A leaked, internal document suggests that Transport for London is looking to new technologies as a way to reduce staff numbers and ticket offices at stations on the London Underground. According to the Rail, Maritime and Transport union, the implementation of new systems could lead to around 1,500 job cuts on the network.
The innovations being [...]

A new report suggests that many travel companies are facing serious trouble as their financial situations continue to deteriorate. In 2010, a number of major firms went to the wall, including Kiss Flights, XL and Goldtrail. The Red Flag Alert has been compiled by Begbies Traynor, a corporate administrator.
In the past year, the report claims, [...]

Virgin Australia is close to forming an alliance with Singapore Airlines, which will give it access to the lucrative Asian market. The Singapore Competition Commission has given the green light for a tie-up which would see the airlines cooperate on sales and marketing strategies, scheduling and pricing. The pair would also codeshare on routes and [...]

A group of indigenous Amazonian protesters has entered La Paz, Bolivia’s seat of government. Around 1,000 women, men and children have been marching to the city for the past two months from their home in the Amazon. They have arrived in order to bring a halt to plans to build a road through a rainforest [...]

Virgin Trains is proud to have won an award which recognises its efforts in improving customer satisfaction. The British Quality Foundation announced that its 2011 Customer Satisfaction BQF Achievement Award, which is sponsored by Oracle, would be going to Virgin Trains after the operator managed to cut customer complaints by 90 per cent over a [...]

It is feared that a German tourist visiting an island in French Polynesia may have been the victim of cannibals. Yachtsman Stefan Ramin from Hamburg was visiting the island of Nuku Hiva last month when he went missing. The island’s authorities have discovered clothes and what are believed to be human remains near a camp [...]

International Airlines Group chief executive, Willie Walsh, has voiced his concerns that the government’s new Transport Secretary could have a conflict of interest over aviation, as her constituency is directly below the Heathrow airport flight path. Justine Greening has been given the role after Philip Hammond was moved in to fill Liam Fox’s vacant position [...]

Increased competition appears to be squeezing profits at both Belfast International and Belfast City with some wondering whether the region can maintain two airports. In 2010, pre-tax profits at City were £15,000 which is a drop on 2009 when profits were £433,000. Pre-tax profits at Belfast International were down by 11 per cent in 2010 [...]

Car hire firm Dollar Thrifty has rejected the latest take over bid by Hertz Global. The company said the Hertz had failed to meet with necessary requirements by a pre determined deadline. Dollar said that Hertz had not managed to protect against possible objections by the antitrust bodies.
Scott Thompson, chief executive of Dollar Thrifty, said [...]

MPs have been told that UK motorists are spending around £2 billion every year on insurance costs which are unnecessary. Jack Straw, former Home Secretary, said that credit hire firms, garages, claims firms and lawyers were involved in a pernicious racket of referral fees which was nothing short of bribery. He even suggested that tip-fees [...]