
Quick, Quick, Slow
Can you answer an (online) travel request in less than a minute. Yes, you can.... but it will be wrong (probably)

Meta Check This Carefully
Meta-search websites are great things and can be very helpful. As an agent, one knows a lot of wrinkles that can be actioned to get a fare for any journey that looks and feels right. A fare which represents good value for money (which is, I should add, NOT the same as "the cheapest" by a long chalk). Sometimes you do, however, exhaust your options and still, do not feel that what you have represents good value. Here, meta-search sites come in handy. They can guide you to opti

Another Lost Dream
As yet another airline that sought to fly the Atlantic bites the dust, one has to ask - why? The trail of attempted trans-Atlantic (indeed, just long-haul) failures is many and varied; as is some that just got caught in that maelstrom of me-too airlines. Too many seats chasing too few passengers. Freight was always (and still is) attractive. Indeed, transporting humans never really was a good idea and up until about 1930, was never really considered a worthwhile option. Human