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■ Earn £500 commission for ‘Titanic’ cruise
Miles Morgan Travel has decided to start selling
Industry quashes
its Titanic Memorial Cruise through agents for the
first time. Morgan is offering agents the chance
to earn £500 per booking on the cruise, which
commemorates the 100th anniversary of the
disaster in April 1912. He said agents could double
call for flying cap
their money by separating a group booking for
four into two, so earning a £1,000 payment.
Martin Ferguson.
lot of economic growth and
■ Cook’s 2010 World Cup packages go on sale TRAVEL trade leaders have we will be richer.
Thomas Cook Sport has started selling packages branded a call by a govern- “I might think to myself,
to next year’s Fifa World Cup in South Africa. ment climate committee to shall I do three long-haul
Deals start from £2,499 and include direct return curb long-haul leisure travel flights every year,” he said.
flights, transfers, accommodation in a three or as “not credible”. “But I don’t think there’s
four-star hotel plus match tickets. All flights Abta president John room for that. So will my
depart from London and Manchester on June 6. McEwan said any proposal kids travel a lot more than I
South Africa World Cup 2010 feature, p43 to restrict travel would not do, will their kids travel a lot
be acceptable. more than they do? That is
■ Emirates to open Birmingham VIP lounge “You could not impose a not sustainable.”
Emirates is to open a £1.3 million lounge for cap on people who have earned the right to The Climate Change Committee told the
premium passengers at Birmingham airport this travel. Some people work their whole lives saving government the EU had not gone far enough in
winter. The 7,000sq ft facility will be situated to be able to fly and see the world,” he said. holding airlines accountable for emissions. It
near the airline’s departure gate in Terminal 1. Paul Charles, Virgin Atlantic’s communications wants them to pay to offset all of their emissions
It will be available to Emirates’ first and director, added: “No government is going to tell and not just the 15% proposed by the EU.
business-class passengers, as well as Gold mem- passengers they can’t visit friends and family.” McEwan added that “it would neither be fair
bers of its Skywards frequent-flyer programme. They were responding to a report by David nor equitable” to make such demands.
Emirates operates a twice-daily service from Kennedy, chief executive of the Climate Change “This is about where airlines fit in overall in
Birmingham to Dubai. Committee, who said demand would have to be terms of emissions. They still only account for a
contained in the future as projected levels of small percentage compared to other industries.”
■ Abta fills two senior positions growth were not sustainable. Abta chief executive Mark Tanzer said he was
Abta has made two senior appointments: head of Kennedy claimed more than half of UK not convinced by the figures cited by the committee
public affairs and head of destination strategy aviation’s emission were generated by Brits when it claimed aviation’s projected growth meant
and services. Former public affairs company holidaying in far-flung destinations. other parts of the economy would have to cut
account director Luke Pollard will take up the “Over the next three decades there will be a emissions by 90% to meet 2050 national targets.
role of head of public affairs to focus on
strengthening the association’s lobbying activity.
Nikki White fills the other post, leaving her role
as head of strategy and development at travel
marketing experts Fox Kalomaski. The appoint-
ments follow an Abta restructure following the
departure of Andy Cooper this summer.
Abta masterclass previews, p12
■ Flight punctuality improves as services fall
The punctuality of UK flights improved in the
second quarter of the year, according to the CAA.
Scheduled flights at London City and Heathrow
airports showed the best improvement on last
year. The total number of flights handled at the
10 monitored UK airports fell by 9% to the lowest
level since 2003. Overall punctuality – flights
arriving within 15 minutes of schedule – improved
by 11 percentage points, from 71% to 82%.
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Harlequins rugby player Nick Evans. He and team-mates Will Skinner (left) and Danny
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