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Chris Gray
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In brief
BA to review list
■ Leeds/Bradford gains Tunisia flight with Cook
Thomas Cook is adding flights to Tunisia from
Leeds/Bradford airport from May until October
of agent partners
this year. The weekly charter will fly on Sundays,
with package deals priced from £349.
“We particularly want to engage with agents
Martin Ferguson in St Kitts and Nevis.
BRITISH Airways is to reduce the number of trade that reach into markets and areas where BA ■ Yoga in the sky? Qatar shows you how
partners it works with as it looks to maximise is not present and where holidays cannot be Qatar Airways has unveiled a guide to onboard
bookings through agents and its own website. packaged on our website. yoga. The Fly Healthy, Fly Fit leaflet offers tips
Richard Tams, BA’s new head of sales for the “There is no point in working with intermedi- on how to stay relaxed during long-haul flights.
UK and Ireland, said he would continue the work aries who can’t provide more services and The guide is printed in English and Arabic.
started by predecessor Adam Daniels whose products than we offer ourselves.”
job was to “mend fences” with agents following Tams said the airline would take a similar ■ Wizz Air starts Luton link to Ukraine
the airline’s move to 0% commission (TTG approach with its travel management partners. Wizz Air has started flying between Luton airport
October 3, 2008). “We are not a TMC and would never claim to and Lviv in Ukraine, its second route from the UK.
Tams believes sales through the trade will help have expertise in that area. So we will continue It operates the service four times a week.
the airline make a “small profit” at the end of to work closely with our partners, especially the
this year’s trading. top 10 companies which account for 95% of our ■ Ryanair adds new Bristol/Edinburgh routes
He was talking to TTG in St Kitts and Nevis business.” Ryanair has added 12 routes from Bristol and
after BA made its inaugural flight to the The agent review comes as BA prepares to seven from Edinburgh. The Edinburgh flights will
Caribbean destination last week (TTG January 19). unveil its own “far-reaching” restructure of begin in March and include four flights a week to
“Our intention is to continue working closely operations, which chief financial officer Keith Rome. New Bristol routes include a daily service
with the trade, but with fewer partners,” he said. Williams announced earlier this month. to Alicante, from July 3, and three flights a week
to Barcelona Reus, Montpellier and Toulon.
BMI axes Jersey
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■ Air NZ promotes £699 round-the-world fare
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Air New Zealand is offering a round-the-world
Britainon
fare offer of £699 until February 8. The offer for
link to Heathrow
Pacific Economy seats is said to have sparked a
44% increase in visitors to Air New Zealand’s UK
website in its first week compared with the same
BMI is dropping its Heathrow-Jersey route from week in 2008.
March 28, saying there was little chance of it
making a profit. ■ Birmingham airport traffic grows 4.4%
The service started in March 2007 after BMI Birmingham airport carried 9.63 million
won a five-year contract from the government passengers last year, an increase of 4.4% on
of Jersey, which had been without a link to 2007. It beat the previous highest total, which
Heathrow since 2000. was 9.39 million in 2005. Scheduled routes
BMI said it had been unable to make the that experienced the highest growth included
service profitable despite introducing smaller Dundee, Grenoble, Inverness, Shannon, Arrecife
aircraft. Managing director Peter Spencer said and Prague.
there was “little prospect of profitability being BMI will no longer operate flights from Heathrow to Jersey
achieved in the foreseeable future”. ■ Faithfull joins Tam as UK general manager
Flybe, which serves Jersey from several hopefully end the expensive experiment of Brazilian carrier Tam Airlines has appointed
airports including Gatwick, said it had been subsidies on uneconomic routes,” he said Sue Faithfull as general manager for the UK and
approached by BMI to re-book passengers due to Meanwhile, CI Travel Group has launched a Ireland. Faithfull has been in the industry 23 years
travel after March 28. Saturday service to Jersey from Oxford airport. It and has worked for British Airways in the UK and
Chief commercial officer Mike Rutter said is the first regular passenger service to operate Latin America, as well as for Sabre and Varig.
he had warned in January last year that the BMI from the airport after it opened a new terminal.
service would be unsustainable. Flights will be run from July 11 to September
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