Former boss of British Airways, now chief executive of parent company International Airlines Group, Willie Walsh is not sure that a plan to link Gatwick and Heathrow airports with high speed rail would produce significant benefits. He said the problem was that nobody really new how long the project would take to complete, or how [...]

The air quality in Milan, Italy, has been so poor over the last week that the city authorities decided to impose a ban on all traffic for 10 hours on Sunday in an attempt to clear the smog. The measure is implemented if smog levels are above the statutory maximum for twelve days in a [...]

Parent company of British Airways, International Airlines Group, has warned that although its passenger traffic was higher than expected in September, the outlook for October indicated that there would be a softer demand for business travel and for cargo services. The prediction comes as Lufthansa says sales in August were disappointing and that bookings for [...]

Flybe has issued a profit warning as the airline admits that traffic on domestic services continues to be disappointing. This is the second warning in less than six months. The regional carrier, based in Exeter, launched at the end of last year on the London Stock Exchange confident that demand on routes including Edinburgh to [...]

Virgin Holidays is to expand its retail presence across the UK by opening concessions after the successful trial of two outlets in London. The shops have been set up in Sainsbury’s supermarkets on Merton High Street, South London, and Cromwell Road, in Kensington.
Since last year, the holiday provider has increased the number of units it [...]

American Airlines, the third largest carrier in the US, has seen its share price plummet as traders fear its parent company, AMR, will be forced to seek bankruptcy protection. In New York, trading was halted at one point when stocks lost 41 per cent of their value. The airline has been struggling against a fall [...]

Kenya’s tourism industry could struggle to recover from a second holidaymaker being kidnapped from a resort in the north of the country and taken across the border to Somalia. Marie Dedieu, a 66-year-old disabled French citizen, was taken on Saturday from the bungalow she was staying in on a beach on Manda island, which is [...]

Transport Secretary Philip Hammond has announced a government consultation which will look into the efficacy of raising the speed limit on UK motorways from 70 to 80mph. The Department for Transport said that advances in technology on the roads meant that cars were now far safer than they once were and that there had been [...]

Protestors in Bolivia brought central La Paz to a standstill on Wednesday as they took to the streets to demonstrate against the planned building of a highway which would pass directly through an Amazon nature reserve. Indigenous communities are worried that the road will bring with it illegal settlers, but the government is arguing that [...]

The government has agreed to allow Air Passenger Duty to be cut in Northern Ireland so that Belfast airport can retain its only US airline route. The decision comes ahead of control of APD being devolved to Stormont. Continental Airlines has previously warned that the current £60 rate added to each flight out of Belfast [...]