HEADLINES – AVIATION – AFLOAT – DEALWATCH – FOOD & WINE – HOTELS – INTERNATIONAL – IRELAND – STRANGE WORLD – TRAVEL TRADE   Things to know about travel this week Irish aviation’s 30bn spending spree in Paris Dublin airport’s new record, 102,000 passengers in one day KLM to stay 5 daily on Dublin Amsetrdam in […]

Etihad Airways is to end its complimentary chauffeur service at Dublin Airport for Business and First Class passengers. The service will be retained only at the airline’s Abu Dhabi hub.  Etihad said it was amending its chauffeur policy “following a review of usage by premium guests across all major markets” and said the service will […]

From July 3, Ryanair customers can: Book connecting flights on the first 25 (of up to 300 new routes) via Milan Bergamo on Ryanair.com Connect to/from Alicante, Athens, Barcelona, Bari, Brindisi, Cagliari, Catania, Corfu, Ibiza, Lanzarote, Lamezia, Madrid, Malaga, Malta, Naples, Palermo, Pescara, Trapani, Valencia and Zaragoza Transfer ‘airside’ between connecting flights without having to […]

  Teletext Holidays launch in Ireland Holiday options now available to Irish holiday consumers Fast, user friendly site to offer thousands of worldwide holiday options CAR Licence No TA 0771 Teletext Holidays, the longest established digital travel agency in England has launched an Irish operation. The ‘bucket and spade, cheap and cheerful’ holiday company, which also […]

Tourism Ireland is celebrating this week after its Game of Thrones campaign won two awards – a gold and a silver – at the prestigious Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity on the French Riviera. The Cannes Lions awards are seen as the Oscars of the advertising and marketing world, and Tourism Ireland was awarded a Gold […]

Qatar Airways is to launch its latest tie-in with the Irish equestrian and horse racing sectors, announcing a partnership with The Curragh following the inaugural Dublin-Doha flight on June 12. Qatar Airways was also recently announced official airline partner of the 2017 Dublin Horse Show. Former champion jockey Johnny Murtagh, who rode to success in the […]

Britain remains our biggest source market for overseas tourists, representing 41pc of all such visits. The next biggest source market is Mainland Europe, which accounts for 36pc of international volume. Some 17pc of overseas tourists come from North America. The balance, 6pc, comes from other long haul markets. For holidays, Mainland Europe generates 39pc of our […]

Up to three flights per day from Dublin to London Southend, seven days a week, commencing October 29 New route is part of Stobart’s growth strategy including a €25m investment, 60 new jobs and addition of two new Embraer E195s jet aircraft to its fleet Lead in fares from €29.99 one way, including taxes and […]

Ryanair is to buy 10 more Boeing 737 Max 200 aircraft, five of which will deliver in the first half of 2019, with the remainder arriving in the first half of 2020. The airline said that this new order, which is valued at more than $1.1bn at current list prices, will, together with the existing […]