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School rules Story: New guidance for head teachers over term-time holidays Would parents rather pay a £60 fine and save £500 on their holiday? Absolutely, it’s a no-brainer! l OzMonkey
Can parents expect similar rules for teachers concerning their ‘training days’, which have a crippling effect on our working lives? l MPGD
Stop it, Monarch Story: Monarch boss: ‘We’ll be debt-free within three years’ It is time for Monarch Group to consider following Thomas Cook’s lead and stop direct discounting. By no longer undercutting travel agents, it would get the trade back behind it and see sales increase. At present we sell away from Cosmos Holidays due its large online discounts. I would say Cosmos now needs the trade to help it recover to become the great operator it once was. Monarch needs to fill planes, so it should stop encouraging agents to switch-sell possible clients away to other agent-friendly operators. l Guest Travel Weekly would welcome a response from Monarch
Keep it up, Flybe Big Interview: Q&A with Flybe’s Saad Hammad
Good to see these changes at Flybe. I’m a regular domestic traveller based in the southwest, but the airline had priced itself out of the market and I was having to use easyJet from Bristol. A quick look at the new site and I can see massive changes in its prices, which will no doubt drive more traffic. Keep it up. l Jay UK
Tui in Greece Story: Tui Travel to trial extended summer season in Greece in 2015 Mr [Peter] Long [Tui chief executive] probably breezed through the VIP terminal at ATH. Had he shared his customers’ experience of Greek regional airports in high season, he might have told [Greece prime minister] Mr Samaras that there’s no way volumes can increase before Greek
airports improve. CHQ, HER and RHO airports are antiquated hellholes working beyond capacity. l EGj
Mr Long also needs to be aware that, for many, the attraction of the smaller islands is that they are not developed! l Stuart
Bill plan is harmful
Story: Trade to oppose ‘fundamental change’ to Iata payment rules
This airline proposal is shortsighted and harmful to every Iata agent. It has many negative implications and the potential to cost the airlines far more than they will save. It would result in a huge drop in late bookings as many tour operators will not be prepared to act as a bank by paying Billing Settlement Plan before they have received funds from travel agents. One solution would be to allow Iata agents to use
their own corporate credit card to pay BSP. This would allow the airlines to receive funds quicker and reduce failure risk while allowing the Iata agent to benefit from the credit terms from their card provider. A corporate card could be used to pay part of the BSP to address those last-minute bookings that generate negative cash flow. Providing the airlines do not railroad through a one-sided proposal I am sure a collaborative solution can be found. l Guy Novik, chief executive, USAirtours
Thanks, Anatolian
I would like to thank Anatolian Sky for an educational on one of its Turkish gulets, the Cankaya II. I really enjoyed my experience, which was totally different from
any other educational I have had in the past. Brilliant, Anatolian, this is why you are the best at what you do. Independents rule. l Jennie Walters, senior travel consultant, Chester Travel Connection, Chester
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