Recently there has been a lot of talk about Air Passenger Duty (APD). This is because this tax was just recently on the edge of rising yet again. This had, not only travel companies upset, but holidaymakers as well. However, it is now believed that Chancellor George Osborne is going to announce that the APD [...]

Whenever the Olympic Games roll around, people around the world go crazy trying to get tickets for the games. However, getting tickets for the game is just half the battle. The second half of the battle is, of course, to get a hotel room. Although there are still hotel rooms open, travelers should expect to [...]

It now seems that yet another UK car maker has gone into administration. The administrators that were brought in to save this company, Bristol Cars, have announced that 22 of the firm’s 27 members would have to be made redundant. The redundancies that are being made will include all of the staff that currently work [...]

Currently no one can guarantee anyone’s safety in Libya. Due to this, a number of governments around the world have started announcing travel warnings to Libya. It is because of these travel warnings that a number of high-profile airlines have started canceling flights to this area. British Airways and bmi are among the airlines that [...]

One by one, countries around the world are starting to put their faith back into Egypt. Apparently now the Swedish foreign ministry has relaxed its travel restrictions, but it has been pointed out that they have not relaxed it as much as other countries. For example, the UK has fully put their faith back into [...]

According to recent reports, thousands of British Airways cabin crew members are now going to be re-balloted over industrial action. This news comes after the Unite union actually abandoned their plans for fresh walkouts after the carrier questioned the legality of the union’s January strike ballot. The newly elected general secretary of the Unite union, [...]

Ever since the economic downturn that started a few years ago, the travel industry has changed. The airline industry is starting to offer less first-class seating and more economy-class seating. Companies are asking their business travelers to downgrade. There have also been a number of budget airlines popping up to cater to the large number [...]

It now seems that lawyers, who are acting on behalf of Ryanair, have been instructed to appeal against a Spanish court decision to ban the airline’s £40 boarding card reissue fee. Just recently Barcelona Commercial Court No. 1 ruled that Ryanair’s reissuing fee, which applies to anybody unable to produce a self-printed boarding pass after [...]

There were a number of big problems last year that really took their toll on the airline industry. Everything from snow to volcanic eruptions caused airlines to be less profitable than what they would have liked to been. However, according to new reports, these problems have just carried over to the new year. So far [...]

It now seems that easJet has just recently confirmed that it will be exercising an option on 15 of its new aircraft from Airbus. Originally these planes were going to be delivered in 2014. These A320 planes will be employed by the Luton based low-cost carrier to develop routes in Europe as it battles to [...]