Mid haul

Jules Verne to up trade focus with two new senior leadership roles

Escorted touring specialist Jules Verne has signalled a further focus on trade sales with a reshuffle of two key roles

New Jet2 routes take off from Birmingham and Edinburgh airports

The airline and operator will serve Montenegro from BHX for the first time this summer, while Edinburgh has gained its first Jet2 service to Malta

Intrepid chief: ‘We're spending a lot on driving customers to travel agents’

Intrepid Travel chief executive James Thornton tells TTG about its trade ties and tough calls on carbon reduction, and why he remains positive about the buoyancy of the adventure sector

Jet2 bullish about summer 24 despite 'competitive' April and May pricing

Jet2 Group says it is happy with summer 2024 sales so far and has outlined profit expectations for the 2023/4 financial year ahead of results announcement

Industry united on need to reform air passenger compensation laws, says DfT

The Department for Transport says it is still hopeful of changing EU261 passenger compensation laws following Brexit, something that has broad industry support

Red Sea Holidays hires Sarah Lavender as trade relations manager

Lavender has previously worked at Tenerity Travel, Tui, First Choice Holidays and Going Places

Valladolid to host 2024 Aito conference in November

The event will be held over 21-24 November

European tailor-made brand targets agents with UK market launch

Paris-based Worldia has launched in the UK after it was granted an Atol, aiming to become a go-to tech-led B2B brand for agents

Jet2 boss: SAF delays put UK holidaymakers ‘at a competitive disadvantage’

‘We need government action to turbocharge the UK SAF industry,’ said Jet2.com and Jet2holidays chief executive Steve Heapy

Gold Medal puts five Sri Lanka fam trip places up for grabs

The fam incentive supports the launch of the operator’s first destination brochure of the year – Indian Ocean and Africa

CV Villas takes on Lucy Gwinnell as business development executive

Gwinnell brings nearly a decade’s travel industry experience with British Airways to her new trade team role with the villa specialist

Prestige Travel hires agent Tracey Bates to sales team after record March

Operator brings in Australia and New Zealand specialist Bates after ‘record-breaking’ March sales

‘Becoming B Corp Certified will be a minimum standard in travel’

Not in the Guidebooks boss Carol Savage tells TTG about the latest milestone in the four-year journey and how travel agents remain the core of the operator’s growth plans

How Tui is changing travel – one giant tub of Nutella at a time

Net zero by 2050? It’s undoubtedly going to be a huge task, especially for travel. But the Tui Blue Montafon is forging a path, one giant tub of Nutella at a time. Gary Noakes reports exclusively for TTG

EasyJet holidays grows trade team to six with two experienced hires

Jo Brookman and Dale Marriott join the airline and operator’s trade team as trade distribution managers, bringing almost 50 years’ industry experience

Caroline Burroughs returns to travel with Not in the Guidebooks

Experience specialist names former Wendy Wu Tours trade support manager Burroughs its new trade sales development manager

Premier Holidays names Nicky Bird as new southern BDM

Nicky Bird, who joins from Red Sea Holidays, has replaced Karen Milward at the Cambridgeshire-based operator

UK's largest OTA adds more than one million seats to its Atol

Loveholidays has cemented its position as the UK’s biggest OTA and third-largest Atol-holder with a big leap in licensed capacity added during the spring renewal period

Why Sri Lanka is the next big safari destination agents need to know about

Safari specialist Mahlatini is branching out with the launch of its first product outside Africa, featuring 18 itineraries in Sri Lanka

Tui expands summer 2025 programme to more than 10 million seats

Operator adds 345,000 seats for summer 2025 and will base an extra aircraft in Exeter

EasyJet relaunches Alicante route from Newcastle airport

Twice-weekly service took off on Tuesday (2 April) and will operate through to the end of October on Tuesdays and Saturdays

Jet2 confirms resort flight check-in, flight deck and cabin crew redundancies

Consultations with affected employees under way following the airline and operator’s review of its operations in Spain

Classic Collection to be consolidated into ‘single’ B2B sales brand

It comes after Classic Collection chief executive Andy Freeth and product and commercial director Alex Gavalda left the company earlier this month

Jet2 to up capacity at new Liverpool base by more than a quarter next year

Jet2 will operate flights to 20 European destinations this summer, and expects to increase capacity at Liverpool by 28% next year