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■ Bmibaby to fill easyJet’s void at East Midlands
Rupert Murray & Rob Gill.
The over-50s specialist has spent
Bmibaby plans to boost capacity at East Midlands AN AGENT who sold 16 Shearings £7 million upgrading its UK hotels,
airport by 40% by basing more aircraft there, holidays to a 91-year-old for next and has divided the 49 resorts into
adding routes and increasing frequencies. It will year said the £5,000 sale was the two distinct brands: Bay resorts,
base three extra aircraft at East Midlands and result of loyalty created by opera- which are based in British seaside
launch eight routes: Alghero (Sardinia), Barcelona, tor and agency working together to towns, and Coast & Country
Bastia (Corsica), Cork, Dubrovnik, Malta, Newquay meet individual customers’ needs. hotels, located in areas of historic
and Venice. It will also increase frequencies on Tina Bull, manager of Thomas interest and natural beauty.
key winter and summer routes. The airline’s plans Cook in Colchester, revealed that So far, the operator has con-
at East Midlands come a week after easyJet said the customer, who uses a mobility verted 110 rooms into “premier
it was quitting the airport because it did not scooter, had never had a problem in six years of rooms” and the upgrades will continue.
believe the airport offered growth potential. booking Shearings holidays through the shop. Shearings is also to launch its first ocean
“He knows all the drivers and knows that cruising brochure in October, featuring itiner-
■ Abta to run complaints workshop he’s going to be looked after while on holiday,” aries on All Leisure Group’s Discovery ship.
Abta is to hold a workshop on how to deal with said Bull (pictured). Marketing manager Chris Barker said Shear-
complaints, at Birmingham airport on October 21. “And he knows all our staff very well and en- ings made 60% of its sales through the trade
The seminar will combine presentations by joys spending time with us arranging his trips.” and added that agents would always have access
speakers from organisations including Cosmos Bull’s sale came as Shearings released its to the same prices as on its website.
and Trading Standards with a workshop at which new UK & Ireland, Europe and river cruise “Everything is available for agents to sell and
attendees can discuss specific issues. programmes, including 30 new UK tours, 12 earn commission – even if it’s in a supermarket
Abta Travel Convention preview, p12 extra European itineraries and 34 river cruises – magazine,” he said. “Agents can also print offers
nine itineraries more than the previous range. from the web and put them in their window.”
■ Allbury adds Trailstream videos to websites
Allbury Travel Group is to use Trailstream video
content on its websites. The group, which runs
sites such as
libraholidays.co.uk,
jetlife.co.uk,
argoholidays.com,
pricerightholidays.com and JAMAICA ANTIGUA
goldenjoydive.com, will upload short films of
featured properties. Allbury product director
Steve Heapy said more footage would be added
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■ Delta to drop Manchester-New York service
Delta Air Lines is to scrap its Manchester-New
York JFK route on January 7. The US carrier said
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■ Aito to launch Special Occasions brochure
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■ Air France to cut 1,500 jobs
Air France has unveiled plans to cut 1,500 jobs Discover the easy slice
while avoiding compulsory redundancies. It said of paradise now...
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