Wednesday 22 April 2009
In Flight Fat Tax..
We continue to be bowled over by Ryanair's brilliant skill for self promotion. Their latest headline grabbing offering is how they are considering charging a 'fat tax' after more than 30,000 passengers voted in favour of charging excess weight fees for very large passengers.
Their online poll, which is a pretty neat way of gathering customers email addresses, asked the public for cost reducing ideas. Even now, it's hard to write this blog as it is so blatenly a PR stunt. But what ever..
It seems nearly 30% of the public polled were in favour of excess fees for overweight passengers with the charge taking one of the following formats:
~Charge per kg over 130kg/20 stone (male) and 100kg/15 stone (females)
~Charge per inch for every waist inch over 45 inch (male) and 40 inch (female)
~Charge for every point in excess of 40 points on the Body Mass Index (+30 points is obese)
~Charge for a second seat if passengers’ waist touches both armrests simultaneously.
On a personal note, as one that has regularly crammed the entire contents of a suitcase into a small carry on to avoid the usual commotion at check in, one should consider if in fact, there is a grain of truth here. Why should we have weight restrictions on our bags when the passenger next to us is carrying the equivalent of two carry-ons around their stomach?
Wednesday 8 April 2009
Hull FC vs Travel Trade?
Farewell and congratulations to Nick Cust who is planning to step down from the board of HolidayBreak plc at the end of the year.
Nick joined the main board in 1997, having previously served as an associate director and before that he was joint MD of Superbreaks. Nick was awarded an OBE in the 2009 New Year’s Honours List in recognition of his services to tourism.
Our own favourite story about Nick dates back to a Travel Agent conference we both attended in the rather grand setting of Monte Carlo.
During one of the conference afternoons, at a coffee break in one of the sessions, we struck up a conversation with Nick about the Rugby League Challenge Cup Final (as it then was) to be played at Wembley that afternoon. As it happened, for some reason, we had been upgraded to a room in the Grand Hotel on the square next to the Casino and one of the, rather nice, features was satelite TV.
Nick quickly demonstrated his lightening decision making facilities. Abandoning the rest of conference we quickly de-camped to our room where, complete with bottles of over-priced 1664, we spun-out the rest of the afternoon watching Hull FC vs Wakefield.
Those were the days.
Nick joined the main board in 1997, having previously served as an associate director and before that he was joint MD of Superbreaks. Nick was awarded an OBE in the 2009 New Year’s Honours List in recognition of his services to tourism.
Our own favourite story about Nick dates back to a Travel Agent conference we both attended in the rather grand setting of Monte Carlo.
During one of the conference afternoons, at a coffee break in one of the sessions, we struck up a conversation with Nick about the Rugby League Challenge Cup Final (as it then was) to be played at Wembley that afternoon. As it happened, for some reason, we had been upgraded to a room in the Grand Hotel on the square next to the Casino and one of the, rather nice, features was satelite TV.
Nick quickly demonstrated his lightening decision making facilities. Abandoning the rest of conference we quickly de-camped to our room where, complete with bottles of over-priced 1664, we spun-out the rest of the afternoon watching Hull FC vs Wakefield.
Those were the days.
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