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THIS WEEK IN... A STEP BACK IN TIME


2009


The outbreak of swine flu and rising death toll led to a Foreign Office ban on travel to Mexico. As a result, cruises and holidays were cancelled, and customers were given the chance to return home on specially arranged flights. Thomson and First Choice pulled all outbound flights to Cancun and Cozumel until May 8. The cream of the travel industry celebrated four new entrants into the Hall of Fame: Carnival UK chief executive David Dingle; The Co-operative Travel Group managing director Mike Greenacre; former Carlson Wagonlit Travel president EMEA and Latin America Richard Lovell; and Orient-Express Hotels founder and director James Sherwood. Andy Cooper, head of development at Abta, joined Thomas Cook as director of government and external affairs; Maria Whiteman, former managing director of Travel 2, became chief executive of Directline Holidays; and Hays Travel bought Freedom Direct Holidays to plug a gap in web and call centre dynamic packaging sales.


1994


We take a look through


the Travel Weekly archives in our 50th year to find out what was making the headlines 10, 25 and 45 years ago…


1974


The entire committee of Abta’s Northern Ireland retail region resigned in the wake of a row over the handling of Horizon Ireland’s liquidation. Outgoing chairman David Johnson said the committee had resigned so members could speak their minds more freely. Meanwhile, Court Line acquired Horizon Travel’s 18 retail offices. Laker Airways founder Freddie Laker’s description of Gatwick as a ‘dump’ stoked a sharp retort from airport director John Mulkern at a Civil Aviation Authority hearing. He said the airport was in the throes of a £37 million improvement scheme that should change it from “a good airport to a very good one”.


Thomas Cook’s first female branch manager


announced her retirement after 28 years with the business. Violet Parker, 60, became Cook’s first woman manager, of the Strand Palace Hotel office, in 1947 and had been a campaigner for equal pay.


At an extraordinary general meeting in Birmingham, Abta members voted in favour of giving the association the power to demand the immediate surrender of members’ accounts when it feared companies could be on the verge of collapse. Travel Agents Council chairman Steven Freudmann said the move could save Abta millions of pounds. The Civil Aviation Authority set new guidelines on airlines selling tickets to non-licensed consolidators. The CAA warned airlines to check if consolidators held an Atol or risk facing prosecution. Airtours pledged to expand in the ‘elitist’ cruise market in the UK with a new programme based around Southward, which it acquired for £16 million. Airtours said it aimed to make cruises more affordable. Co-op Travelcare de-racked more than 30 operators in a new approach to sales and the introduction of a centralised racking system to monitor product viability and the renegotiation of deals with each operator.


2 May 2019travelweekly.co.uk27


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