A number of new appointments have been announced by First Class Holidays, which plans to hire more staff in the years to come.

Paula Martin has been promoted to head of sales at the long haul operator. She has been with the company a long time.

Basnett-Jones has been hired as a sales executive to support the operator's travel agent partners. She used to work at Booking.com.

The company has taken on a new head of reservations in the past few weeks.

The company has made a number of appointments including a travel specialist, an after-sales executive and a marketing executive.

Daniel Gathercole said that they were fortunate to have recruited some very talented staff.

He comes with a lot of experience and was recommended. Paula has been in the business for 25 years and is respected by both our staff and agents.

Demand is going to increase ahead of peaks, so we are still looking for new staff.