Tag: cheap flights

  • No Frills Airlines Really Annoy Me

    I have written before about no frills airlines and their marketing tactics and especially the hidden costs of flights. Here is another example. I today booked some flights to Amsterdam with Flybe. According to their website the outbound flight was free and the return flight would cost £14.99 per person. I thought I had found…

  • Cheap Flights Are going for a Song!

    We have always sold cheap flights but in the last few years it has become increasingly difficult to advertise the fact that we really do have cheap flights. It’s not that we just sell cheap flights, but that we sell flights for every airline and flight company that you can think of and that’s something that…

  • Ryanair are Right but they Still Can’t do that !

    When your flight is cancelled you are entitled to a refund of the cost of your flight and EU regulation 261 states: 1. Passengers shall be offered free of charge:(a) meals and refreshments in a reasonable relation to the waiting time;(b) hotel accommodation in cases- where a stay of one or more nights becomes necessary, or- where a…

  • Passenger Stranded By Ryanair Writes A Book !

    Following the complaint made to Virgin Holidays by a customer who was not happy with the food served onboard comes news of  another complaint made to the no frills airline Ryanair. This time the customer has written a book about the severe delays he experienced at Malaga airport in Spain and about the poor way he…

  • Travel Agent Sends Holidaymaker to Wrong Country !

    An interesting article appeared in The Times recently which shows that you should choose your travel agent very carefully. A woman booked her flights to Costa Rica with the travel agent Thomas Cook in Bristol but ended up in the wrong country as the agent had booked her to Puerto Rico instead ! Every airport in…