Join In The Festivities in Majorca with Jet2holidays.com
If you’re seeking a little early autumn fun, why not visit the beautiful Balearic island of Majorca and join in the Fiesta of Santa Catalina Tomas, which is celebrated annually on the third Saturday in October with a spectacular street party.
The festival takes place to honour Santa Catalina Tomas who is not a Saint from the Bible, but an everyday person who was later blessed by Pope Pius VI in 1792 due to her prominent moral teachings of the children of the island.
Festivities include lavish street parades, live music and dancing, with processions winding their way through the streets and towns all day on the 17th October.
The island, which is the largest of the Balearics, not only offers this charismatic celebration but also sandy beaches, beautiful scenery and an array of cultural and historical sites to visit including Palma’s Gothic Cathedral, the Palau de l’Almudaina – a royal palace built shortly after the Arab conquest and Museu d’Art Espanyol Contemporani, a museum housing the work of famous twentieth century Spanish artists including Picasso, Dalí, Miró, Juan Gris and Antoni Tápies.
Budget airline cancels a reader’s flight, offers her an alternative, and then charges £25 for switchingAirlines already charge us extra to fly with our luggage, sit with our family and check in via a human being. Now, it would appear, easyJet has hit on a cunning new way to wrest cash from its customers.
Roxanne Misir booked a cheap flight to Belfast to visit her parents over Christmas. Four months later she received a convoluted email from the airline announcing that her flight had been cancelled, and that she had been rebooked on to an alternative flight that would arrive later in the evening. A helpfully supplied weblink asked if this was a convenient alternative.
Misir, worried about her parents braving icy roads late at night in order to retrieve her from the airport, declared that it wasn’t and was offered either a credit note or a free alternative flight. She chose the latter, but easyJet’s definition of “free” was unusual. Once Misir had secured her new ticket she was charged a £25 flight change fee plus a charge for using her credit card.
“I emailed easyJet and got an automated response which said that due to its enhanced service it would not respond to emails,” she says. “Instead I was directed to a webmail form, but I have not had a response. EasyJet is notorious for not responding to complaints for months, if at all, and I cannot afford to ring its premium rate phone line.”
Happily, the Guardian has a nice cheap number for easyJet’s press office, which explains that at the time Misir rebooked the airline hadn’t got round to initiating its “free transfer facility” for cancellation victims, and so she and doubtless many other passengers were charged. It is unclear whether non-Guardian readers among them will get an automatic refund, but Misir will receive her £25 back, but not sadly her credit card fee, and she may yet reach Belfast in time for Christmas.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2009/dec/11/easyjet-free-flight-transfer
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