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Travel agent updates from Birmingham Airport’s Tom Screen
Zaandam n Hey everyone,
Happy New Year! Despite current economic gloom, there appear to be some really encouraging signs ahead of Summer 2023, with pollsters saying people still want to fly abroad for their holidays.
Sixth-based: Ryanair aircraft
This is great news as we have significant growth coming in Summer 2023: a 14th-based Jet2 aircraft, a sixth-based Ryanair aircraft and the largest-ever easyJet programme. New BHX routes include Santander, Billund, Toulouse, Stockholm, Milan, Lisbon, Pisa and Nice. Aegean Airlines are back on Athens. Air France are now at four times daily. Vueling are now five per week on Paris too. There’ll be more exciting route news soon. Watch this space.
Largest-ever programme: easyJet
HAL unveils Arctic Circle itinerary in Alaska 2024 range
Phil Davies
Holland America Line has unveiled its 2024 Alaska programme, featuring a new 28-day Arctic Circle itinerary on Westerdam. The cruise from Seattle departs
on June 9 in time for the summer solstice and includes 12 Alaskan ports. Prices start from £5,669. Two 14-day Great Alaskan
Some of you may be aware Jordan Sanders has sadly left us for pastures new, but if you continue to email
travel.trade@
birminghamairport.co.uk, we will respond to your queries as soon as we can.
Best of luck to all you agents out there over the peaks! Your support is massively appreciated as always. Here’s to 2023 – may the recovery continue!
Tom Screen,Aviation Director, Birmingham Airport @BHXtraveltradeteam @bhxtraveltradeteam @BHXtraveltrade
Explorer voyages from Vancouver cover eight ports in Alaska, with departures by Nieuw Amsterdam on May 5 and Noordam on
28Duration in days of Westerdam’s Arctic Circle sailing
September 15. The lead-in price for the cruises is £2,709. The programme also includes
117 week-long cruises, with Koningsdam, Zaandam and Eurodam also being deployed in the region between April and September 2024.
P&O Cruises launches one million Shine poi
P&O Cruises plans to give away one million additional Shine Reward Club points to agents in a bid to make this year’s peak sales period the “biggest wave yet”. Agents will receive an extra
50 Shine points for every Select Price booking made this month,
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in addition to regular points earned through the line’s rewards platform. Select Price fares give customers “the most choice and flexibility”, the line said. Agents will also be entered
into a weekly competition to win a P&O Cruises holiday every time
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