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Book airport car park - save extra 5% at Manchester, Luton, Gatwick, Heathrow, Manchester, Birmingham and Edinburgh airports

Total airport car parking savings of up to 45% with discount voucher

BCP are offering 5% discount off their airport parking rates (click here) in addition to up to 40% saving when you pre-book your carpark.

Key features at a glance…..

• Up to 40% cheaper when you book in advance - genuine saving plus another 5% with this discount voucher 
• Guaranteed parking space
• Secure on-line booking
• Quality assured customer support
• Fast, easy and efficient booking process

Airport parking is available at 26 UK airports including Manchester, Luton, Gatwick, Heathrow, Manchester and Edinburgh airports.

The cost of airport parking is high relative to the cost of your flights so don’t waste any more money on airport parking and pre-book your car park now using this 5% discount voucher and you could be saving up to 45% on at gate prices!

This special voucher code is applicable to all Airpark* owned airport car parking sales.

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Fuel surcharge ditched by bmi for all flights from Heathrow

In these tough times, flybmi.com bring you some good news. With effect 1 November 2008, they are stopping fuel surcharges on all their UK and European flights departing or arriving at London Heathrow.

This initiative recognises the current economic situation and the need to provide more affordable and transparent air fares for business and leisure travellers. These new fares are now available through flybmi.com.

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View special offers now. Low fares on many routes worldwide. Book now for competitive fares.

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London to Paris

Take the Eurostar to Paris. It is cheaper than you think. In fact travelling by train from anywhere in the UK to anywhere in Europe by train maybe cheaper and more interesting than flying. Take a look, you have nothing to lose.

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Save money on airport car parks

I did not realise how valuable it is to pre-book your carpark before travelling until last week.

The day before travelling I remembered to book car park at Birmingham airport. I paid £64 for a week in the multistory car park next to the terminal. If I had not pre-booked this would have cost approx £138 or I would have parked further away in the long term car park for a similar price as that paid for pre-booking.

Other options for cheaper airport parking include off-site parking where you take a free shuttle on departure and arrival between the car park and airport. 

Don’t waste money and pre-book your airport car park:

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Cheap solar panels in development

A team of Welsh scientists at Bangor University are planning to copy the manner in which plants take in sunlight, in a bid to create cheaper solar panels.

By mimicking photosynthesis, the intention is to bring solar energy more within the budgets of families across the UK and increase the use of electricity produced by renewable means.

Dr Peter Holliman, from the University’’s School of Chemistry, told icwales.co.uk: "We aim to test the feasibility of extracting the membranes from within the (plant) cell and attaching them to electrodes to create efficient low-cost solar energy harvesters."

He added: "It is already known that such solar cells are capable of generating very small currents from sunlight. Here we are aiming to increase these currents in order to develop a viable commercial technology."

Dr Holliman will spend a year working on the experiment, which is funded by the UK?s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.

Current solar panels cost in the region of £5,000, beyond the capabilities of most families, so their use is normally restricted to businesses.

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Regional airports ”offer Brits greater choice and cheaper fares”

British holidaymakers and business travellers are benefiting from the extensive services being offered by the country’’s regional airports.

That is according to one leading aviation expert, who has explained that the rise of smaller airports outside of the main UK cities has led to consumers having greater choice, with budget airlines rolling out a host of special offers over both the winter and summer months.

Tony Hallwood, commercial and aviation development director at Leeds Bradford International Airport (LBA), explained: "As [regional] airports introduce more destinations and more choice with a wider number of scheduled airlines, there is now less need for people to trawl down to London to connect to flights worldwide.

"There is not a shadow of a doubt that regional airports will become even more popular in future," he added.

The comments come just weeks after the US and the European Union introduced an open skies agreement, which is widely expected to lead to more flights offers and greater value for consumers, particularly with regards to transatlantic services.

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Market competition pushes travel insurance prices down

Growing competition in the travel insurance sector has led to a spate of special offers for consumers, a new study has found.

Research carried out by the US firm Defaqto found that premium levels for the vast majority of travel insurance products are now lower than they were in 2003, even before inflation is taken into account.

Only Brits taking out annual cover for travel to the United States are now facing higher premiums, the study also found.

In spite of this, however, it is believed that around one in seven people still travel overseas without any travel insurance policy in place.

Brian Brown, the author of the report, said: "Competition in the travel insurance market is having a very significant effect on the price of travel cover.

"The availability of a huge number of policies, many of them online, has driven many insurers to lower their premiums."

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Budget airlines announce new summer flight offers

A host of budget airlines have just announced the launch of a number of new routes that will offer UK holidaymakers cheap flights to destinations across Europe.

Last week the national carrier British Airways confirmed that it is to roll-out an expansion of its short-haul network, with a new route from London’’s growing City Airport to Dublin, which will soon be complemented by regular flights to Edinburgh as well as Nice in the south of France.

Now, low-cost rivals Ryanair and easyJet have unveiled their latest travel offers in the run-up to what is expected to be a busy summer holiday season.

