Travel with Katie Butler:
It is back-to-back holidays for our staff at Total Travel, as last week, we welcomed back our assistant manager Leanne – just as we were saying ‘bon voyage’ to Kath, who is sailing to the Norwegian Fjords on a one week cruise.
Katie Butler, Total Travel, writes: We are almost there, yes – the end of the school holidays are almost upon us, and we are sure that parents and grandparents alike will be ready to take a huge sigh of relief.
We have all shared the holidays at Total Travel but it does mean for the whole of the six/seven weeks we have worked with a staff member down.
Ordinarily, we see the shop quieten down a little bit in this period, and so it counteracts with being short-staffed.
However, as previously mentioned, it once again has been another phenomenal year so far for the industry.
On the back of a year we thought we could not top – it is certainly proving - so far –to be another cracker!
With so many of you travelling overseas over the summer holidays, it is no surprise that our airports have experienced record passenger numbers.
Manchester Airport recorded its busiest July on record with 3.2m passengers, up 6.2 per cent on last July.
A whopping eight million travellers passed through Heathrow Airport in July, securing Heathrow’s position as the busiest airport in Europe, for the first half of the year.
Leanne has just returned from Turkey and has had an amazing time.
Here is what she had to say:
“We flew from Manchester with easyJet, who I have not flown with for many years.