This classic from the 1990′s comedy duo Hale & Pace attempts to show how an airline company based in Yorkshire might look. We saw this in the office and immediately cracked up laughing.

Continuing his UK Tour, SkyPark Steve met travellers and staff at Liverpool Airport recently to check out all the official on site car parks and make sure they meet the very high standards we set to make sure that our customers holidays get off to the best possible start.

Steve met Mark the Security Guy who was delighted to have his picture taken and discuss the impressive security features that protect your car when you go on holiday. Mark and his team are onsite 24/7 looking after all cars parked on site, and with facilities including CCTV, 24 hour patrols and barrier entry, the parking facilities at Liverpool Airport at fantastic.

Steve loves meeting travellers at airports all over the country and the reception he received at Liverpool was the warmest to date – a crowd of students jetting off to Europe, groups of girls back from their summer holidays and countless kids all vying to have their picture taken with Steve on his latest visit.

We took plenty of photos and we’re going to put them on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/SkyparkSteve and we’d love to see your photos of Steve too. So much so that if you tag yourself in a photo taken with Steve when he visits any airport or car park in the UK we’ll give you 10% off your next booking with us.

SkyParkSecure Airport Parking Ltd has been named by the British Travel Awards as one of the shortlisted contenders for the Best Airport Parking Company 2011.

SkyParkSecure offer a wide range of airport parking products across the UK and are proud to lead the field in development and innovation, regularly rolling out updates and new features to continually improve their service to travellers up and down the country.

“We’re over the moon to have been nominated.” Managing Director, David Brown said. “Our team work very hard to ensure that our customers are looked after and we’re proud of the work we’ve done together to provide the very best booking service available.”

BTA’s chief executive Lorraine Barnes Burton said: “The British Travel Awards are widely considered to be the “Oscars” of the travel industry!  It’s the largest awards programme in the UK created to reward travel companies and the winning accolade is the benchmark for excellence when it comes to finding out who really is the best in the business of travel for the UK consumer.”

Companies were nominated by travel industry professionals and a selection of the previous year’s consumer voters, and the shortlisted companies now go to the consumer voting stage. In 2010 over 120,000 votes were cast with the results scrutinized and audited by Deloitte LLP.  The winners of the 2011 British Travel Awards will be announced at a glittering ceremony on 2 November at the Battersea Evolution in Battersea Park, London.

We’re dedicated to bring you the very best service and if you’ve found that we are the best at what we do we ‘d be incredibly grateful to receive your vote. You can vote for us by visiting http://www.britishtravelawards.com/vote_form.php

Voting is easy – simply visit the British Travel Awards web site and enter a few details to register to vote.  You’ll be taken straight to the voting page.

Choose ‘Who provides the best additional holiday services?’ and the choose ‘Best Airport Parking Company’ … select SkyParkSecure, click the submit button and you’re done!

You can of course vote for as many different categories as you like so have a look round and if you’ve used any of the companies listed and would like to vote for them please go ahead.

Thanks for your ongoing support

Working on the internet, you find all sorts of crazy videos. This has got to be one of the best I’ve seen in recent years.

SkyPark Steve is on a mission to get your holiday off to a cracker! Continuing his tour of the UK, Steve arrived at Liverpool In2 Car Parking to check out the facilities and meet up with some customers.

First port of call was to check out how secure the car park is and make sure that the shuttle buses run on time. Big scores on all points – customers didn’t wait long at all for their lift to the airport and the security promised by In2 lived up to expectations.

The car park is fully secure with crash barriers, wire fencing, CCTV and 24 hour patrols. Steve also interviewed a key member of staff and was impressed by the level of care the staff offer.

Adele from Liverpool In2 told us what makes In2 a winner at Liverpool Airport;  “Our car park is really easy to find; it’s in a great location on the main Boulevard towards the airport, and our customer service is second to none which is proven by our regular returning customers.”

Steve was delighted as usual to meet a family jetting off to Spain on their jollies and while one little chap was equally pleased to meet Steve, his elder brother couldn’t give two monkeys. Will get you next time!

Our main guy, SkyPark Steve is just as dedicated as we are to making sure your holiday gets off to the perfect start. Yesterday Steve started his UK Tour to meet and greet customers and check up on all the car parks offered on our web site.

His first stop was Manchester Airport where he met a delighted couple about to start married life with a honeymoon in Cyprus – what better way to get your marriage off to a fly than a hug from Steve?

Steve also made some new friends at Manchester Airport’s Aviation Viewing Park where he watched in delight as planes took off right before his eyes – it was a little worrying to see him more excited than the school children on a day trip.

Steve will be visiting more and more airports over the coming weeks and will be giving more information on what he finds at the car parks.

Yesterday Steve had the pleasure of inspecting JetParks 1, 2 & 3 and Shuttle Park at Manchester Airport. He reported that the security at these car parks is fantastic and the staff are very welcoming.

Customers get to the airport in big comfy shuttle buses that seem to arrive in a never ending stream – no-one waited for more than a couple of minutes for a bus while Steve was there.

JetParks 3 is the farthest from the airport but it is still only 5 minutes away in the bus so it may be the cheaper option from the JetParks range but it is a great official service from Manchester Airport.

Watch out for Steve at more airports over the coming weeks – he may even have a gift for you.

Skypark Steve on a training exorcise with the police in the US, showing them how skilled car parking, can evade even the most vigilant police officer.

The ash from the eruption of Grimsvotn in Iceland may be about to impact the UK travel industry.

A spokesman for the Met Office, which runs Europe’s Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre, said ‘This is a very different situation to last April. The weather is much more changeable and there is a lot more uncertainty. There’s no risk of the ash moving across the UK in the next day or so.

“But there is a possibility that we’ll see some volcanic ash towards the end of the week.”

Last year, when Eyjafjallajokull erupted, while other companies in the travel industry were charging exorbitant amounts of money to cancel or amend travellers bookings, we did everything we could to make sure that our customers were not penalised for travelling at that time.

We spoke directly with every car park to ascertain their policies for customers and did our utmost to make sure that we had a fair system in place for helping customers.

Every customer was offered a full refund or a credit to their account – even in cases where the car park concerned declined the customer any recompense or assistance.

We even offered FREE and then half price cancellation cover for a long period to reassure customers that we are always on their side.

This year, should the same situation emerge we will have everything in place to make sure we make any disruption to your travel as painless as possible – at least as far as your airport parking is concerned.

Every customer will be offered a credit on their account so that the value of their booking can be used against future bookings. We are also offering discounted cancellation cover until further notice so that for just 99p you can ensure that you will not be charged anything for amending your booking at any time.

We will keep you up to date on how things develop here on our blog. Should you have any urgent enquiries please don’t hesitate to get in touch with our customer support team.

Skypark secure have been entered into the British travel awards for 2011 for our services to the travel industry.

The British Travel Awards is the largest awards programme in the UK created to reward the best companies in travel. The awards are recognised by consumers and travel professionals throughout the UK.

If you’re a travel professional and you would like to vote for us, you can nominate us here

We have all been in this situation, no one likes trying to reverse out of a car park into oncoming traffic. But this individual has tried to be clever and find another way out …. via the stairs.