The Irish firm will fly from London’’s Stansted Airport to the sunshine destinations of Rimini and Beziers from the start of June.

In addition, easyJet will launch a new Edinburgh to Nice route, as well as a Glasgow to faro service.

Furthermore, it will also start flying from Bristol Airport to Olbia on Sardinia as well as Biarritz and the Croatian city of Split.

David Osborne, easyJet UK manager, noted: "EasyJet has seen a huge increase in flights to summer sun destinations in 2007-2008 from Bristol International Airport, with the arrival of Ibiza, Bordeaux, Milan, Lisbon, Warsaw and Funchal last year. The new routes…reinforce our position as the UK’’s largest airline."

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Abbey announces new ”Zero” credit card offer

Abbey has announced the launch of its newest credit card, which offers consumers a host of benefits with no additional fees.

Called the ”Zero card”, the new product has been launched as the first credit card on the UK market to offer no balance transfer fees and no cash advance fee, in addition to not charging extra for foreign exchanges.

Given that the usual foreign exchange rate fee on an Abbey card is 2.75 per cent, this latest offer represents the ideal choice for Brits looking to use their plastic while abroad, while it also comes with a six-month interest free period on balance transfers and purchases.

Roger Lovering, managing director of Abbey Credit Cards, commented: "We promised the market that we would continue to innovate and that is exactly what we”ve done. The Abbey Zero card is the first ever card to eliminate all these fees at once.

"With no balance transfer fee and six months interest free, it’’s the perfect card to transfer a debt you want to pay off quickly and has clear advantages for the summer too. No foreign exchange fee makes holiday spending less expensive and Zero also has no cash advance fee for those rare times you might need cash in an emergency."

The launch comes as personal advisors advise consumers to shop around and compare credit cards as lenders reign in their best offers as they try and protect themselves from the effects of the credit crunch.

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Men outpace women as online shopping enthusiasts

British men are now spending more time shopping over the internet than their female counterparts, it has been revealed.

Research carried out by the management consultancy firm Accenture found that men have grown to embrace online shopping, with 56 per cent now preferring to buy a variety of goods this way rather than on the high street.

This is largely thanks to online retailers now targeting this part of the market, with a number of new websites launched allowing quick and easy access to all the latest fashion offers.

"Shopping for fashion online is a new experience for many men – they have to be educated to convert to it and, unlike women, the media hasn”t been busy bombarding them with ”the new look” on a weekly basis," Ali Khan, founder of menalamode.com, explained to the Independent.

"Lots of retailers have been reluctant to cater online to the male fashion customer when women have been so ready to buy online. But it’’s changing."

The findings come soon after a separate study by market researchers Nielsen found that 36 per cent of Britons with access to the internet have purchased clothes or accessories online in at least one occasion during the final quarter of 2007, more than double the number who did so in the same period of the previous year.

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bmibaby to offer Cardiff to Barcelona cheap flights

Low-cost airline bmibaby has announced that it is to offer cheap flights from Cardiff Airport to the Spanish city of Barcelona.

Starting on May 24th, the budget carrier will operate the services on Tuesdays and Saturdays, while an additional Wednesday flight will be introduced from June so as to meet the increased summer demand.

One-way tickets between the two cities start at £24.99, inclusive of all taxes and charges, though the airline has reminded passengers that no refunds can be made once a flight has been booked.

Commenting on its latest route, bmibaby stated: "For food, fiesta, fashion and fun - book your sizzling summer holiday to Barcelona today. Hurry! Seats are selling faster than you can say ”where is my suitcase?”."

News of this new service comes just days after the low-cost carrier easyJet released details of its latest offers.

For travel taken between April 16th and May 21st, fares on dozens of its routes from the UK to Europe will start at just £19.99, again inclusive of all additional charges.

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Brits looking for holiday offers despite gloomy economic reports

Holiday bookings made through both online companies and high street travel agents have increased by 40 per cent over the first three months of 2008 alone, new figures show.

Coming as growing numbers of reports point to a general economic slowdown, industry observers have stated that the travel sector appears to be rising above the financial turbulence, largely as Brits make getting away their number one priority for the year.

According to Chris Nourse, general manager of Multicom, the company behind these latest statistics, people are increasingly seeing holidays as essentials rather than luxuries and so are still keen to shop around and take advantage of the deals on offer.

"Years ago, holidays abroad were seen as a luxury for the few who could afford them," he said.

"Now it seems they are being seen as more and more essential - even if people have less money in their pockets after paying bills."

Just last month, the World Travel and Tourism Council predicted that the global tourism industry will grow at a rate of 4.4 per cent a year over for the next decade.

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Easyjet ticket sale

Easyjet are offering up to 20% off flights from the UK to the following destinations:

• Budapest
• Bucharest
• Gdansk
• Krakow
• Ljubljana
• Prague
• Sofia
• Tallinn
• Warsaw

This offer is available on every seat, every day, on the above routes for travel from the 5th May - 2nd July 2008. So you can even grab a flight bargain in the May bank holiday and half term school holidays .

