Saturday, June 5, 2010.

NEXT time you fly from Gatwick, rather than jetlag you could land a model contract.Supermodel Lily Cole has launched the airport"s search for a catwalk star and the winner will get a contract with top agency Storm and the chance to model at Gatwick fashion week.

The airport will give £1 to Great Ormond Street hospital for every entry received.Storm have scouts around the airport and there are special photo booths for anyone who thinks they may have been missed. Eight entrants will be selected to attend a model boot camp day. If you"re not flying from Gatwick you can enter online.

See gatwickevents.com/runwaymodels.

1.ABTA, the travel association, wants us to write to our MPs to stop the Government piling huge taxes on long haul flights.The new Government has already outlined plans to reform Air Passenger Duty (APD) and to replace it with a per-plane duty (PPD), which makes more sense environmentally.But ABTA is worried the new tax might be so high it will price average travellers out of foreign holidays.

2.FLYBE has launched its month-long on-board charity push to raise funds Cancer Research UK. Last year, passengers raised more than £100,000 during the campaign and another £5,500 on World Cancer Day this February.Flybe"s Mike Rutter says: "The logistics in organising on-board collections on 13,242 flights for a whole month is a huge undertaking. We hope to beat last year"s impressive figures."

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http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/3000879/Air-News-Hit-the-runway-like-top-model.html#ixzz0px0XtQ8c