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Saturday, 07 December 2019

The Independent

• Is it cheaper to buy long-haul flights at the last minute?Plane Talk: The strings attached to a £60 standby flight involved committing upfront by buying a voucher, and then calling up every day until there was room on a flight

Times Online

• Money round-up: Frustration over Thomas Cook travel compensation delays [Subscription]Passengers who took out package holidays and flights with the collapsed travel company Thomas Cook are facing unexpected delays before they get their money back. About 67,000 customers filed claims on October 7, the first day of the refund programme, and 233,000 have made claims since. Customers were told that all valid claims would be paid by yesterday, 60 days after they were made, but only two thirds of the first claims have been paid on time, according to the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). The rest of the claimants have been asked for more information by the CAA.

Mail Online

• Third of Thomas Cook customers who claimed refunds have still not received their money backThe Civil Aviation Authority originally said that all valid Atol-protected claims made on the first day of its refund programme would be paid within 60 days - or by this Friday. But now admits this cannot be met.

Birmingham Mail

• Special cabin crew recruitment day this weekend in Birmingham - here's where to goEmirates is looking for people who want to join the airline - and they must be fit, have a positive attitude and be ready to live in Dubai

EIN News Subscription

• Plane trips in the EU last year soared to 1 BILLION … in EU last year, up 43 per cent on 2010  The data … were to non-EU destinations. The data, released by the EU’s statistics … that Heathrow was Europe’s busiest airport, with 80million passengers. Second busiest was …