Well it sure does put a ‘new’ twist on the marketing perspective…certainly original and unique, but I do wonder if they’ll get any takers for it!

Many happy returns!:D

Another failure…?

And to make things even worse, it has led to the failure of Seguro Travel, a well-known and respected holiday company based right here in the UK…

According to The Times, there are 2,500 holidaymakers currently abroad and approximately 18,000 customers with forward bookings who are yet to travel.

Below is a copy of the statement that was on the company’s homepage, however, even now the website has been taken down altogether!

Seguro Travel Limited and its subsidiary Seguro Aviation Limited which trade under the style Seguro Holidays and Kent Escapes ceased trading on 10 September 2008.

Customers who have booked to travel by air from 10 September onwards should refer to the Civil Aviation Authority website (http://www.atol.org.uk) where further advice is given.

The directors of the company deeply regret the closure of the business which has been brought about by the failure of Futura Airlines last weekend.
The directors of Seguro have no involvement in the management of Futura Airlines.
The directors apologise to all of our customers.

Seeing as they were the only company to offer passenger flights to/from Kent International Airport (MSE), using the KentEscapes brand…I wonder what effect that this will have on the airport itself?

WHATS 18″ LONG, SILVER AND YOU DONT WANT TO FIND UNDER YOUR DAUGHTERS BED?

GARY GLITTERS BOOTS ::p

Sorry, but I don’t quite get it?:o

Where are you getting the information from that “Manx Airlines” are flying in South Africa?

Well, I was rather intrigued by this myself, so I did a quick google search, and the first result shows that there does appear to be an airline that operates in South Africa using the Manx Airlines name, however, I am not sure its legitimate…

http://www.farecompare.com/flights/Manx_Airlines-JE/airline.html

Firstly it says it offers ‘cheap non-stop airline tickets from Jan Smuts – JNB’…well, ‘Jan Smuts’ was the name of the international airport between 1952 to 1994.

Also, it says it serves Jan Smuts (JNB) to Blackbushe (BBS)…:eek:

I certainly would like to see what market research proved this to be a viable route and with what a/c if it is a non-stop flight!…:p:D

The thing that particularily stood out to me was this:

Did You Know?

Manx Airlines flies over 21,018 seats worldwide per week.
The shortest flight on Manx Airlines is 312 miles from Johannesburg to Durban.
Manx Airlines has 113 flights each week from South Africa.
Manx Airlines has 31 flights each week from Durban, South Africa.

I think someone is having a joke!:D

It does just make me wonder if anyone actually uses this site to try and book anything…:rolleyes:

Some good quality images there Jaime – well done!

Particularly like that first Flybe one, but the first Icelandair one is great too.

Keep up the good work.

Wow! Some great stuff there tenthije. I love all the shots from LCY. Another good location for photography there is if you take about a 10-15min walk down a small pathway underneath the bridge to the left of the airport (you can’t walk over Connaught Bridge, assume this is for safety reasons!), then you can get some great shots of the aircraft parked up at the terminal and take-off shots if they are departing towards the West, or simply you can travel by Docklands Light Rail (DLR) to Royal Albert station, and its about a 2min walk from there!

I wondered why the 146 in the 2nd pic had “BACON” on the side!!!

:rolleyes:

Its was the nickname given to BA CONnect!!!:D:diablo:

Wow Stu, some cracking stuff there…nice to see something different!

That first pic of all those NW a/c is interesting, do you know how many flights do they have to/from AMS and where do they serve? I know their hubs in the USA are MSP/DTW and SEA (I think?), and I assume they are operated as a code-share with KLM too?

Is the last one Madurodam?

Excuse my ignorance, but what is ‘Madurodam’, looks like a model village with a mock-up of AMS?

Either way, I want to visit, any ideas on how to get to it and how much it costs?