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© Travel Weekly Group Ltd 2018 4830 4864 Group events manager Helen Bush 4887 4849 Cook buy underwhelms


Story: Thomas Cook boss buys £50,000 worth of shares How does this give confidence? If Peter Fankhauser’s salary last year was £1.8 million and he only spends £50k, it seems like a poor effort to show confidence.


ADRIAN DAY Travel Weekly welcomes a Thomas Cook response


Tui blame is misguided


Story: Tui Group survives ‘challenging year for operators’ I love the fact that blame for underperformance is laid at the door of events which happen every summer, including air traffic strikes, currency movement and the weather, rather than an outdated mainstream business model.


TIM WILLIAMSON Travel Weekly would welcome a reply from Tui


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I attended Tipto’s exclusive Tailor Made Travel/Regal Travel event recently and wanted to


thank the whole team for a fantastic evening. I learnt so much from the suppliers that attended, and I’m delighted to say that, just a few days after the event, I was able to make a Cruise & Maritime Voyages booking worth almost £3,000 armed with the product information they had provided.


KAREN HUDD Tailor Made Travel


TWEETS THIS WEEK


Thanks, HAL/Seabourn


I’d like say a big thank you to all at HAL/Seabourn for including me on the recent fam to Singapore. This fabulous trip was well escorted by the lovely Dani, and we couldn’t have asked for a better guide in Singapore than Suhail.


IAN WARREN GoCruise & Travel


Cathie O’Dea @CathieodeaTC (Travel Counsellors) Allelujah! All my Christmas Cards finished – and to anyone I’ve forgotten, I don’t love you any less. Merry Christmas and good health for 2019


Triangle Travel @TriangleTravel Santa stopped by our Mortimer store today raising money for @TVAirAmb


Nick Harding-McKay @HardingMckay (Travel Designers) Nothing like some Christmas cakes from Fortnums to get you in the spirit #HoHoHo


“It irritates me when you hear statements that take aviation as one. EasyJet is investing to reduce our


emissions. Not [all airlines are] the same.”


JOHAN LUNDGREN, chief executive, easyJet  Business, page 63


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Airlines should tackle non-full flights


Isn’t it time airlines were seen to help in the fight against climate change by consolidating some of their flights? I flew back on Saturday from Alicante to Liverpool and on our Blue Air flight


there were just 23 passengers. The head stewardess told me there had been 33 passengers on the outbound flight that morning. I also heard that easyJet had just eight passengers on its flight on the same route that morning. I was a travel agent for 28 years and recall that years ago consolidating flights in quiet periods was the norm. Last Saturday, Ryanair, easyJet and Blue Air all flew from Liverpool to Alicante between 07.00 and 08.30, and returned the same day between 11.05 and 12.30. Surely in this day and age of saving the planet, and for huge cost savings, these six flights by three airlines could be consolidated into one each way, with airlines flying in turn? In a week, 42 flights could be scaled down to 14. PAUL KELLETT, formerly Brian Kellett Travel, Bangor Travel Weekly welcomes a reply from any of the airlines


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