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Turkish Yogurt War: Image Rights

Photo Courtesy The BBCThe BBC reported that an elderly Greek discovered that his image was being used to sell Turkish yogurt in Sweden, and considered not only a personal affront, but a breach of his right to keep his image and likeness from being commercially exploited without permission or contractual compensation. Minas Karatzoglou claims that [...]

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Flight Cancelled – Did you Get a Refund?

Our travel agency has had lots of enquiries from people who haven’t booked with us but wanting advice about refunds for flights that have been cancelled due to the Icelandic volcano ash. There seems to be people who have booked with certain travel agencies who have been told that they are not entitled to a refund [...]

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All UK Airports to Re-open at 10.00 PM Tonight.

Lord Adonis the government transport secretary has just announced that all UK airspace will re-open from 10PM on Tuesday evening. It seems that the CAA has re-written the rules about when aircraft can fly in situations relating to volcanic ash. The government is saying that more data has been collected from test flights and they [...]

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Travel Misery to Continue as Volcanic Ash Still a Problem

Our travel agency is getting lots of telephone calls from people stranded abroad who are desperate to get home. The last call we had was from a family stranded in Spain on the Costa del Sol who need to get home as the daughter has important GCSE’s. They are unable to get through on the [...]

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