Short haul operators

'Bumper' late season snow boosts ski sector ahead of Easter

Sector enjoys strong last-minute demand for high-altitude European resorts

Jet2holidays to stop selling marine parks featuring captive cetaceans

Jet2’s announcement comes after easyJet holidays earlier this month confirmed it would stop selling zoos and marine parks under its new animal welfare policy

Jet2 boss rules out Gatwick launch and says no more new bases after Bournemouth

Steve Heapy has signalled an end to Jet2’s expansion into new UK bases following the announcement of a move into Bournemouth airport in 2025

Jet2.com and Jet2holidays names Bournemouth as its 12th UK base

Jet2 flights will take off from Bournemouth next summer (2025), flying to 16 destinations across Europe, the Canaries and the Med

EasyJet lands at Birmingham airport – but can it take on Jet2 and Tui?

Midlands agents welcome easyJet’s first new base for nearly 10 years as the competition between travel’s new big three hots up

Jet2 expands Bulgaria programme with new Black Sea resort

Chief executive Steve Heapy said the addition of Sozopol came ’in response to strong demand for gateways to Bulgaria’

Intrepid Travel turns around £9 million loss to post record annual profit

Intrepid Travel’s annual report reveals its fortunes in a year of recovery with optimistic forecasts for 2024

EasyJet to roll out new Cairo resources to agents and hints at fam opportunities

Besides new social and shop window collateral, easyJet and easyJet holidays is looking to expand its Cairo programme – and could host an agent fam to the Egyptian capital

EasyJet holidays bans zoos and marine parks in new animal welfare policy

EasyJet holidays it had consulted with animal rights groups such as World Animal Protection in creating the new policy

Red Sea Holidays names new business development executive

Specialist names Josh Bull as its new business development executive for the north

Tui to add 1,000 hotels to support trend towards 'flexible durations'

Airline and operator identifies nine-day stays as the most popular alternative duration for summer 2024

Jet2 appoints former easyJet strategy director to its board

Rachel Kentleton to join the airline and operator’s board next week following Mark Laurence’s retirement

What's coming down the river over the next couple of years?

Harry Kemble plots a course through the new ships and itineraries arriving in the river cruise sector during 2024 and 2025

Si Morris-Green to step up at Classic Collection as Andy Freeth departs

Trade specialist set to lose its chief executive and product and commercial boss in wholesale changes at the top

Balkan Holidays recruits former agent Natasha Smith as new RSM

Smith will look after agents in southern England and south Wales, with Wayne Szczambura taking the lead in central England and north Wales

Jet2 signs SAF trial deal at Bristol airport

Jet2 will add a 1% Sustainable Aviation Fuel blend to some of its flights from Bristol in a pilot scheme later this year

Jet2 to launch eighth Christmas market destination next winter

Jet2.com and Jet2holidays will operate twice-weekly services to Gdansk from Manchester and Birmingham airports

‘Strong appetite for package holidays’, says rebranded Kuoni parent

Der Touristik Group to fully rebrand as Dertour Group by the end of 2025

EasyJet holidays bolsters executive line-up with two promotions

Paul Bixby named chief commercial officer, while Matt Callaghan becomes chief operating officer

Classic Collection names Ashleigh Raymond its new northern RSM

Raymond, who has previously held sales manager roles at Tui and Virgin Holidays, will be responsible for Classic’s relationships with agents in the north of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland

Tui puts new tours to Canada, Mexico and Norway on sale

Commercial director Phillip Iveson said the tours were tailored to offer customers more flexibility

Adam Morris and Sarah Ashmore join growing Kuoni trade team

Morris and Ashmore, who join Kuoni from Azamara and Attraction World respectively, will take up the two new trade partnership manager roles

EasyJet claims UK airline first with new Amalfi coast flights

EasyJet will be the first UK airline to launch flights to Salerno where a former military airport is due to open to commercial flights for the first time in July

Majority would forgo free holiday to country deemed unsafe by FCDO

A poll of 4,000 travellers found three-quarters would turn down a free holiday to a destination where the FCDO had issued a travel warning