Airbus Ranks GoAir as Best Performing Airline Overall
Posted on: May 31st, 2011 Posted by Lucy Williams
The well-known low far domestic airline from India, GoAir, has just recently been ranked as the “Best Performing Airline” by Airbus. It was given this title in the Airbus A320 category for operators in Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa. Overall, this is a pretty big deal for a number of reasons. However, one of [...]
Travel Chaos Hits Network Rail Routes on the East Coast
Posted on: May 30th, 2011 Posted by Michael Bond
Apparently a lot of people had their travel plans this past weekend thrown into chaos. In fact, thousands of people saw delays since 70 percent of the trains that traveled around the east coast where down. Although there is never a good time for routes to suffer delays, this past weekend could not have been [...]
Grimsvotn Volcano Ash Cloud Finally Breaks Up
Posted on: May 27th, 2011 Posted by Lucy Williams
It now seems that travel chaos in Europe has finally come to an end. This news comes as the volcanic ash cloud from the Icelandic volcano Grimsvotn has finally broken up. The ash cloud broke up on Thursday and officials said that all affected airspace has now been reopened. The volcano had erupted last Saturday [...]
Ryanair Still Denying That It Called Former Miss World Winner Racist
Posted on: May 26th, 2011 Posted by Lucy Williams
It seems that Ryanair just cannot get itself out of the dog house. Currently the head of communications at Ryanair, Stephen McNamara, said that he did not call former Miss World winner Rosanna Davison a racist. For the people who do not remember, it was claimed that McNamara had criticized Davison during a press release [...]
Japan Launches First Budget Airline called Peach Aviation
Posted on: May 25th, 2011 Posted by Michael Bond
It now seems that Japan has made its very first low-cost carrier called Peach Aviation. This new low-budget airline was shown off this past Tuesday. The first thing that people normally notice about this airline is, of course, its unique name. According to the airline, its name is supposed to “invoke positive images,” meaning that [...]
Jetstar Pushing Passengers to Do it Themselves
Posted on: May 24th, 2011 Posted by Marianna Lee
The days of airport staff helping consumers check in are almost gone. In fact, Jetstar is now making a huge push to make passengers take part in a “do it yourself” automated system. This pretty much means that passengers flying with Jetstar are, not only going to have to print their own tickets, but they [...]
Former Miss World Winner Rosanna Davison Plans On Suing Ryanair
Posted on: May 23rd, 2011 Posted by Simon Bracknell
It now seems that brand new reports show that the former Miss World Winner Rosanna Davison is now taking well-known low-cost airline Ryanair to court. Apparently she is claiming that the budget airline branded her as a racist, and she was not going to stand for it. The 27-year-old model, who has been very successful, [...]
Air Canada sees Latest Proposal Rejected by Pilot Association
Posted on: May 20th, 2011 Posted by Michael Bond
According to new reports, the Air Canada pilots have just recently voted in favor of rejecting a proposal by the Canadian airline. Apparently, if this proposal would have been accepted, it would of resulted in a discount airline being launched by Air Canada. This new part of the airline would have been going up against [...]
easyJet says Rising Passenger Taxes will Cause Problems for the Industry
Posted on: May 19th, 2011 Posted by Steven Powell
A lot of airlines are upset about rising passenger taxes, but no more so than easyJet. This airline has just recently come clean on their disapproval of this new tax increase. They said that this is going to do nothing more than hurt passenger numbers in the UK. However, this is a problem that easyJet [...]
Inflation in Britain Jumped Last Month with Soaring Travel Costs
Posted on: May 18th, 2011 Posted by Lucy Williams
It now seems, according to new reports, that soaring travel costs have actually pushed up the rate of inflation. These reports went on to point out that inflation in Britain actually jumped to its highest level in two-and-a-half years in the month of April. This jump was caused by things like soaring travel costs during [...]

