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Why are you Brits such DRUNKS?

'Why are you Brits such DRUNKS?', asks one American writer By Sarah Lyall She’s got used to the endless cups of tea. Your men, she says, can’t even woo a lady without one sherbert too many... What is it about British people and...

Simon Calder: Sycophancy and scorn as the travel trade heads south

Choosing street names is not the most challenging task on the municipal agenda in Spanish towns and cities. Saints, military heroes and nobility provide plenty of scope, as demonstrated by a sequence of plazas in the middle of...

Questions of Cash: 'Exchange rates left me dangling on earrings refund'

Q. In Copenhagen in March, I wanted to buy some earrings from Magasin du Nord. I asked the price, and thought the assistant said 1,100 krone (£105). After the debit card payment was processed, I realised the price was actually...

Stansted airport expansion to go ahead

Britain’s biggest budget airline hub received the go-ahead to handle 10 million more passengers but was warned by Ryanair and easyJet that it faces fewer flights if it hikes fees to pay for the expansion. The government...

Thousands of flights scrapped by airlines

Services are being cut as carriers respond to the economic crisis, while bookmakers take bets on the next airline failure. By David Millward and Charles Starmer-Smith Figures show that demand for travel is shrinking throughout...

Barcelona for under £200 Travel

Continuing his series on budget weekend breaks, Fred Mawer explores a city where some of the best things are still free. That said, day-to-day costs in Barcelona are quite high by Spanish standards. Certainly, when it comes to...

Interview: Michael O'Leary, the no-frills boss who keeps one foot on the ground

He has made Ryanair into a bigger airline than BA. Now O'Leary is looking to profit from the crisis in aviation Michael O'Leary steeled us for the worst earlier this year when he said Europe needed a "good, deep, bloody...

Airline industry faces 'year of hell'

The airline industry is facing a “year of hell” that could be worse than the downturn after the attacks of 9/11, the industry warned. Mike Ambrose, the director general of the European Regional Airlines (ERA), which represents...

Venice

In... Venice map Why go now? Touch down Venice's Marco Polo airport is on the mainland, about 12km from the city. The city is divided in six districts or sestieri and split in two by the Grand Canal. This creates a giant jigsaw...

EasyJet CEO sees tough environment in 2009

British low-cost airline easyJet Plc expects the industry to face a "very tough" consumer environment next year, Chief Executive Andy Harrison said. Carriers will face higher fuel costs as the US dollar strengthens against the...

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