It has been announced this week that Kiss Flights, the controversial charter flight-only operator which seemly rose from the ashes of the XL collapse, has been sold - before it has even operated a single flight. Founded in the later part of 2008, Kiss pitched themselves into the hole in the market that XL Airways left behind in September 2008. With a very identical but much reduced route plan, it was hoped that Kiss would help agents sell destinations that XL serviced before its demise.
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News, Travel
So as there isn’t long until the seasons gets started and we are seeing a trickle of releases regarding team news and who everyone is driving for I though I would have post I could update as news becomes available. If I get anything wrong please shout.
I have written this based on information on BTCC.net & Crash.net
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BTCC
As it appears I am on the brink of the dreaded Man Flu, I thought I would help my fellow sufferers spread the word about Man Flu. This crippling disease that regularly spreads through the male population of the country, has been claimed to be ‘the closest thing to death without actually dying’. However others say that to claim a common cold to be Man Flu is an exaggeration on the part of the man – of course this was probably written by a woman.
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Personal
It has been reported in the news today that a six year old boy in Virginia, USA (only in the states) was so desperate to get to school, that having missed the school bus, he decided to take his fathers car and drive himself there instead, apparently he didn’t want to miss PE and breakfast. His mother was sound asleep in bed.
The youngster managed to drive 6 miles (10km) before finally wrapping the Ford Taurus around a lamppost. He lost control of the car whilst weaving though rush hour traffic and over taking slower vehicles. When questioned by the police, he told them that he had learned to drive using video games.
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News
When I first started out in travel I worked in various call centres, selling on a commission only basis. i.e. No salary, so if you didn’t sell anything you didn’t earn anything. Fortunately I had a knack for selling so I was able to make decent money.
Now when you spend all day answering the phone you quickly get to know what a customer’s standard answer or question is going to be and if they are ‘playing the game’, which is ringing around and trying to get you to undercut the last guy in order to save themselves a few quid. This ‘game’ wasn’t something I got into as they were generally wasting my time, after all, usually they would do is ring the next number in their list and get a competitor to undercut you. As all travel agents were selling from the same system we all had pretty much the same base price.
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Travel
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