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EasyJet Delivers Chania’s First Tourists of 2021 Season

2021-03-29 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Direct flights from Liverpool to Estonia by Easyjet are pushing up visitors numbers

A flight carrying some cast and crew of a German gat reality show landed in Chania’s ”Ioannis Daskalogiannis” airport over the weekend.

Tags: Brandenburg, Chania, Chania hotels, Chania tourists, Chania visitors, EasyJet, EasyJet Holidays, German tourists, Kissamos

Easyjet Offers Half a Million Discounted Seats Until June 30 of 2021

2020-11-14 by Argophilia Travel News

EasyJet Aircraft

Easyjet has just announced it will offer over half a million seats at discounted rates throughout its network until June 30, 2021.

Tags: Berlin seats, Budapest holidayy, cheap flights, cheap travel, EasyJet, flight bookings, flight deals, flights, Mallorca travel

Easyjet Set to Expand Holiday Flights Due To Demand

2020-08-04 by Argophilia Travel News

EasyJet Aircraft

Budget airline Easyjet is about to expand its flight schedule over the remainder of the summer to cover a higher than expected demand

Tags: 2020 airlines, airline flights, Airline stocks, airlines, budget airlines, EasyJet, Summer flights

TUI Group to Cut 8,000 Jobs as Stocks Plummet Farther

2020-05-13 by Phil Butler

TUI Group logo

TUI Group has announced cutting 8,000 jobs in an effort to reduce costs amid the coronavirus crisis, even as stocks plummet farther.

Tags: Carnival, COVID-19, EasyJet, Fritz Joussen, tour companies, tourism, tourism industry, travel destinations, TUI, TUI AG/ADR, TUI Group, TUI shares, TUI stocks, TUI Travel

easyJet Launches New Flexible Holiday Business with Handpicked Hotels

2019-11-29 by Argophilia Travel News

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easyJet has announced a new holiday business which offers great-value holidays to handpicked hotels across Europe.

Tags: airline deals, airline news, airline offers, airline seats, airlines, Bookings, EasyJet, flights, holiday deals, Holidays, jet holidays, vacations

EasyJet to Recruit More Than 1,200 New Cabin Crew

2018-07-27 by Argophilia Travel News

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EasyJet announced that it is to recruit more than 1200 new permanent and fixed term cabin crew positions, over half of which will be based in the UK. The carrier, which flies more than 300 aircraft on over 1000 routes in 33 countries, will offer its new cabin crew positions at some of easyJet’s largest […]

Tags: Airbus, airline news, airline rewards, airlines, EasyJet, flights

TUI and easyJet Partner for Crete and Rhodes Flights

2016-12-06 by Aleksandr Shatskih

In news from easyJet, the air carrier is slated to carry out TUI flights from Berlin to Heraklion, Rhodes, and Tenerife in the Summer of 2017. The British low-cost carrier also partnered with TUI for travel to Holland. Both companies share good and bad news edging into Q4 of 2016.

Tags: airlines, EasyJet, low cost, peakwork, travel, TUI

Will Monarch’s new flight plan take off?

2014-10-31 by Phil Butler

Courtesy Monarch

News last week that leading UK leisure airline Monarch received an influx of £125 million of permanent capital from investors Greybull Capital LLP tells of a cutthroat competitive market.

Tags: airline news, Althea Village, EasyJet, Greybull, Monarch, Ryanair, TUI, UK airlines

EasyJet Adds Mobile Check-in to 38 European Airports

2013-07-03 by Aleksandr Shatskih

easyjet mobile

EasyJet expanded mobile check-in and boarding passes to flights departing from 38 airports across Europe.

Tags: air travel, EasyJet, mobile boarding pass

easyJet + British Airways Secure London to Moscow Flights

2012-10-28 by Aleksandr Shatskih

easyJet and British Airways have just landed the right to operate flights to Russian capital Moscow, at the expense of Virgin Atlantic whose bid to secure what is one of Europe’s most flight routes was rejected.

Tags: BA, bmi, British Airways, EasyJet, London to Moscow, Moscow flights, Virgin Atlantic

easyJet Wins London to Moscow Route

2012-10-25 by Phil Butler

EasyJet Aircraft

According to news from easyJet, the low cost airline will begin operating flights between London and Moscow starting early next year. Britain’s Civil Aviation Authority having granted the license to EasyJet in preference to Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic, officials cite EasyJet fare benefits as the reason.

Tags: EasyJet, flights, Moscow flights, Russia fares, russia flights, UK flights

Social Media Puts Airlines and Consumers in Touch

2011-07-28 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Scott Dorsey at Connections 2010

With the Summer travel season underway full tilt, major airlines engage customers via social media channels. Planning a trip or vacation has never been easier, or more socially connected than this year. ExactTarget helps put companies and customers in the digital conversation – better communication, means better customer retention, according to anyone’s news.

Tags: airBaltic, airline tools, EasyJet, ExactTarget, Facebook, G+, Hawaiian Airlines, Icelandair, JetBlue, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Salesforce.com, Scott Dorsey, Social media tools, social travel, travel tools, Twitter, United, US Airways

Strikes Across Europe – Some Travel Grinds to Halt

2011-06-29 by Phil Butler

If the vote goes wrong - Greece could tumble into anarchy

Just when you’d think European travelers may have had their fill of airline delays and disruptions, industry workers in the UK, Greece, and France decide it’s time to strike some more. A walk out by taxi drivers in Paris, striking air traffic controllers in Greece, and UK border officials demonstrating, these latest upheavals cannot help Europe travel.

Tags: air delays, air traffic strike, Athens riots, Athens travel, border, EasyJet, EU, EU austerity, EU Travel, Europe travel, France taxis, Greece austerity, Greece riots, Greece tourism, Greek government, Paris travel, Ryanair, taxi strike, travel news, travel security, UK riots, UK strike

Opodo Deal Gets EU Thumbs Up

2011-05-31 by Phil Butler

Opodo UK landing

Private equity firm Permira, and France’s Axa, have received the “go” from EU regulators in their bid to buy online travel entity Opodo. The two investors intent to merge the Spanish Opodo company with Go Voyages and eDreams will create one of the digital world’s biggest online booking agencies.

Tags: Air France, Alitalia, Amadeus, Axa, EasyJet, eDreams, EU, EU Travel, EU travel commission, Europe travel, Expedia, Go Voyages, online companies, online travel, Opodo, OTA, Permira, regulators, Ryanair, travel commission, travel deals

EasyJet Looks to EU to Fund Ash Cloud Detector

2011-04-19 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Volcanic Ash

EasyJet has asked the European Union to help fund a new volcanic ash detection system for aircraft.  The technology, developed by the Norwegian Institute for Air Research, is designed to do what radars cannot: detect the presence of dangerous dust particles and volcanic ash in the air, giving them time to adjust course. The detection […]

Tags: Airborne Volcanic Object Identifier and Detector, AVOID, EasyJet, European Union, Iceland, Norwegian Institute for Air Research, UK, volcanic ash

Egypt Launches Initiative to Boost Tourism

2011-04-03 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Egyptian tourism chiefs are desperate for tourists to come back

Egypt yesterday announced plans to roll out a travel recovery plan in the tourism-dependent country, following the political upheaval over the last couple of months which saw President Hosni Mubarak removed from power and tourists desert the nation in their droves.

Tags: EasyJet, Egypt, Egyptian government, Hosni Mubarak, north african, Sharm El-Sheikh, travel recovery plan, TUI Travel

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