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Simon Calder is the Independent’s travel correspondent, the UK’s leading travel journalist, who will be bringing you a daily podcast bulletin on all things travel, the very latest on the tra...
Travel Desk Tuesday, and I am talking to Senior Travel Writer Natalie Wilson about two fresh concepts in the longhaul aviation world: Emirat...
It is an extremely busy weekend on the travel front, and I am rounding up the headline. There are alarming reports of a small expedition shi...
Nine weeks ago, before the US-Israeli attack on Iran and subsequent reprisals, the intercontinental travel world looked very different. I’ve...
We have just launched our biggest ever network from the UK" – so says Yvonne Moynihan, Managing Director of Wizz Air UK. "Airlines are well...
Yesterday I talked to global travel editor Annabel Grossman about her first trip to Poland – a country I have been visiting for decades. Our...
I have been travelling to Poland since before you were born (specifically 1985) and, every time I go there, the nation becomes more appealin...
Over the past few days, there has been controversy in the frequent-flyer community about the apparent extension of Silver and Gold status by...
All week you may have been reading headlines about flight cancellations and soaring airfares. Well, to round off the week, I have been talki...
On St George's Day, there's no need to trim your travel sails. Despite challenging headlines travel remains in good health. My guest today,...
Six months ago, Hawaiian Airlines became part of the Alaska Air Group, with the understanding that its identity as the carrier to, from and...
Today I'm talking about the deep south of the world, with conservation biologist Dr Louise Blight – whose book of that title is published to...
It is more than 40 years since BA last connected its main base, London Heathrow, with the Channel Island of Guernsey. I was on board the fir...
Paul Goldstein, wildlife photographer and expedition leader, is just back from Baffin Island in Canada – where the temperature, with wind ch...
Richard Slater, Founder and Managing Director of Henbury Travel of Macclesfield,, tells me that traveller confidence took a knock when the U...
Today's podcast is rather different from usual. For the first time, I am talking about driving tests but not any driving test. This one invo...
Eighteen years ago, Kosovo declared independence from Serbia after years of turmoil following the break-up of Yugoslavia. Serbia still regar...
In 2023 I covered the launch of the British Airways Speedbird Pilot Academy: recruiting young people to be the pilots of tomorrow. I am deli...
From today, the EU’s “entry-exit system” is expected to be running at all Schengen area frontiers – bringing to an end the stamping of passp...
Could you be tempted by the prospect of an exclusive 44-seat aircraft? All-business-class carrier Beond is set to take passengers in some lu...
My guest today is Charlene McCrossan of Martin McCrossan City Tours – which has been introducing tourists to this corner of the far northwes...
Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, is currently enjoying over 14 hours of daylight, a figure that is climbing swiftly towards midsummer. But ho...
You will probably have heard of the shocking case of a woman who was sexually assaulted in a Travelodge by an attacker who was handed a key...
To round off the week, I'm talking to travel expert Rob Staines about queer travel around the world. He and his partner have just returned f...
That might look an odd question. In the past there have been links from these airports to London Heathrow, which were ditched because the sl...
The much-delayed digital borders scheme for the Schengen area is supposed to be up and running in full from 10 April – but Julia Lo Bue-Said...
Talking with my excellent colleague, senior travel writer Natalie, about a wide range of travel stories: the shocking business of hotel secu...
The 2,700 mile-long trail around the shore of England is the longest managed coastal walking route in the world. It gives unprecedented acce...
Just when you thought London Gatwick couldn’t get any more competitive, Britain's biggest holiday company has launched at scale from the Sus...
That's the surprising view of an eminent commentator on travel, tourism and geopolitics: the formidable all-rounder, Ash Bhardwaj, who has s...
Govia Thameslink Railway, which runs Gatwick Express, Southern, Great Northern as well as Thameslink – has brought out a new safety video wh...
We talk about the effects of the Iran conflict on travel in the immediate and more distant future. Plus: how will it affect travellers' view...
Michael O'Leary, chief executive of Ryanair and Kenton Jarvis, CEO of easyJet tell me how the crisis has affected their airlines, while Will...
I'm talking to Bernard Donoghue OBE, director of the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions. Today he has revealed the stars of the visi...
On a typical holiday plane with 160 passengers, one piece of checked baggage will go missing. That’s the shocking statistic from Sita, the I...
I am reporting from Abu Dhabi airport, where I have been transferring between Etihad flights. Even though the Foreign Office is warning agai...
Today I'm reporting from London Heathrow Terminal 4. This is the main Middle Eastern hub at the UK's busiest airport. But with so many of it...
Today I'm reporting from on board an express train on the Indonesian island of Java. It's a relaxing and fun way to get around this fascinat...
In the second half of our focus on the lens, this top cinematographer reveals the mistakes that people most often make when shooting video....
In the first of a two part series, top cinematographer and photographer Douglas Bolton tells me how to take better stills – even if you are...
“People will think, maybe I’ll fly Singapore Airlines next time.” So says Lonely Planet co-founder Tony Wheeler, in the last episode of a tr...
The attack on Iran that began on 28 February closed the nation’s airspace, as well as that of neighbouring Iraq. But within hours, the whole...
Perspective is important in travel. There is one person who can put the current chaos arising from the US Israeli attack against Iran into c...
I am in Broken Hill, New South Wales: the Silver City. Besides being a classic Australian mining town, it has been the location for some cul...
I have been talking to stranded travellers in Sydney – probably the location with the highest number of people keen to get to the UK, but sc...
My guest today is Nicholas Wood, founder and director of Political Tours: friend of the podcast, to whom I talked to last May. Since then a...
Travel desk Tuesday – and today's excellent colleague just back from a big trip is Global Travel Editor Annabel Grossman. She has returned f...
Just before I boarded a flight to China, I set out the scale of the problem caused by the closure of the three biggest Middle East air hubs...
Each year, heritage venues and attractions funded by the National Lottery offer special deals for anyone who can demonstrate they have playe...
That's the message from Thomas Woldbye, chief executive of Europe's busiest airport, who is keen to build a third runway and opening it to f...
For many British travellers who plan to travel to Ireland, or who happen to be dual nationals, red tape has become a lot more complicated fr...