We helped our client win over £4,500 compensation after they were crashed into and injured while skiing in France.

The Air Transport Rating Agency have published their list of the top ten safest airlines in the world today. Complied through rigerous assesment including safety record, average age of the fleet of aircraft and pilot training, the list is considered the truest independent assessment of airline safety.

The failure of three holiday companies in the same week has left hundreds of holidaymakers eligible to claim compensation for a cancelled holiday. Tour operators FT Tours and Pinnacle Travel, a travel provider for the education sector, along with sports-package provider, Pumpkin Tours, all collapsed within a day of each other.

We have recently been approached by a group of 80 holidaymakers from around the world who were brought together by a dire holiday experience. Travellers from Australia, USA and Dubai, were so disappointed by their (supposed) organised trip to Europe that they have asked us to help.

The holidaymakers booked with a well respected Coach Tour company to show them the highlights of Europe over a 12 day period. The reports we have suggest that it was the European holiday from Hell. They were promised "value for money and a high standard of service", but they got nothing of the sort.

Spanish authorities are blaming the recent spate of injuries and deaths among young tourists on a dangerous game sweeping the internet. The popularity of “balconing”, leaping from balcony to balcony or into swimming pools, has led to a number of daredevil stunts going disastrously wrong with fatal consequences.

Tragic news from Jamaica after three British holiday makers were killed in a car crash in Kingston.

The family were travelling in a minibus on the way to Montego Bay when they were hit by a pick-up truck.

Kathleen Rawlinson died at the scene while Gary Bamford and Mr Bamford's daughter, Caisie Muller were pronounced dead on arrival at Falmouth hospital. Also fatally injured was a close family friend from Canada who had joined them on holiday.

A fourth family member is currently in serious but stable condition in hospital, while two others escaped with minor injuries.

The accident occurred when the minibus, being driven by Mr Bamford, was involved in a head-on collision with a local pick-up truck between Kingston and Montego Bay.

Added to the tragedy was the fact the Mrs Rawlinson was wheelchair bound having been involved in another holiday car accident in Spain years ago.

Thomas Cook chief executive Manny Fontenla-Novoa will continue to reassure the markets about the future of the group this week, amid reports the company is considering pulling out of long-haul package tour operating.

In recent weeks, a profit warning has sent shares in the FTSE 250 company tumbling. At the start of 2011 shares were listed at in excess of £2.00, but since then they have slid back much closer to 70p. The only positive news surrounding Thomas Cook at present seems to be the potential merger between them and Co-op travel, although the Competition Commission has now delayed a final decision on that until 11 October 2011.

Ryanair and other airlines are defying the Office of Fair Trading's recommendations to stop charging extoritionate debit card booking fees.

The fees levied by banks on debit card transactions are around 20p. Airlines and other firms such as ferry companies are applying a surcharge of up to £8.00 when tickets are purchased. Ryanair are at the fore of the refusal to change this practice stating that the charge covers website administration. This in turn has led other companies to state that they are not willing to waive their fees until there is, as EasyJet says, "a level playing field".

Only one airline, Monarch, has ceased charging debit card fees. They did this at the beginning of June 2011 and say it took 48 hours for the change to be implemented.

The Office of Fair Trading have stated that credit card charges can continue but that they should be transparent from the beginning of a transaction. They have recommended that only the cost of the transaction be levied on debit card payments. They believe that consumers are unable to carry out price comparisons as the surcharges applied are of differing rates depending on the airline carrier. These charges are not clear until one is almost finished the booking process.

Following their 90 day investigation the Office of Fair Trading have now passed their findings to the Treasury. They Treasury now have 90 days to decide whether they wish to adopt the Office of Fair Trading's findings.

At least 44 people were killed and eight injured when a passenger plane broke up and caught fire on coming into land in fog in north-western Russia, late on Monday evening. The plane which had 52 people onboard crashed near a road about 1 km  from the runway at Besovets airport.

The accident is one of at least 5 fatal air accidents since February this year. Accidents in Indonesia and Congo have claimed the lives of at least 45 others and according to reports, many of the accidents in recent times are related to problems with landing.

Ryanair have announced that they will only deal directly with passengers when considering compensation claims for denied boarding. Passengers who have been denied boarding through no fault of their own, often due to overbooking have been told by Ryanair that they will no longer correspond with any third party about their claim.