For the people who do not know, Amadeus just so happens to be one of the aviation industry’s main computer networks. So, when this system goes down, it affects a lot of people. Unfortunately, for thousands of airline passengers, this is just what happened. Apparently, when the system went down, passengers were unable to check [...]

According to local reports, a Taiwanese family has now been told that they are to receive a refund on their rental car. However, these reports came after the family was first told that it would not receive such a refund, nor would it receive a replacement, after their rental car was rear-ended and fell off [...]

Things are not looking promising for Malev Airlines. For people who do not know, Malev Airlines is a Hungary state-owned airline that has been extremely unprofitable. Just recently, the airline was ordered by the European Union regulators to repay loans and guarantees it got from the Hungarian government. The European Commission apparently said that Hungary [...]

Four people were sent to hospital following a fire at a Somerset holiday village early this morning. A cluster of chalets at Pontins’ Brean Sands holiday complex close to Weston-super-Mare was destroyed in the blaze. The alarm was raised shortly after 02:00 today and local fire crews raced to the scene. Firefighters used breathing equipment [...]

The AA says that its army of streetwatchers has discovered that Britain is facing a winter of streets pitted with potholes. AA president, Edmund King, said late last week that the association’s 1,000-strong team of dedicated streetwatch volunteers had found that the pothole problem had exacerbated since last winter. Last year, every streetwatcher located an [...]

Lately, investigators in China have been looking into a high-speed rail crash that took place in eastern China. Officials really want to know what went wrong because some 40 people ended up dead as a result of the crash. On top of that, another 200 people were very badly injured. Well now investigators are saying [...]

It now seems that Flybe has announced its plans to cut many of its winter routes. This should not come as much of a shock to most people. In fact, the airline said that it will be cutting down its routes by 6 percent due to low demand and rising oil prices. This means, the [...]

Everyone has heard about the strikes going on in Australia. The industrial action there has caused Qantas to cancel tons of flights and caused travel chaos for tens of thousands of passengers. Of course, Qantas is not the only airline that is having to deal with strike. Just recently, Air France had to cancel one [...]

It seems that China Southern Airlines, like so many airlines, is sick of hearing about Boeing Dreamliner delays. The carrier is so sick, that it has been reported that this final delay was the last straw. The airline, which is the largest one in all of Asia by passenger volume, said that it may join [...]

It seems that the International Airlines Group, which is the company which now owns both Iberia and British Airways, said it is going to deliver significant full-year profit growth. This is an amazing announcement considering the terrible luck of the airline industry recently. The group said that it will see profits thanks to the uplift [...]