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Hotel Review: Syntopia, Crete
An Instagrammable boho-chic hotel in Greek paradise.
Head to Majorca this summer
Majorca is a fantastic destination for a driving holiday if you want to travel somewhere with amazing landscapes, delicious food, stunning architecture, and rich culture.
Cost of holidays to soar by £225 per person under no-deal Brexit
The combined increase in the cost of flights, hotels, insurance and mobile roaming fees could add hundreds to a standard vacation to the continent.
Worst airline for UK flight delays revealed
Vueling Airlines has the worst punctuality of major airlines flying from UK airports, an investigation has found. The Spanish carrier’s UK departures were 31 minutes late on average in 2018, according to analysis of Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) data by the PA news agency. Thomas Cook Airlines was found to have the second worst performance with flights typically 24 minutes late, followed by Wizz Air (23 minutes), Norwegian Air UK (22 minutes) and Eurowings (22 minutes). Norwegian Air UK is...
Virgin Orbit hails test of air-launched satellite booster
The 70ft LauncherOne rocket was released from a Boeing 747 over California.
Dozens of flights affected after air traffic control problem at Gatwick Airport
A total of 26 flights had been diverted and eight cancelled.
25hours Hotel Terminus Nord: hotel review
Unique hotel opposite the Gare du Nord station, with design inspired by African and Asian influences from its local community.
Police ‘had only trained to deal with one drone at a time’ before Gatwick travel chaos
Police failed to stop drones causing chaos near Gatwick Airport because they had only trained to deal with one device at a time, a senior officer has suggested. A number of drone sightings forced Britain’s second-busiest airport to shut down for 33 hours in December, disrupting 140,000 passengers’ journeys. The chaos continued despite a huge police operation and the Army was eventually called in to bring the incident under control. Queues of passengers in the check-in area at Gatwick Airport...
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic to become first public space company
Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic is to become the first publicly traded company for human space travel after it announced a merger with a major investment vehicle. The company, which plans to offer multi-day trips to space, has announced a deal to combine with New York-listed Social Capital Hedosophia (SCH), led by former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya. The deal has an enterprise value of 1.5 billion US dollars (£1.2 billion) and is expected to give current shareholders of SCH a...