Mid haul

Silver Travel Advisor seals Advantage partnership

Consortium targets mature market with specialist alliance

Thomas Cook reveals new financial products

Thomas Cook to offer daily travel insurance and payment card app

JTA Travel appoints new head of tour operations

Dave Green joins JTA from Belleair

Carrier HQ's sales team to only deal with trade enquiries from December 4

The operator said the move further demonstrated its commitment to agents

Thomas Cook Airlines among carriers filling gaps at Luton

Monarch’s demise leaves space at Luton airport

Tenerife marine park loses court battle over orca welfare

Animal rights charity PETA claims victory against Loro Parque

Olympic names new head of purchasing

Ricky Wason will join the European island specialist operator from dnata Travel

Saga Holidays recruits new head of trade sales

Powell, who is a former member of TTG’s 30 Under 30 programme, will join operator from Carnival UK in early 2018

Aito 'applauds' investigation into hotel booking sites

The CMA launched its probe last week after it was concerned about the “accuracy and presentation of information on sites”

G Adventures rebrands Yolo tour programme

Touring specialist wants to make brand more “transparent”

Government 'will examine better ways of handling airline failures'

Lords signal consultation with industry over airline insolvencies

Dnata boss insists Gold Medal and Travel 2 will remain 'distinct'

Dnata’s head of B2C Europe Andy Washington also told TTG that the two brands would also remain B2B

End of an era as Thomson brand is killed off

Thomson officially becomes Tui UK amid massive ad campaign

Two Thomas Cook executives to leave

Shake-up at Cook as management roles reshuffled

Storm Ophelia leads to swathe of flight cancellations

Airlines have cancelled a swathe of flights across the Irish Sea as Ireland began to receive its fiercest storm in 50 years

Government 'will let failing airlines wind down', expert predicts

Monarch will prompt government to change law on how collapses are handled

Government calls for evidence on fake sickness claims

Travel industry urged to submit details of increase in bogus claims

Tui to move call centre jobs from Luton to Swansea

Operator confirms that 50 employees are “at risk” of redundancy

Travel Network Group invites agents to ‘Be’ part of its autumn campaign

Consortium’s autumn sales message will include consumer protection details

Thomas Cook announces new UK MD

Tui’s Andrew Flintham has been named UK managing director while Chris Mottershead has moved up to the role of UK source market and group differentiated product

Israel seeks to replace Monarch Eilat flight

Incentive offered to help attract Ovda service

Thomas Cook pilots call off strikes

Eight days of strikes scrapped by Thomas Cook Airlines’ pilots

Trade rallies to help Monarch customers

Agents and operators move quickly to rebook flights

Government orders CAA to repatriate all Monarch customers

All passengers will be flown back to UK even if they were not covered Atol