But John McLean, who built Darlington-based Late Escapes into a £30m business with 180 staff and sol

But John McLean, who built Darlington-based Late Escapes into a £30m business with 180 staff and sold it to Airtours for £6.2m in 1994, is convinced it is the timing, not the concept, of his new Online Travel Agent Group that is wrong.
McLean aimed to recruit 100 call centre staff at the Darlington headquarters of the firm but has now had to use his industry contacts to find alternative employment cost of roundtrip airline tickets to italy for the four workers he had already taken on.
He had planned to create a national, then a global brand with the group, which included MyWayTravel.com, cost of roundtrip airline tickets to italy MyWayCruise.com and BookingLate.com sites and had shrugged off concerns about the effects of the economy.
It is symptomatic of the problems in the travel industry across the board. Yesterday, sector giant Thomas Cook said it was cutting its capacity for the summer season and confirmed the crisis in North Africa will cost it £30m in profits in the first three months of this year.
Brian was appointed Editor of The Journal in December 2003, joining from Trinity Mirror's cost of roundtrip airline tickets to italy Liverpool base where he was Editorial cost of roundtrip airline tickets to italy Development Manager for the company's regional titles. He has also held senior positions at the Daily Record and the Evening Express, Aberdeen, as well as being a former Editor of the Lincolnshire Echo.