Travel Alert – France

Rail workers to stage a strike from 7pm April 25 until 8 am April 27, in an ongoing dispute with national train operator SNCF. Expect major disruption.

Baku Suspension

It has been brought to our attention that British Airways have decided to suspend flights to and from Baku in Azerbaijan as they are no longer commercially viable. The final service will depart Heathrow on 29 April 2016, with the return flight from Baku departing on 29 April 2016. The following link will provide you with guidelines for this matter. …

Changes to Passport Requirements for the USA

Please be aware that important changes have been made to passport requirements for the US. For all clients travelling on the Visa Waiver Programme to the US on or after 1 April 2016, they must have an ePassport. To check if your customers already have one, please ask them to simply check their current passport for the ePassport symbol on …

New Dundee to Amsterdam Flights from May 2016

FLYBE CONFIRMS NEW INTERNATIONAL ROUTE FROM DUNDEE TO AMSTERDAM Flybe has today confirmed the details of an all year round service between Dundee and Amsterdam Schiphol Airports.  This service will operate six times per week as a part of the summer 2016 schedule effective from May 23rd, 2016.  Tickets are now available for booking with limited one way fares from …

DP&L Travel Management partner with Mystifly

DP&L Travel have started a partnership to work with award winning airfare consolidation services company, Mystifly, offering airfare content from 900+ airlines across 70 countries. The “Myfarebox” product will allow our reservations team to access consolidator/ private, public & market specific local airfares from around the globe, alongside our current UK contracted fares, therefore offering an even wider range of discounted …

DP&L Travel Management help with last minute travel

DP&L Travel Management are proud to have been able to help with last minute travel for a client who was to attend a fund raising event for a member of his family and popular school teacher at Madras College who earlier had been diagnosed with motor neurone disease.  DP&L Travel Management worked past the usual office hours finding a very last minute flight at a very …

QATAR AIRWAYS VOTED BUSINESS AIRLINE OF THE YEAR FOR SECOND YEAR IN A ROW

Qatar Airways was last week awarded ‘Business Airline of the Year’ for the second consecutive year at the prestigious UK Business Travel Awards 2015 held in London at the Grosvenor House Hotel. Last year Qatar Airways started a direct service from Edinburgh to Doha using the brand new Boeing 787 “Dreamliner” and, from the 1st May 2015, this service will …

Wizz Air to launch Aberdeen – Gdansk flight route

Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, today announced a new scheduled service between Aberdeen and the Polish city of Gdansk. The new service will start from Aberdeen International Airport on 19 June as a twice weekly service, on Monday and Friday, and will be operated with a 180 seat Airbus A320 aircraft. The flight will …

Strong performance in December sees Edinburgh Airport break 10m barrier for 2014

Edinburgh Airport has topped off another record-breaking year with over 10 million passengers travelling through its terminal in 2014. Last year Edinburgh saw more passengers than any other Scottish airport, marking a 4% increase on 2013’s passenger figures. A total of 10,174,684 people flew in and out of Scotland’s busiest airport over the last 12 months making last year the …