Thomson Holidays was first started in 1965 by Canadian businessman Roy Thomson. Roy Herbert Thomson (June 5th  1894- August 4th 1976) was born in Toronto, Ontario June 5 1894.

After WWI Thomson became a radio salesman in Northern Ontario, but he found this really hard as there really were not that many radio stations around that part of the world. So, in order to make  selling radios easier to potential customers he thought he had better start up a radio station! This he did in 1931 and although he  still sold radios for quite a long time after that,  his  main business became the radio station.  Having made a very large success of this Thomson went on to buy lots more radio stations and also newspapers in various Ontario locations ( by the early 50s he owned nineteen newspapers in total!). Thomson expanded his empire into the British newspaper business which went to include The Times and The Sunday Times as well as buying Scottish Television. In 1964 Thomson was made a British Citizen.

In 1965 Roy Thomson created Thomson Holidays which he built by having bought a few smaller travel companies  as well as the airline Britannia Airways.

 In 1972  Thomson Holidays also bought the travel agency Lunn Poly.  Poly travel was founded in 1888 and named Poly travel because it was set up by Regent Street Polytechnic. It provided  a travel service only for students  but in the 50s- because its travel programme was so popular-, it was renamed Poly Travel Ltd and its holidays were opened up to the public.  Sir Henry Lunn Travel was founded by Sir Henry Simpson Lunn (July 30 1859-March 18 1939)  five years after Poly Travel. After many years of rivalry The Poly and Lunn groups  merged in 1965 when Lunns  acquired Poly Travel and the company became Lunn Poly. This went on to be one of the biggest chains of travel agents in Britain. When Thomson Holidays bought the travel agency Lunn Poly in 1972 the travel company had an extremely large high street presence (it was 32 years later, in 2004, that The Lunn Poly brand was finally put under the banner of Thomson Holidays ).

In 2000 Tui Travel PLC acquired Thomson Travel.

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Want to know what days Thomson flights are to Fuerteventura? To find out flight days and flight times to Fuerteventura and how you can book your Thomson Travel flight to Corralejo click here.

Fly to Fuerteventura with easyjet

Easyjet (or easyjet with a small e as it is actually known) was started by Stelios Haji-Ioannou, a Greek born British businessman. Easyjet’s first flight was on 09 April 1992 and they now fly to over one hundred destinations across Europe and Northern Africa.. from Tel Aviv to Finland!  EasyJet launched their new routes from London Stansted and Liverpool to Fuerteventura in November 2009 which is fantastic news for people who want to travel to Fuerteventura.  Ever since Ryanair stopped flying people have been asking : how do we find cheap flights to Fuerteventura , or what are the cheapest flights to Fuerteventura….well now we have the answer!

With easyjet, as well as the other airlines and travel Companies such as Thomas Cook and Thomson Holidays lowering their prices to compete with the budget airlines, it is a lot cheaper to travel to Corralejo and to find the cheapest deals to Fuerteventura.

Want to know what days easyjet fly to Fuerteventura ?  Click here to get flight information.