Recently, the well-known airline Qantas has been forced to ground its fleet of six Airbus A380s. This news comes after one of its planes had to make an emergency landing in Singapore. This emergency landing took place on Flight QF32 to Sydney. It experienced engine troubles soon after taking off, which is what forced the [...]

It now appears that the aviation industry is backing a call by the chairman of British Airways for a radical overhaul of airport security checks. Martin Broughton said that some parts of the security program are completely redundant. Britain should stop “kowtowing” to the United States every time it wants something done. Martin was speaking [...]

Hertz, which is one of the world’s most well known car rental companies, has just recently announced this week its plans to accelerate its adoption of self service technology. They wall be doing this by rolling out Self Service Express touch kiosks from NCR Corporation at selected locations across nine countries in Europe. The Self [...]

Just recently, India’s premier international airline, Jet Airways, entered into a reciprocal frequent flyer partnership with BMI. For those that do not know, BMI is the second largest airline at London Heathrow Airport, which is also one of the world’s busiest airports. The well known Jet Airways frequent flyer program, JetPrivilege, is now allowing its [...]

The high speed passenger service in the UK, Eurostar, has just recently announced the launch of Eurostar Plus. This is going to be a collection of special offers and discounts for travelers that will be traveling to the continent. Eurostar Plus will help people get even more from their Eurostar tickets. For people that do [...]

Recently, there has been a lot of controversy going on about a cancer patient that claims he and his girlfriend were thrown out of a seaside hotel after he was accused of writing a negative review on the travel website TripAdvisor. Adrian Healey, who actually just completed chemotherapy on 14 tumors, checked in to the [...]

It now seems that Hertz has just recently launched their first ever global sale for their customers in Europe. This means that the car hire giant well be offering special rates on rentals with discounts up to 33 percent at many popular cities and tourist destinations around the world. This one-of-a-kind sale only runs until [...]

Apparently a high level Caribbean delegation has begun a three-day lobby in the UK. The purpose of this lobby is to try and get the UK to drop is very unpopular air passenger duty tax. This tax increase is being viewed around the world as unfair. This delegation, which does include six Caribbean tourism ministers, [...]

Just recently, passengers on a British Airways flight were told that they were just about to crash into the sea. This news was given to the passengers after an emergency message was played in error. This, of course, brought a lot of fear to people on the plane who were preparing for the worst. Reports [...]

New research, which was done by TripAdvisor, shows that about 91 percent of British that were surveyed are more nervous now about booking their holiday with a less well known travel firm. This news comes just following the collapse of many tour operators all over the UK. It is no wonder why British holidaymakers are [...]