Due to popular demand, Thomas Cook Holidays Ireland has added an extra flight to Reus and another to Menorca for the summer 2013 season – and has also added new accommodation on the Costa Daurada. The Reus flight departs on Mondays from June to August, departing Dublin at 07.50 to arrive in Reus at 11.10, [...]
“We are very proud of our ‘coffee table’ edition of Summersun 2013 brochure,” said Chris Merriman, Deputy Managing Director of Thomas Cook Holidays Ireland at the launch of the company’s brochure (all 268 pages!) to travel media on Tuesday evening. “We are offering a differentiating product,” he added, “and we are happy to report that [...]
Thomas Cook Holidays (Ireland) is seeking someone to join its sales team based at head office in Park West Business Park, Dublin 12, and also an experienced yield controller. The yield controller will be responsible for maximising the yield of assigned routes/flights and will manage all aspects of the yield function to maximise the result [...]
“We’ve changed, remodelled, and now have a diversified range of products, all of which are primarily sold through the retail travel trade, John Kinane, Managing Director of Thomas Cook Holidays Ireland, told more than 30 travel agents who were hosted to lunch today at the Dylan Hotel in Dublin. “The staff at Parkwest now number [...]
Thomas Cook Holidays Ireland is to reduce its staff numbers by some 20 people to a total of 40-50 as it implements the results of its collective consultation period on the company’s restructuring plans. “The consultation was completed on 31st January, some counter proposals were put forward and some changes were made to our plans,” [...]
Sam Weihagen, Group Chief Executive of Thomas Cook, has announced that the company has obtained bank funding of £200 million (€233m) and said that it would “live on for at least another 170 years and is now even stronger and more confident”. The funding approved by the company’s syndicate of banks, including Barclays, HSBC, RBS [...]
To celebrate the launch of Flexibletrips.ie, Thomas Cook Holidays Ireland is giving travel agents the chance to win a white iPad. Simply make a booking on Flexibletrips between now and 28th July and email your name and the booking reference to agencysales@flexibletrips.ie. The more bookings you make the more chances you have to win. There [...]
Emirates Airlines Appoints AnitaThomas as Key Account Manager Ireland http://t.co/sGdmbPIo8t via @ittn_ie #Aviation
Thomas Cook Invites Agents Onboard P&O Adonia
The Specialist Sales team at Thomas Cook Ireland invited Irish travel agents onboard the P&O Adonia, which will make a 112-night world cruise from Southampton on 7thJanuary 2014, when the ship visited Dublin Port yesterday – during the week in which, 152 years ago in 1861, a group of holidaymakers set off with Thomas Cook [...]
SAS Ireland Confirms Move to Become a GSA
As revealed by Irish Travel Trade News on 25th March, SAS has today confirmed that on 1stJune 2013 the existing SAS Ireland organisation will move to a GSA managed by Alan Sparling, the current Country Manager for Scandinavian Airlines. Nothing changes in terms of the flight schedule that SAS operates at present from Dublin and [...]
Emirates Appoints Anita as Key Account Manager
Emirates today announced the appointment of Anita Thomas to the position of Key Account Manager for Ireland. Anita’s remit will be the Irish corporate market, where she has extensive experience. Margaret Shannon, Country Manager for Emirates in Ireland, said: “Anita is not only bringing 20 years of airline industry experience to this role, but also [...]
Flybe to Transfer London Gatwick Slots to easyJet for £20m
Flybe has announced that it has reached a conditional agreement to transfer all its 25 pairs of arrival and departure slots at London Gatwick Airport to easyJet for £20.0 million. EasyJet said it would use the 25 pairs of slots to launch new routes from Gatwick and to add additional flights on its most popular [...]
Jet2.com and Norwegian Join easyJet in Travelport Merchandising Platform
Travelport has announced that European low-cost carriers Jet2.com and Norwegian are the latest participants in the aggregated shopping component of its recently launched Travelport Merchandising Platform. Travelport Aggregated Shopping, an industry first, consolidates within the same screen, shopping results from traditional carriers who connect through ATPCO with those from low-cost carriers and others who prefer [...]
Amadeus Introduces Amadeus Cruise Shop
Amadeus has announced the launch of Amadeus Cruise Shop, a business-to-business shopping application that builds on the Amadeus Cruise product. All users of Amadeus Cruise Shop will benefit from smarter comprehensive search functionality coupled with dynamically filtered results. To help travel professionals tap into the growing popularity of cruise holidays, Amadeus Cruise Shop caters to [...]
