welcome boost for the tourism industry.
However, an international hotel price index shows that Dublin remains the ...
Just as cruise lines were hoping to see bookings recover, after at least 25 people died when the ship Costa Concordia capsized off the island of Giglio in Italy, another serious incident has ...
Ryanair asked the High Court yesterday to dismiss a claim by the Swedish air transport regul-atory agency that the airline owes it more than €1.5m for unpaid security and authority charges.
The ...
Transport Minister Leo Varadkar said the Government will retain a golden share in Shannon Airport to ensure there is no risk or concern of closure at any stage.
Mr Varadkar was responding to ...
Lufthansa, Europe’s second-biggest airline, reported a full-year loss as the unprofitable UK-based BMI unit that the German company is in the process of selling weighed on earnings.
Lufthansa’s ...
A host of celebrities and cultural ambassadors will help attract tourists to Ireland next year as part of “The Gathering”, which it is hoped will attract 300,000 overseas visitors next ...
The number of booked passengers with Ryanair during February declined 2pc to 4.47 million, the airline confirmed yesterday. The load factor, or percentage of seats sold, was unchanged at 76pc. The ...
The Government’s 25% stake in Aer Lingus remains an investment prospect for Etihad Airways, according to the airline’s chief executive officer James Hogan.
“All I’ve said is that if they were ...
Passenger numbers increased at Aer Lingus by 8.8%, on a year-on-year basis, last month.
In total, 599,000 people travelled via the airline in February.
This figure included the company’s ...
A PLAN to train up to 3,000 long-term unemployed people for jobs in the hospitality sector is being put forward by the Irish Hotels Federation.
Incoming president of the federation Michael ...
Aircraft leasing: Japanese company Mitsubishi is to establish an aircraft leasing base in Dublin, already one of the biggest hubs in the world for this activity.
MUL Aviation Capital is a ...
Nepal yesterday pleaded for money and technical expertise from international donors so they can measure Mount Everest and end a longstanding row with China about the height of the world’s tallest ...
Transport Minister Leo Varadkar and the wider Cabinet will make a decision in the next five weeks on the future of Shannon Airport, while decisions on the futures of Cork and Dublin airports will ...
ONE of the most severe critics of Failte Ireland has been economist Felim O’Rourke, the co-author of a report on Dublin tourism for the Dublin City Business Association published late last ...
DUBLIN Port bosses are planning to build a €30m cruise ship terminal to help bring tourists into the heart of the city in a major boost for the capital.
The company wants to build a new ...
Irish airlines’ profits are likely to be hit by rising fuel costs if the situation in the Middle East worsens.
Bloxhams analyst Joe Gill has warned some derivatives traders are betting that oil ...
The collapse of the budget carrier Air Australia has stranded hundreds of the airline’s passengers overseas and left thousands more with little prospect of taking flights they have paid ...
WE may be living in hard times but a cruise company has great expectations that it will be able to sell out on a round-the-world cruise costing…..€1.2m per couple.
Strictly for the well-heeled, ...
THE future president of China, Xi Jinping, recalled seeing the Cliffs of Moher in a ‘Harry Potter’ film as he visited the world-famous beauty spot on a glorious day — and promised to send more ...
Images of Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping at the Cliffs of Moher are being broadcast into the living-rooms of millions of wealthy Chinese on their plasma TVs. Many of them will be planning ...
Qantas Airways played down a steering issue that forced an Airbus A380 to twice abandon departure before taking off from London’s Heathrow airport on Saturday, saying it was unrelated to wing ...
Global airlines yesterday called for a UN-brokered deal to prevent a row over aviation emissions between China and the EU spilling into a trade war.
The call by the head of the International ...
Virgin Atlantic Airways will spend £100 million on a three-year revamp of its premium cabin featuring “enhanced” seating, a “futuristic” in-flight bar and a customized fine-dining menu.
The ...
CHARGED if you do and charged if you don’t. Ryanair yesterday launched a new prepaid cash card and, not surprisingly, it comes with a litany of fees involved in its use.
