Program, Product & Service Updates

Transat’s upcoming Travel Basecamp episodes are taking travellers off the beaten path and will showcase a new way for travellers to journey through Honduras. Through each inspiring video series, Travel Basecamp provides an exciting and exhilarating slate of breathtaking adventures for any curious traveller to a range of destinations around the Caribbean and Central America. Transat […]

Strategies and Movements within the Industry

TUI AG, the German tour operator that merged with TUI Travel last year, announced that the integration of the two companies has started to pay off. The underlying loss before interest, taxes and amortization was 8 million euros in the three months through March, compared with 201.6 million euros a year earlier. Sales rose 9.2% […]

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Tourisme durable

L’aménagement durable dans les petites municipalités

Le concept du développement durable ratisse large et peut décourager des petites municipalités qui sont confrontées, comme les grandes sinon plus, à des défis financiers et humains. Faces à ces multiples enjeux, les petites collectivités doivent choisir leurs axes de travail : certaines d’entre elles favorisent l’aménagement durable. Même si sa vocation première n’est pas d’être […]

Program, Product & Service Updates

Transat will strengthen its presence in Panama with new flights to Playa Blanca. Flights will be operated on Mondays, starting Nov. 2, from Toronto and Montreal. Transat media room American Airlines will start phasing out US Airways’ reservations system this summer and moving bookings to American’s system. At that time, US Airways’ website and airport check-in kiosks […]

Strategies and Movements within the Industry

On April 23, Transat raised almost $33,000 with the second edition of its Twitter auction, selling 20 flights to some of Air Transat’s most popular destinations in Europe, departing from seven Canadian cities. The entire amount was donated to the humanitarian organization SOS Children’s Villages. In response to the major humanitarian crisis in the region, Transat and SOS […]

Program, Product & Service Updates

Sunwing will add direct flights from Thunder Bay to Cancun, Mexico next winter. Sunwing media room Sunwing Vacations will return to Fredericton, New Brunswick next winter and, this time, will operate two direct weekly flights to Varadero and Holguin starting Feb. 9, 2016. Sunwing media room Air Canada is now offering customers travelling from the U.S. […]

IATA posted global passenger traffic results for February. Total revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs) rose 6.2%, which was an improvement on the January year-over-year increase of 4.5%. February capacity (available seat kilometres or ASKs) increased by 5.6%, and load factor rose 0.5 percentage points to 78.5%. North American airlinesexperienced a 3.5% rise in traffic compared to […]

Strategies and Movements within the Industry

Air Transat has won two Mercureawards — for Large Business of the Year and for Sustainable Development — at the Mercuriades Awards Gala, in recognition of its program for green dismantling of end-of-life aircraft. Transat media room CanJet Vacations is in discussions with other carriers as it hopes to offer its summer program in the European […]

Program, Product & Service Updates

Transat has rewarded the winners of the March Confetti sales challenge, which highlighted the performance of the top three Europe product sellers in Canada. Each agent won a prepaid gas card valued at $1,800. Transat media room Air Canada will increase the number of its daily flights from the UK to Canada starting summer 2015. […]

Strategies and Movements within the Industry

Lesley Kane, former Ryanair Head of Sales and Marketing, Europe has been recruited by Canadian leisure airline Air Transat. TravelWeekly.co.uk The federal government has made it mandatory for Canadian airlines to have two flight crew members in the cockpit at all times. The requirement comes after the recent Germanwings tragedy, where the co-pilot locked himself […]