The Graveyard
We shopped these companies as secret customers from as early as 1999 and wrote up our reviews. They are not around any more from what we can see. The reviews stay published because the research still stands, but nobody should go looking for a quote.
STA Travel
The student-travel giant went into administration in August 2020 after COVID shut down the gap-year market it was built on. It had been selling flights to students since 1979.
statravel.com The site is dark, but the domain is not abandoned: it is still registered through CSC Corporate Domains, a brand-protection registrar. Someone is deliberately holding the name.
Read the original review (2014)
Round the World Flights
A UK specialist that built RTW itineraries by hand. It stopped trading at some point after our review and let the domain lapse.
roundtheworldflights.com Someone re-registered it as an online casino affiliate site. A domain that once sold you a trip around the world now sells you slot machines. 🙂
Read the original review (2012)
Student Flights (Australia)
Flight Centre's Australian youth-travel brand. We shopped its round-the-world arm, which traded from its own site.
round-the-world.com The site is dark, though the domain is still held by Flight Centre Travel Group. The parent brand's site, studentflights.com.au, now redirects to StudentUniverse.
Read the original review (2012)
Student Flights (New Zealand)
The New Zealand arm of the same brand, folded back into its parent.
studentflights.co.nz Redirects to Flight Centre New Zealand's youth holidays page.
Read the original review (2012)
Great Escapade
An Australian RTW specialist we shopped in an earlier version of the report.
thegreatescapade.com No longer responds. (The similar greatescapade.com is a different name entirely, registered by a domain investor in September 2012 and parked for sale ever since. It was never theirs.)
Read the original review (2012)
Still trading? See the current reviews.