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Summer Advance Bookings: Advance stena line ferry bookings for new customers in drive to destinations are up for the summer during volcano. Stranded air passengers whose flights have been cancelled by the Civil Aviation Authority, started to travel by ferry in April, due to ash cloud worsening. During that period, Stena Line’s Irish sea routes carried over 60,000 extra passengers in April, with 30,000 of those travelling on the Belfast to Stranraer route. Route director, Paul Grant said, “Custom quadrupled at the height of the disruption and that advance bookings indicated some of those new passengers were coming back.” Positive Feedback:
Travellers looking for ticket bookings with any operators are ahead of last year by around 15%. And if it goes up by that amount in July and August, that’s an extra 60,000 on top of one million passengers. Information For Ferry Travel: Travellers have to look for benefits while travelling via ferries. There are many travel comfort facilities to travel via ferries in the entire European regions. Check ferry availability and beneficial options including cheap ferry tickets for your convenient routes - Dover to Dunkirk and Harwich to Hook of Holland etc. with many operators including Norfolkline, Stena Line, P&O ferries and Brittany ferries etc. |
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He further said, “Passengers were impressed by the facilities on Stena Line’s vessels and, with airlines like Ryanair imposing charges of around £15 on baggage, that they were happy with the absence of baggage charges.” Also, the timing of its business boost had been good, with the company spending millions of pounds on updating its vessels and on moving its Scottish terminal from Stranraer to Loch Ryan around 10 miles away.
