Tour operator Thomas Cook has reported a significant drop in summer holiday bookings. The company said on Tuesday that bookings during the two weeks leading up to 13 January saw a 33 per cent decrease despite being a key booking period for travel operators. However, the firm disputed reports in the Financial Times claiming that [...]
A parliamentary committee is calling on the government to take action amid spiking whiplash claim rates. The Transport Select Committee said on Wednesday that in the effort of keeping insurance premiums affordable that individuals claiming to have suffered whiplash in road accidents should be required to show proof. The panel also said practice of insurance [...]
UAE-based Emirates has announced it will be adding a second flight between Glasgow airport and its Dubai hub. The move comes as a major blow to Edinburgh airport amid competition for the carrier’s expanded service into Scotland. Instead, Emirates officials said on Tuesday that a second daily link between Glasgow and Dubai would commence on [...]
The firm set to buy BMI has indicated that routes between Ireland’s biggest cities and Heathrow will stay in place after BMI is purchased. The news came on Friday via Willie Walsh, chief executive of International Airlines Group, the owner of British Airways and Spanish carrier Iberia. He said to The Irish Times that flights [...]
Lufthansa and International Airlines Group have announced that they have reached an agreement for the sale of BMI. According to IAG, which owns British Airways and Iberia, the £172.5 million transaction is slated to be completed in before April of next year and warned that job losses were a strong possibility. Chief executive Willie Walsh [...]
US carrier Virgin America has posted a $3.3 million (£2.1 million) loss for the third quarter of 2011. The figure paints a fairly grim picture compared to the same period in 2010, when the airline announced net profits of $7.5 million (£4.7 million). Still, carrier officials remain optimistic and place most of the blame on [...]
Singapore Airlines’ forthcoming low-cost airline Scoot has announced its first route will be to Kingsford Smith airport in Sydney. The carrier’s chief executive, Campbell Wilson told reporters on Thursday that Scoot will begin operating the route midway through 2012 with a set of Boeing 777 wide-body jets acquired from its parent company, SIA. Scoot will [...]
Efforts from Singapore Airlines and Virgin Australia to create an international network has been approved by Australian regulators The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) announced today that it had submitted its final approval for the alliance between Virgin and the Singaporean flag carrier, marking the completion of the last task before the operation begins. [...]
A recent Twitter contest held by Qantas has resulted in angry replies from thousands of customers who have felt the effects of the recent strikes. The Australian flag carrier had asked consumers to describe through the social networking site what they deemed a ‘luxury in-flight experience’ to be for the chance to win Qantas products as [...]
Budget carrier Ryanair is offering its airport staff members a bonus for each passenger caught with overweight or oversized hand luggage. Staff working at Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport will receive a 50p bonus for each instance when a bag is identified as being too heavy or too large in accordance with the carrier’s cabin baggage [...]
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