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Interest in Thomas Cook Airlines is for its slots


Story: Who will buy Thomas Cook’s airline? I can see IAG gunning the most for Thomas Cook Airlines’ slots out of Gatwick and probably Manchester. Lufthansa would be mainly focused on the slots at German airports. As for the slots in Scandinavia, that’s anybody’s guess. The UK competition authorities would not be impressed, but it’s all part of BA’s fightback strategy at Gatwick as they are still trying to regain their crown as the most popular airline at the airport after losing it to easyJet a few years ago. Should the Manchester slots


go to IAG, BA would find it a very popular move if it opened a base there. It could shake off some of the criticism it receives and its sometime nickname as ‘London Airways’. Frankly, the main reason


that airlines are interested in Thomas Cook is for its slots.


NOAH BOWIE Tui uses B737 cost to disguise profit drop


Story: Tui issues profit warning over Boeing 737 Max grounding In my view, Tui has had a very tough trading period (as has everyone). Yes, the grounding of these aircraft has a cost, but the numbers don’t make sense. That’s because they have been grabbed by Tui to disguise its trading [downturn] and are being used as an excuse and to tell the market to expect poor profits.


PAULIE Travel Weekly would welcome a response from Tui


TWEETS THIS WEEK


Andy Freeth @Andy_Freeth (If Only) Not a great start to the day. Just lost a shoe under the train and now need to sit for 4 hours and later walk through Glasgow with one shoe!


Joseph Burchardt @joeburch271 (Liverpool Cruise Club) Woo hoo! Just received my invitation to the Shine Surprises Party.


rachel o’reilly @rorpr (Kuoni) A year ago I’d never heard of Ajman, now we’re hosting first UK press trip to this fab destination.


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“Families with members on opposite sides of the Brexit divide might find they are brought back


together by taking a holiday away.”


GILES HAWKE, chief executive, Cosmos/Avalon Waterways › Comment, page 28


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Recruitment agencies can be ageist


Story: Lack of quality candidates creating ‘recruitment issues’ for travel firms This article doesn’t surprise me. Many ex-colleagues I know have left the industry as they found it impossible to get any service of note from some of the specialist travel recruitment agencies. I too have found this to be the case. As someone offering 35 years of industry


experience in sales, operations, business and product development, marketing and commercial contracting, and holding posts from consultant through to MD, within retail, cruise, luxury, corporate and tour operating, I think maybe I have some skills to offer. But I find as soon as the agencies establish age, and in my case location (although relocating has always been a consideration), you either have no reply, or a very brief ‘thank you but no thank you’. I have never felt such a lack of service by a majority, but not all, of travel recruitment specialists. It feels like they pigeonhole you, with no foresight of what you could achieve. And to make matters worse, they mostly don’t feed this back. GARY HUDSON


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