The Ryanair Cash ...
WE can put away the winter gloves for the time being as the bright cold snap is set to be replaced with slightly wetter and milder weather over the weekend.
Although Eastern Europe is still in ...
HUNDREDS of airline passengers travelling to and from Ireland were left marooned yesterday after 70 flights were cancelled due to unprecedented snowfall across Europe.
London Heathrow, ...
Patricia Schultz, author of the bestselling title 1,000 Places to See Before You Die, talks about life on the road, her new book – and the three locations that are the cream of the globe-trotting ...
ANALYSIS: DEPENDING ON what you read and who you believe, Voltaire, Franklin D Roosevelt or Spiderman’s uncle Ben coined the phrase “with great power comes great responsibility”. No matter who ...
THOUSANDS OF Irish tourists who will take their car with them to France this summer will face fines unless they are carrying a breathalyser with them in their vehicle.
A new law is coming into ...
INCREDIBLE displays from the Northern Lights are attracting hundreds of people to the northernmost tip of the country.
The area around Malin Head has been so packed with stargazers over recent ...
THE YEAR of the Dragon is expected to coincide with an upsurge in Chinese visitor numbers to Ireland.
However, judging by the huge numbers who turned out to mark their new year yesterday, they ...
THE MINISTER FOR Transport is to engage with unions and potential investors before making a final decision on the future of Cork and Shannon airports.
Leo Varadkar had initially signalled that ...
RYANAIR has declined to comment on an incident on one of its planes where passengers claimed to have seen cockroaches.
The incident occurred on flight FR-7125 between Lanzarote and Dublin on ...
TRAVEL agents around the country are taking on extra staff to deal with the large volume of holiday queries.
Chief executive of the Irish Travel Agents Association (ITAA), Pat Dawson, said the ...
AFTER the prodigious snowfall of recent weeks, this ski season could be set to be the best yet.
Shortly after 7am on December 16, the pisteur charged with measuring the snowfall at the ...
Humankind’s success in conquering flight has not come without dreaded jet lag. Anyone who is able to be in one location the other side of the world and then pass through several times zones to the ...
THIERRY HENRY’s infamous handball did more than just cost Ireland a place in the last World Cup, according to the new edition of France’s best-selling travel guide.
The chief editor of Le ...
Mexico has opened the world’s tallest bridge, which is so tall that the Eiffel Tower could easily fit under its central span.
Built over a deep ravine in the Sierra Madre Occidental Mountains ...
BARGAIN hotel prices, the visits of Queen Elizabeth and Barack Obama, and the VAT reduction in the hospitality sector are breathing life into the tourism industry.
The number of tourists ...
British Airways owner IAG has announced a deal to buy German rival Lufthansa’s UK unit BMI for £172.5 million (€207 million) in cash, and said jobs would go as part of an urgently-needed ...
A FLIGHT attendant disgusted by a Ryanair ad featuring a scantily clad woman is leading a campaign to have the “sexist” portrayal banned.
The cabin crew member, identified only as Ghada, has ...
South Africa is an exotic and beautiful country admired with an amazing assortment of beaches, mountains, wildlife and 2500 km of extensive coastline. Renowned for its gold and diamonds, South ...
DEMANDS for refunds and compensation from airlines over flight cancellations and delays are expected to increase following the launch of a website to simplify the complaints process. ...
THE Irish football team may have drawn one of the toughest groups in Euro 2012 but the fans, at least, will be spared rip-off prices, which is good news for their spouses and bank managers. ...
Antarctica is the planet’s last great untouched wilderness. This incredible voyage will take you through the Drake Passage and down into the Southern Ocean, escorted by albatross and storm petrel ...
RYANAIR IS believed to have sent letters of complaint to financial regulators in Britain and Ireland about Aer Lingus’s decision last week to reject its request for a shareholder meeting to ...
BOEING yesterday won its single largest commercial aircraft order by value when Emirates, the fast-growing Gulf carrier, announced it would buy at least 50 twin-aisle passenger jets from the US ...
