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New study shows we’re hopeless at packing and it’s not just our backs breaking under the extra weight

As the schools break up this week, Brits will turn their thoughts to summer holidays, and start panicking on what on earth should be packed. As well as wanting to look good on holiday, many of us load ourselves up in preparation for any eventuality. A new study released today shows a quarter of us spend between two and three days packing our bags for our holiday, but once there only 16% actually use and wear everything they’ve packed.  In fact, over a third of those asked, do not use 25% of stuff taken away*. Read more »

Following the collapse of tour operator Goldtrail last night, Thomson and First Choice shops are offering advice to those customers who are now without a holiday. Goldtrail customers who have booked a holiday but are yet to travel, will be able to claim a refund from the CAA and book an alternative holiday. Read more »

• - Affordable long haul holidays for everyone
• - Exciting new far flung holiday destinations not available before
• - Broadband access and HD entertainment
• - More legroom in long-haul economy than any other European leisure airline
• - Bar area with unlimited fresh fruit smoothies and mineral water onboard

TUI Travel PLC and Thomson Airways has today announced it will transform long haul travel for its customers as the UK launch airline for the revolutionary Boeing 787 Dreamliner which it will take delivery of in January 2012. Read more »

Hailed as an epoch in aviation history and the greatest advance in air travel for passengers since the development of Concorde in the early 1970s, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner arrived in the UK for the first time today to be met by Chris Browne, Managing Director of Thomson Airways. The aircraft’s arrival at the Farnborough Air Show also marks its first maiden voyage outside the USA. Read more »

More than 300,000 holidaymakers are planning to head to the sun this weekend in the biggest getaway of the year according to Thomson Airways, as schools break up and families begin their summer holidays.  At the same time, the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner is due to land for the first time on UK soil on Sunday 18^th July at the Farnborough air show. Thomson Airways will be the first UK airline to fly this revolutionary new aircraft which it believes will transform air travel. Read more »

Thomson Airways, the first UK airline to fly the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, is launching an integrated brand campaign this month as the Dreamliner arrives in the UK for the first time at the Farnborough International Air Show (18-25 July). Read more »

So, that’s it.  England have bowed out of the World Cup (again).  We at Thomson and First Choice recognise that some footy fans (and their families…) will now want to literally get away from it all. Read more »

Thomson Airways reunites abandoned dog with holidaymaker

When Beverly Peascod, from Carlisle, went on a summer holiday last year, she never dreamed of gaining a new addition to her family in the form of stray dog Sylvie. Now, almost a year later, Bev and Sylvie will be reunited thanks to Thomson Airways as Sylvie is now out of quarantine and allowed into the UK. Read more »