Skyscanner expands its price-comparison service to include package holidays
Travel desk Tuesday, and my excellent colleague Sophie Dickinson gives her thoughts on the highly popular airfare comparison site moving into the realm of Mediterranean package holidays. She and I dis...
27 Jan 7min
It's Australia Day – but how to make the most of the vast and distant nation?
For insights and advice I've been talking to top expert Lauren McLeod, who heads up the Australia product portfolio for Trailfinders – the largest independently-owned travel company in the UK.This pod...
26 Jan 7min
Liverpool John Lennon airport sets a new passenger record
The UK has a fabulously competitive bunch of airports as well as airlines. Today, I’m talking to John Vincent, chief executive of Liverpool John Lennon – about rivalry with Manchester, what sets the M...
23 Jan 7min
Michael O'Leary on Elon Musk, air traffic control and drinking at airports
In which the chief executive of Ryanair – Europe’s biggest budget airline – challenges the world's richest man to an arm-wrestling contest.This podcast is free, as is Independent Travel's weekly newsl...
22 Jan 7min
If the earth is actually curved, we’ll be able to tell
Fifty years to the day since the first British Airways Concorde took off with passengers on board, a final interview with Blake Scholl, founder of Boom Supersonic – and a word from Cuveé founder, Larr...
21 Jan 7min
Who knows where the tourists go?
Patricia Yates does: she is chief executive of Visit Britain, which has just delivered a major survey on the value of inbound tourism to the UK.This podcast is free, as is Independent Travel's weekly ...
20 Jan 7min
Wish it could be Concorde every day? Hear what a leading environmental campaigner has to say
Back by popular demand: more on supersonic flying. But Anna Hughes, director of Flight Free UK, does not believe we should return to the era of breaking the sound barrier. She recognises the achieveme...
19 Jan 7min
What is the market for supersonic flying?
All week I've been hearing about Boom Supersonic's plan for its Overture aircraft, 50 years after Concorde first flew with paying passengers. For an assessment of the routes on which there could be de...
16 Jan 8min
