free seats

With writers and actors on strike together for the first time in more than 60 years, even major players are offering free seats.

Several hundred have managed to score free seats on flights from Mexico City to Caracas sponsored by the Venezuelan and Mexican governments.

Nantgarw-based Ferris Holidays have offered free seats on a coach leaving the south of France on Tuesday night.

He said when travelling to the capital to view an exhibition earlier this week, the train there was on time with plenty of free seats, but on the way home it was delayed, pretty full and "doesn't feel worth it".

By turning their loyalty programs into income streams, the airlines could afford to give away more free seats.