Snow causes chaos at Heathrow
December 21, 2010 by Paphada Apimonton
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BANGKOK, 21 December 2010 – Travellers to London’s Heathrow Airport face delays and flight cancellations due to severe snow storms, the worst to hit the UK in 20 years.
According to the airport’s website, airlines are operating under severely reduced schedules until 0600 (local time) Wednesday 22 December at the earliest. It also suggests passengers residing in London should not travel to the airport until the airline confirms a firm departure time.
InterContinental awash with profit
LONDON, 10 November 2010 – InterContinental Hotels Group said on Tuesday that its net profits jumped by 54% in the third quarter.
The company, which owns the InterContinental, Crowne Plaza and Holiday Inn chains of hotels, said profit after tax increased to US$ 103 million (74 million euros) in the three months to September 30 from a year earlier.
Softer anti trust rules over Pacific
TOKYO, 7 October 2010 – Airlines from Japan and the United States on Thursday welcomed a proposal by US authorities to grant antitrust immunity allowing more alliance cooperation on flights between North America and Asia.
The US Department of Transportation on Wednesday proposed to grant the immunity to two alliances for services between the United States and Japan, subject to the the signing of an Open Skies agreement between the countries.
UK territory hit by travel advisory
August 31, 2010 by TTRweekly Staff
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LONDON, 30 August 2010 – Australia, New Zealand and the United States have all issued cautionary warnings to travellers visiting North Ireland which is part of the United Kingdom.
The warnings follow three bomb blasts, earlier this month, linked to political demonstrations.
New Zealand’s travel advisory wet as far as to suggest citizens avoid travelling to Northern Ireland fearing they could be caught up in protests and demonstrations that have turned violent.
New destinations for UK market
June 29, 2010 by Duangrudee Somboonruangsri
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BANGKOK 29 June, 2010 – Tourism Authority of Thailand will promote lesser known regions in Thailand such as the Northeast and the eastern seaboard in the UK market.
To balance the southern region’s popularity in European markets, TAT intends to experiment by promoting the Northeast region known as Isan and lesser known beach destinations on the eastern seaboard in a move to support government policy to spread the benefits of investment and tourism.
Surreal Holidays splashes out
BANGKOK 25 June, 2010 – Surreal Holidays, a UK tourism specialising in up-market travel to Thailand, hosted a lavish bash in Bangkok last evening to launch its first programmes.
Active for just five months, the company is owned and managed by a Thai-UK citizen, Runci Weeden, who led a team of executives and invited media from the UK for the two-day launch.
VisitBritain promotes new website
June 18, 2010 by Duangrudee Somboonruangsri
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BANGKOK 18 June, 2010 – After a year in the making, VisitBritain has finally unleashed a new website www.visitbritain.com for domestic and overseas tourists.
UK ditches Air Passenger Duty
The UK will ditch its unpopular Air Passenger Duty replacing it with a scheme that taxes airlines per aircraft as part of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition agreement announced 11 March.
The two political parties, that make up the first coalition government to rule in the UK since 1945, hammered out a a benchmark agreement on policy. One of points under tax measures stated that the parties had agreed to transfer the duty from the passenger to the aircraft.
UK raises its travel alert
April 28, 2010 by TTRweekly Staff
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In its latest travel advisory the UK warns against all but essential travel to the “whole of Thailand” due to the increasingly volatile and tense political situation.
The communiqué says “violent incidents of an unpredictable nature are occurring in many parts of Thailand.”
In previous warnings the British government highlighted the security risks visiting the capital Bangkok, but for the first time the warning now includes all destinations in the country.
Britons erupt over delays
April 27, 2010 by TTRweekly Staff
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Britons stranded in Bangkok since the Icelandic volcano erupted on Sunday, accusing international airlines of being devious, dishonest, and telling outright lies, to avoid their responsibilities to passengers.
The report was published yesterday, Monday 26 April, on the blog www.andrew Drummond.com.
According to the report some Britons slept for the eighth nights at Suvarnabhumi International airport with only a trickle finding seats back to London. The airlines were accused of:
