20/09/2013 00:00
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Dear Sir,
I see the lack of Winter Flights issue has raised its head again. But why should it be a story anymore? Nobody has done anything about it in the past, and probably won’t still do anything about getting winter tourism back to these islands.
As a matter of interest for the seven days from 7-13 December next, there are 47 easyJet flights from 10 UK destinations to Malaga: 53 flights, also from 10 destinations, to Alicante and a paltry 18 flights to six destinations from Palma, of which eight are to Gatwick! Incidentally, there are nearly as many flights from Malaga to Gatwick in that period as there are total flights from Majorca to all of the UK!
Don’t those figures tell a tale?
Remember that long forgotten slogan the Government dreamt up years ago: “A Tourist a Friend” ... if only they had meant it.
Ian Morrison
Porto Colom

Dear Sir,
Tuesday’s (17/09) “Headlines in the Last 50 Years” recalls the death of Swedish Diplomat Count Bernadotte. During World War II he worked through the Red Cross and negotiated the release of over 30,000 prisoners from German Concentration Camps including 1600 Jews. He was appointed the first UN Arab-Israeli mediator.
Among other things he proposed a Two-State solution not welcomed by either side. 65 years later it is still a dream and any move to grand Palestine UN membership vetoed in the Security Council by the USA. He was assassinated in Jerusalem in 1948 by the Zionist Stern Gang led among others by Yitzhak Shamir later PM of Israel.
This terrible lack of gratitude is not meant to be part of a George Galloway pro-Arab anti-US/Israel rant but to draw attention to the almost unbelievable level of blinkered rancour that exists between the two peoples. This festering sore is spread over most of the Middle East where we involve ourselves at our own high risk.
Mike Lillico
Playa de Palma