January 31st - Travel trends: turning Japanese
January seems to have been going on forever, which has been dismal for many – but promising for travel agents. I’ve been talking to Ashley Quint, director of Hertfordshire agency Travel Time. There’s ...
31 Jan 20255min
January 30th - The village standing in Heathrow's way
After Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced government backing for expansion at London Heathrow airport, I've been to Harmondsworth – the pretty village that will be half-demolished if the plan for a thi...
30 Jan 20257min
January 29th - What we can do about poor airport connectivity
On the day chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to back expansion at Heathrow, I'm talking to Paul Charles, chief executive of the PC Agency and former communications director for Virgin Atlantic. He ...
29 Jan 20256min
January 28th - The aviation jargon you didn't know you needed
It’s Travel Desk Tuesday, and today I’m talking to my excellent colleague Natalie Wilson about new aviation jargon creeping into the travel lexicon: lice, of the gate and aisle varieties; check-in chi...
28 Jan 20257min
27th January - Seeing the world through a reporter’s lens
Nicholas and Karen Wood run Political Tours, which aims to help you "see the world like a reporter does". On their travel agenda this year: Mexico (the country, not the Gulf), Trieste to Rome in Italy...
27 Jan 20256min
January 24th - The worst weather-related travel chaos of my career
It's grim out there! Today I'm at London's Kings Cross station reporting on what might just be the worst weather-related travel chaos I've ever seen. There are cancellations and closures in the skies,...
24 Jan 20255min
January 23rd - Is Heathrow nearer to a third runway?
I'm still hearing views on Heathrow, today from John Strickland of JLS Consulting – who wonders if he will still be around when a third runway is built? As the Labour government inches nearer a decisi...
23 Jan 20257min
January 22nd - Heathrow Hubbub
I'm back at Heathrow – where, as I discussed yesterday, reports suggest the third runway could be given the green light. Several developments since then: Environmentalist George Monbiot has revived ca...
22 Jan 20256min
