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Why the furore over obese passengers? If seats on planes weren't so small, we wouldn't even be discussing this... 23 Aug 2013 | 03:20 pm
Posted by Frank Barrett, Travel Editor, The Mail on Sunday Nobody wants to sit beside a really fat ****** on board. We have been frankly astonished at thenumber of customers who don't only want to ta...
As Laura Ashley goes into the hotel business - is there anyone who isn't? 16 Aug 2013 | 07:02 pm
By Frank Barrett, Travel Editor, The Mail on Sunday Depression is a very bad thing, observes Basil Fawlty: ‘It's like a virus. If you don't stamp on it, it spreads throughout the mind, and then one d...
Beach wails: Isn't it time Hawaii's lead was followed, and cigarettes on the seashore were stubbed out for good? 15 Aug 2013 | 11:56 pm
What do you mean, I'm not allowed to smoke here, etc etc. Pic: Corbis Posted by Chris Leadbeater, Travel Writer, TravelMail Considering that it is now almost half a millennium since Spanish sailors ...
Flying in the Face of Reason: Why the Government’s Stance on Air Passenger Duty is harming British consumers 9 Aug 2013 | 07:23 pm
Guest blogger Tim Hawkins, Corporate Affairs Director at Manchester Airports Group When we pay out for our airline tickets, how many of us actually look closely to check the percentage of tax we are ...
It was 50 years ago today: Holiday memories of a glimpse of The Beatles 9 Aug 2013 | 04:20 pm
Pic: PA Posted by Frank Barrett, Travel Editor, The Mail On Sunday There are places I’ll remember all my life, John Lennon once sang. Funnily enough one of the places I haven't forgotten is the loc...
After the blaze: Why the Nairobi airport fire should not put you off a holiday amid the many wild wonders of Kenya 8 Aug 2013 | 06:20 pm
Pic: EPA Posted by Chris Leadbeater, Travel Writer, TravelMail It is difficult to look at the images of Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta Airport that have emerged in the last two days – smoke billowing fie...
I am NOLA, hear me tweet: Taking over the New Orleans Twitter account 6 Aug 2013 | 03:20 pm
By Paul Oswell, TravelMail writer and New Orleans resident It’s not every week that you get the opportunity to represent 360,000 people on the world stage (albeit online). Yet on Sunday, August 11 at...
Ryanair's latest news about charges make Michael O'Leary look like Dr Evil... 2 Aug 2013 | 05:46 pm
By Frank Barrett, Travel Editor, The Mail on Sunday Ryanair’s ‘table of optional fees’ [www.ryanair.com/en/terms-and-conditions#regulations-tableoffees] now stands 19 items long. The list ranges fro...
All hail the digital revolution? It was a lot easier when rolls of film were king... 26 Jul 2013 | 02:23 pm
Posted by Frank Barrett, The Mail on Sunday Travel Editor Over the past year I have taken half a million photographs. This is a modest exaggeration, but whenever I try to look through my various col...
Bring back Jane McDonald, all is forgiven...Could there be a worse advert for holidays at sea than Fred Olsen's 'The Cruise: A Life at Sea'? 19 Jul 2013 | 03:02 pm
Posted by Frank Barrett, Travel Editor, The Mail on Sunday Cruise companies say that their biggest marketing problem is that people tend to have the wrong idea about a holiday at sea. Surveys indicat...
