Airlines may now be quoting taxes, fees and charges as part of the fare, but they’re still being less than frank about other extras.
Today’s Daily Telegraph has a full-page ad in which Flybe, in a huge headline figure, offers fares “from 19.99 one way”. The small print at the foot of the page says the […]

The Vatican is starting charter flights to the most important Catholic shrines around the world, according to Reuters. I wonder what the Anglican Bishop of London, who said last year that flying was “a symptom of sin”, will have to say about that?

More “green” opportunism from the tellingly named Gosh PR, a company charged with selling Brighton to tourists. In an email it says: “According to Lonely Planet’s recent Pulse Survey, travellers worldwide are boycotting flying with 70% opting to travel in a ‘low impact way’ by catching a bus or train. Forget Europe and help to […]

Over lunch, a director of a PR company representing travel firms told me she is discouraging them from using the word “green” in copy unless they are really doing something creditable.
About time. Every second email pinging into my in-box is from someone in the travel trade pretending to greenness. An endless number of firms is […]

The European Union is far from united when it comes to enforcing the rules on the carrying of liquids in cabin luggage.
Leaving Gatwick for Florence on Monday, I was struck by the number of posters about the rules and the number of bins displaying toiletries that had been confiscated. Having put all my toiletries in […]

Makers of baby milk must be doing very nicely out of the rules on carrying liquids in hand luggage. My daughter, flying to Spain yesterday with her 10-month-old son, turned up at the airport with half a dozen cartons of milk. Security staff asked her to open one and taste it to prove it wasn’t […]

Thanks to our move to Buckingham Palace Road, the royal correspondent can walk to meetings with her contacts, and I am spared using the Jubilee Line and hearing one of the most annoying announcements on British public transport: “There is a good service today from Canary Wharf and to all destinations on the Jubilee Line.”
Good? […]