French air-traffic controllers strike Q&A: Here is what you need to know about the latest industrial action

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More problems for travellers are in store from French air-traffic controllers on Thursday and Friday. The main controllers’ union, the SNCTA, is angry about everything from the retirement age of controllers born between 1959 and 1964 to what it calls the “gradual deterioration of conditions of air traffic controllers.” It has announced a 48 hour strike beginning at dawn on 2 July. Here is what it could mean.

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No need to get an Indian visa for a four-hour stopover

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Q. My daughter is travelling to Thailand with a change of planes in India (four hours' wait in transit). Will she need a visa for this short time? She does not intend to leave the airport. Marie Duncan

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Rail links between airports and city centres: There is room for improvement

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The world is getting more competitive about ground-to-air liaisons and London's are not the very best. What would a good service provide?

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Two massacres in three months… so why does the Foreign Office insist Tunisia is no more dangerous than Spain or the Dordogne?

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For several hundred thousand British people who have booked holidays in Tunisia this year, the wording of the Foreign Office travel advice in response to Friday’s massacre on the beach was critical. Had the government warned against travel to the country, they would have been able to claim refunds or switch destination without penalty. As it is, most of them face heavy cancellation fees if they decide not to go.

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Greece travel advice Q&A: Tourists urged to bring cash not cards on holiday

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The Foreign Office has advised British tourists travelling to Greece to avoid relying on cards and that cash will be the best form of currency as the country enters a week of political and economic uncertainty.

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Land and Sea: Execs Say Agents Needed More than Ever

Cruise and land executives told travel agents at the recent Travel MarketPlace in Toronto that they need them more than ever given the changing travel landscape with its more specialized and unique products.

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Gare du Nord: A new dawn for Paris's violent, ramshackle gateway to Britain

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Just before you struggle on to the underground platforms of the busiest railway station in Europe, there is a large sign which says: “Au revoir Gare du Nord.”

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