House byline
Travel correspondent
Yasmin Ali is a house byline for InfoHandle’s Travel desk.
Every station pair has its own price, the through ticket is a separate product, and ticket sellers are steered to quote the expensive journey unless you ask for the cheaper combination.
A fault in National Air Traffic Services’ flight-plan processing system forced more than 1,000 UK cancellations on Tuesday, stranding passengers at Heathrow, Manchester and Edinburgh while Amsterdam’s Schiphol scrapped a majority of British routes.
Eurostar will add St Pancras platform and border-support staff for autumn departures after passenger complaints about summer queue times at French exit controls, while UK authorities stress EES readiness remains a separate timetable.
A connectivity failure at National Air Traffic Services’ Prestwick centre delayed or canceled dozens of flights Monday, the second major outage in two weeks and a fresh blow to airline confidence after September’s Swanwick software defect.
Gatwick South Terminal is trialling one-tag reusable cup deposits tied to boarding passes for EasyJet quick-turn stands, aiming to cut single-use waste without slowing cabin cleaning between waves.
Getlink opened extra Folkestone–Calais freight shuttles for chilled produce ahead of the autumn import peak, pricing dedicated slots for palletised salad and berry loads that cannot sit in Dover queue delays.
Eurostar services from St Pancras to Paris sold out on key September weekends as fashion-week travellers stacked onto leisure bookings already tightened by tunnel maintenance windows.