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Jet2: ‘Consumer confidence at highest level since onset of Covid’
Airline and operator’s polling suggests seven in 10 respondents now feel confident about booking new holidays, and travelling
Flybe goes on sale as brand returns after two-year absence
Flybe Ltd is on sale with 23 routes from April
Southend airport owners pledge funds but new carriers unlikely this summer
Southend airport owners signal no more carriers returning this summer
P&O Ferries told to explain itself today as government denies inaction
P&O Ferries is the subject of heated parliamentary debate with government denying it could have acted to halt job losses
EasyJet adds another summer route from Southend
EasyJet adds Portugal flight from Essex airport
P&O Ferries defends shock sacking of 800 crew
Impacted staff are being urged by union reps to stay onboard vessels at ports including Dover and Hull and pull up gangplanks
Bryony Boulter joins Classic Collection from Jet2holidays
Former Jet2 sales executive appointed Classic regional sales manager for the south west and south Wales
The great British take-off: filling the Thomas Cook-shaped gap in travel
Cook’s collapse in 2019 created a near-2.5 million annual passenger gap – Gary Noakes explores how airlines hope to fill this during what is, hopefully, the first full summer since Cook’s demise
Classic's Si Morris-Green to house Ukrainian refugees
Morris-Green appeared on BBC Breakfast on Tuesday (15 March) after signing up to the UK government’s Homes for Ukraine scheme
'This is a watershed moment for the travel industry'
Abta, Advantage, SPAA and WTTC all hail government plans to end of testing and passenger locator forms from 4am on Friday (18 March)
End of travel curbs marks 'real beginning of recovery'
Industry hails government’s plans to end all Covid-era travel restrictions from 4am Friday (18 March)
Classic's Si Morris-Green to host Come Dine With Me-style dinner for Ukraine
Classic’s director of agency sales is putting on a three-course dining experience for more than 20 industry guests and friends to raise money for the Red Cross’s Ukraine appeal
Tui pulls brand use agreement with Tui Russia
Tui chief Fritz Joussen said the decision followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Hays North West team enjoy first Jet2 fam for two years
Jet2holidays whisked 16 Hays North West staff away for a three-day five-star trip to Lanzarote to reward them for ’going the extra mile’ during the Covid crisis
Tui's major Russian backer shuffles his shareholding
Oligarch Alexey Mordashov, who resigned from Tui’s supervisory board last week, adjusts his stakeholding as EU sanctions on high-value Russian individuals begin to bite
Ski bookings soar with France poised to ease restrictions
’Booking patterns have completely changed,’ Skiworld’s Diane Palumbo tells TTG
Second Russian quits Tui supervisory board
Vladimir Lukin follows Alexey Mordashov out following sanctions on Russia follow its invasion of Ukraine
Light Blue Travel marks 30th anniversary
Agency and operator Light Blue Travel celebrates 30 years after surviving the pandemic
How will Ukraine cast a shadow over travel?
After encouraging signs of a recovery in January and February, travel has been dealt another blow by events in eastern Europe. Here, industry insiders give their views on the situation
France to further ease Covid restrictions this month
France will relax more Covid rules from 14 March, its prime minister has confirmed
Tui adds more flights at Manchester and Birmingham
Demand for summer holidays leads Tui to add more flights to top summer destinations
Tui's largest single shareholder quits supervisory board
Oligarch Alexey Mordashov, who owns a 34% stake in Tui and was said to have ‘propped up’ the European holiday giant during the Covid crisis, hit by EU sanctions
Tui chief plays down potential risk from major Russian backing
European travel giant’s largest single shareholder is Russian Alexey Mordashov, who holds a 34% stake in the group
Operators suspend Ukraine and Russia programmes as conflict rages
Explore has cancelled all trips to Ukraine until the end of the year, while Real Russia says the effect on business pales into insignificance verses the effect on people living in the region