The new executive lounge was officially opened by Alec Robertson the leader of the council for Cornwall last Wednesday and will be available for use by any person who has a business class ticket at the airport. “I am delighted to officially open this wonderful new facility for business passengers using Newquay Cornwall Airport. This [...]

A recent survey has discovered that the relaxing on holiday people once dreamt of is a thing of the distant past. Britons now spend a mind boggling 250 million hours a year working while trying to enjoy their holiday time. Around 55 per cent of those polled said that they rely heavily on their mobile [...]

A Caspian Airlines plane carrying 168 people onboard has crashed yesterday killing all in the north of Iran. The plane was travelling from the Capital Tehran on its way to Yerevan in Armenia. “I saw the plane crashing nose-down. It hit the ground causing a big explosion. The impact shook the ground like an earthquake. [...]

BBCs profits at their Worldwide magazine operation dropped by almost a third while Lonely Planet fell more as recession is hitting travel and advertising habits. In 2007 the BBC spent £118 million of license payer fees buying the travel publisher Lonely Planet, they said that the combined fall of travellers and an 18 per cent [...]

The Channel Tunnel high speed train service that links England with France has reported a loss of six per cent in profits compared to the same time last year, which they say has come from the loss of business class travellers. The first half of this year saw 4.34 million passengers use the service compared [...]

A recent survey conducted by US magazine Travel and Leisure of its readers, has named Sixt the World’s Best Car Rental Agent. This is the fourteenth year of awards from Travel and Leisure and gives a great clue on public opinion in the travel sector. There are a variety of categories that are voted on, [...]

www.london.com A new report that has been commissioned by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson has suggested that a new super size airport could be built in the Thames Estuary within ten years. Experts are expected to push Mr Johnson into the £40 billion scheme at the same time as getting the third runway for [...]

www.southwest.com A Boeing 737 was forced to make an unexpected landing at Yeager Airport in West Virginia after a hole the size of a football was found in the fuselage. The Southwest jet had 126 passengers and five crew, when there was a sudden loss of cabin pressure and the oxygen masks deployed from over [...]

www.avisbudgetgroup.com The government in New South Wales (NSW), Australia is trialing a new scheme aimed at helping tourists who use rental cars negotiate their way around paying the motorway toll system. Michael Daley who is the minister for roads in NSW said they will initially being only using Avis and Budget rental cars for the [...]

www.ba.com Chief executive of British Airways (BA), Willie Walsh told share holders at their annual general meeting yesterday that BA will survive this recession and will come out even stronger when it has all passed. Denying criticism that BA are now more like the failed firm, British Leyland. Walsh did not hang around and got [...]