UP TO 150 jobs are to go as part of new cuts at the country’s three main airports at Dublin, Cork and Shannon.
The Irish Times has learned that a new voluntary redundancy programme was ...
The centre of Thailand's capital, Bangkok, looks like it will escape the flooding that has hit some suburbs and provinces to its north, but evacuation orders are still issued each day in outer ...
Champagne-spraying celebrities, from Paris Hilton to Bruce Willis, are to lose their favourite Riviera watering hole after authorities ordered the closure of a St Tropez beach club notorious for ...
AER LINGUS plans to outsource some of its operations in human resources but has given assurances that no jobs will be lost, unions have said.
The airline wants to outsource the operation of the ...
VALENTIA in Co Kerry was warmer than its Spanish namesake yesterday thanks to a mass of sub-tropical air that brought balmy conditions across much of the country.
The mercury rose to 17.3C on ...
Can you imagine floating in zero gravity, looking at a thousand-mile view of planet Earth below and infinite space all around? What has, until now, been a science fiction fantasy for civilians is ...
Ireland is highly acknowledged as one of the most famous tourist destination around the world, especially for the Americans. However, the travelers got a pleasant surprise when they searched ...
The newly built Shanghai-Beijing high-speed rail service is all set to make its debut. A grand ceremony held at the Beijing South Railway Station and Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station mark the ...
Popular movie characters continue to lure tourists in different places of United States. Here are some of the famous statues of movie characters, which lure tourists from all over the ...
None are unaware of the story of Titanic but what about viewing the ruins of this legendary ship in real life. Bluefish, a Los Angeles based luxury concierge firm, is offering this rare ...
Herman and Candelaria Zapp have traveled 145,000 miles in their car for 11 years and more surprisingly their four kids were born on the way. Living without a home and just travelling in a car for ...
Richard Branson has lately announced of his brave plan of exploring the deepest trenches of the oceans across the globe in a jet like single person submarine. Sir Richard along with his fellow ...
Chessington World
Explore Chessington - a whole world of wild adventures all in one place. In 2011, get lost beneath the waves in Azteca, a brand new Sealife display featuring sharks, rays and ...
Alton Towers Resort – Britain’s Greatest Escape in 2011!
Alton Towers Resort is the UK’s number one short break destination and Britain’s Greatest Escape! The resort offers a world-leading ...
Paultons Theme Park is a family theme park situated in the village of Ower, near Romsey in Hampshire, England. Paultons now has over 60 family rides and attractions and still keeps a number of ...
As the nations Thrill capital, THORPE PARK is the place to get your adrenaline pumping in 2011. Experience the UK’s most thrilling theme park as you're thrown, spun, swung and soaked on some of ...
Be the hero of your very own adventure! Fly through the treetops to escape fearsome dragons or join the Biking Fleet and ride churning rapids. Steer your own course at the Driving School and use ...
Visit everyone's favourite UK theme park, packed with a host of great rides and attractions and set in almost 300 acres of lakes and parkland!
Drayton Manor features some of the biggest, ...
Shrek the Musical brings the characters Princess Fiona, Donkey and Shrek magically to life in a spectacular and hilarious new production starring Amanda Holden and Nigel Lindsay.
This new stage ...
Cadbury World in Bournville, Birmingham's home to Cadbury's chocolate for over 150 years, is the place to visit if you love gorgeous, rich and creamy, stickylicious chocolate!
Discover all you ...
At the Lonesome Spur Guest Ranch, we love to share our beautiful sunrises and sunsets, whitetail and mule deer, an occasional elk, moose, or mountain sheep, and the fleeting red fox. Interested ? ...
Neon lights, fabulous theme hotels, high quality restaurants,glitzy world class shows, star studded concerts and some of the world's largest casinos offering round the clock entertainment. Las ...
Discover the pulsating energy of Rio, Stroll Paraty's colonial cobblestone streets, Explore the pristine Bay of Paraty by boat, Feel the wild roar of Iguazu Falls, Discover the colourful barrios ...
