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Thomas Cook boss insists customers' holidays are safe amid share price plunge (5/20/2019)
Exclusive: 'It's a tough life for me, but for our customers it's paradise,' says the travel firm's chief executive, Peter Fankhauser
Why you should eat dinner 100ft above London (5/20/2019)
Join a different kind of mile-high club
Italian airport strike to ground hundreds of flights on Tuesday (5/20/2019)
Chaos continues for airline passengers in Europe
Seven extra countries get access to UK ePassport gates (5/20/2019)
The move is to speed up processing for 'low risk' nations
Ryanair profits fall by almost 30 per cent (5/20/2019)
Europe's biggest budget airline has 'utmost confidence' in Boeing 737 Max
Train delays cause British rail passengers to lose four million hours in just one year (5/20/2019)
Eighty trains a day were 'significantly delayed' last year
Italian island offers to refund hotel stays if it rains (5/20/2019)
But watch out for the small print...
Manchester airport delays: Airlines struggle to recover after fuel failure (5/20/2019)
'We expect there will be a small number of delays and cancellations as a result of the issues experienced yesterday,' says the airport