This offer ends midnight Tuesday 1st April 2008.

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Virgin atlantic offers

Book a return flight to New York Upper Class from £1,494 with Virgin Atlantic’s spring sale, by 10pm 31st March 2008. Alternatively take advantage of their summer sale and fly to San Francisco return for just £1,606. Other offers include travelling to the Caribbean from just £390 Economy class or from £730 Premium Economy.

Founded twenty-three years ago, Virgin Atlantic Airways has become Britain’s second largest airline serving the world’s major cities including Boston, Hong Kong, Mumbai, New York, Sydney and Tokyo.

On its long haul routes Virgin Atlantic operates a three class service: Upper Class, Premium Economy and Economy.

Premium Economy is aimed at the cost conscious business traveller, offering

• comfortable & spacious seating
• priority boarding
• pre-departure drink
• laptop power
• state-of-the-art inflight entertainment
• amenity kit for every traveller’s essential needs
• onboard meal with a choice of three entrees
• free drinks during flight
• express Economy baggage reclaim
• membership of Virgin flying club

Economy class is aimed at giving excellent value for money, offering

• space saving seats
• state-of-the-art inflight entertainment
• onboard meal with a choice of three entrees
• free drinks during flight
• special features for children

Whereas Virgin’s Upper Class provides the passenger with

• complimentary airport transfers are available to and from most airports of arrival and departure; UK options include chauffeur driven Volvo or Virgin LimoBike in the UK and first class Gatwick Express travel. 
• drive-Thru Check In is a unique Upper Class complimentary service at London Heathrow, London Gatwick and Johannesburg. 
• access to Clubhouse lounges at selected airports featuring a health and beauty salon offering beauty treatments and hairdressing. In addition the flagship Heathrow Clubhouse has a poolside lounge, Multiscreen, observation deck, sky lounge, library, music room, playground/video games room, study, bar, brasserie/deli
• dedicated Upper Class check-in and priority boarding 
• a luxury leather armchair that flips into a flat bed
• flexible menus and timing to suit you during your flight
• Onboard private bar area

Take a look at their website for these offers plus others, such as Delhi, Mauritius, Nairobi and Sydney.

 

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Cheap flights offer from bmibaby

Flying from Birmingham? Then just pay taxes and charges on flights to Amsterdam, Barcelona, Belfast Intl, Bordeaux, Cork, Ireland West Knock, Jersey, Lisbon, Marseille Provence, Milan (BGY) and Murcia Flying from East Midlands? Then just pay taxes and charges on flights to Alicante, Belfast Intl and Gdansk. Flying from

Cardiff? Then just pay taxes and charges on flights to Amsterdam, Belfast Intl, Gdansk and Jersey. Flying from Manchester? Then just pay taxes and charges on flights to Belfast Intl, Cork and Ireland West Knock.The big seat giveaway ends midnight Tuesday 26th February 08. Valid for travel on selected destinations from 7th April until 18th May 08. You don’t want to miss out.

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Spain and France still popular among UK holidaymakers

Despite travellers being offered a host of new destinations as a result of the low-cost flights revolution, the traditional favourites of Spain and France are as popular as ever among British holidaymakers, it has been revealed.

According to the website Holidays-Direct.co.uk, Spain remains the firm favourite for Brits looking to get away, due largely to the large number of great deals on offer all year round, though Greece, France and Lanzerote are all highly popular.

Among those looking for a city break, Barcelona is currently the number one destination, closely followed by Rome, Dublin and Venice.

Jon Pearce from the website said: "We all know that Brits love holidays in Spain, they have been a favourite for years, as have holidays in Greece. There are plenty of cheap holidays available in both destinations.

"The other top ten holiday destinations are the Spanish islands (the Canaries and Balearics) as well as the Caribbean, Tunisia and Sharm el Sheikh."

However, statistics also show that, due partly to the more competitive deals on offer, British travellers are becoming increasingly adventurous, with Eastern Europe and even further afield now popular among holidaymakers.

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Jet2 announces latest ski holiday flights offer

The low-cost airline Jet2.com has announced that it is still offering flights to some of Europe’s finest ski resorts for as little as £9.99 one-way.

With a number of resorts reporting high snowfall levels this winter, the budget carrier has rolled out its cheap deals across most of its routes from the UK to the continent.

From Leeds Bradford Airport, winter sports enthusiasts can fly to Geneva from £9.99 as well as to Chambery and Salzburg from £19.99.

This higher fare also applies to flights from Manchester and Edinburgh to the French Alpine gateway of Chambery and also from Manchester to the Swiss city of Geneva.

The offer also applies to Jet2’s service between Newcastle and Bergen in Norway, though none of these prices include fuel surcharges and variable card payment fees.

At the same time, low-cost rival Ryanair is also in the middle of promoting its latest offer, with flights across Europe from as little as £3, inclusive of all taxes and charges.

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