UK travel giants Tui and Thomas Cook are likely to report losses this week as they announce their latest results. The firms’ profits have been hit by the social and political upheavals in the Middle East and North Africa and because of the rocketing price of oil. Tui, owner of Thomson and First Choice, could [...]

Travel operator Thomas Cook is in a row after pricing 2012 Olympic package prices up to 200% higher than normal rates. The Mirror reported this week that it had obtained documents confirming that the company is charging as much as three times previously quoted prices seen for flights and hotel rooms in London during the [...]

Travel operator Thomas Cook has reported that many in the UK are forgoing their annual sunshine holiday. The news from the package holiday firm comes in contrast to firms elsewhere in Europe, where booking numbers are reportedly doing well. But Thomas Cook said this week that bookings in the UK have ‘slowed noticeably’ due to [...]

Families planning to fly off on holiday later this year will be relieved by Chancellor George Osborne’s decision not to hike up Air Passenger Duty in his budget. The controversial tax already adds £240 to the cost of a family of four’s airline tickets to Florida. Any increase has been postponed until April next year. [...]

Major British tour operators Thomson and Thomas Cook have declared that it is once again business as usual in Tunisia. Both have confirmed that they will be resuming services and Thomas Cook has already flown tourists into Monastir Airport. Thomson said it intends to start bringing customers in as of 13 March. The decision to [...]

Bookings on Thomas Cook holidays will once again include a fuel surcharge. The travel firm blames the reinstatement on record-high fuel costs, which officials say has forced them to pass part of the cost on to passengers. Fuel surcharges will add as much as 4% to the total cost of a holiday. The levy was [...]

Travel companies Co-op and Thomas Cook are seeking a speedy resolution to their plans for a tie-up. Both are requesting that the Competition Commission revue the plans immediately rather than wait for the Office of Fair Trading to refer the case, which could take a further three weeks. If the tie-up is allowed, the combination [...]

President Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year regime may have come to an end, but the Foreign Office is still warning Brits that all but the most essential travel to Egypt’s larger cities should be avoided. Suez, Luxor, Alexandria and the capital Cairo are likely to remain the focus of large gatherings following the president’s departure. Martial law [...]

UK tour operators continue to urge that business continues as usual at Egypt’s Red Sea resorts. The news comes amid nearly two weeks of unprecedented protests that have crippled the country’s major cities including Cairo, Alexandria and Suez. However this week both Thomas Cook and TUI Travel assured holidaymakers that resort areas such as Sharm [...]

UK-based air carriers are largely opposed to the government reducing its stake in the national air traffic control system. The news comes from the Observer, which has reported that government officials are currently considering reducing the dominant 49% state share of the NATS agency in the effort of paying off the UK’s ballooning deficit. However [...]