FRONTLINE 1974
July 4 O Fears were raised that many of
Abta’s trading rules, including a ban on discounting, commission-splitting and Stabiliser (the system by which Abta tour operators could sell only through Abta retailers) could be declared illegal from next
year under new legislation. O A major rationalisation of Court Line’s airline and leisure interests, which included Clarksons, Horizon, 4S and OSL, was expected in the wake of the government’s decision to buy the group’s
shipbuilding interests for £16 million. O Agents were reported to be selling three times as many long-haul holidays as four years ago, but Benidorm was named the most popular destination for both summer and winter by the British Market Research
Bureau’s Holiday Booking Index. O Thomas Cook’s UK managing director John Shepherd was set to relinquish his post on August 1 to take up a corporate relations role at Cook International.
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1994
July 6 O Abta announced it would throw out
insolvent agents and introduce heavy fines for late submission of year-end accounts under tough new financial rules to weed out weak members. Meanwhile, Abta’s head of legal services, Alan Bowen, claimed up to 25,600
travel companies were trading illegally. O American Airlines announced it was axing 30 jobs in Scotland after deciding to operate its Glasgow-Chicago service seasonally, while Olympic Holidays revealed the closure of its Islington operation next spring when the business was due to be transferred to parent
Owners Abroad’s Crawley HQ. O Osprey Holidays took over the ski programme of American Independence, which ceased trading with debts of
£150,000. O Derek Moore, operations manager at Explore Worldwide, was profiled this week under the headline ‘Geography teacher who remapped his career’.
July 10 O A two-year campaign to ensure Ryanair
complied with Office of Fair Trading pricing rules ended with the carrier making “minor adjustments” to its website. The OFT said Ryanair had taken “voluntary steps to increase the clarity and transparency of its website and other advertising”. It followed the threat of OFT action in 2007 against airlines and travel firms that left
non-optional charges out of prices. O Market research body Key Note predicted a post-recession bounce-back for overseas
2009
holidays and a fall in domestic holiday bookings by 2010-11, while Kuoni became the latest operator to ask staff to take
unpaid leave to cut costs. O Thomas Cook staff in Ireland staged protests ahead of the proposed closure of the group’s last
three shops in Dublin, affecting 77 jobs. O Meanwhile, it was announced that Holiday Autos founder Clive Jacobs was buying TWGroup, including Travel Weekly, Travolution, Gazetteers and the Globe Travel Awards, from Reed Business Information.
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