Ministers are considering plans to link Gatwick and Heathrow airports via a high speed railway service. The idea is to create a virtual hub, currently being called Heathwick, which could help to tackle the problem of diminishing capacity at airports in the south east. The trains would travel at up to 180mph meaning the journey [...]

A Thomson Airways plane flying from Birmingham to Lanzarote is the first ever UK commercial airliner to be partially powered by old chip fat. The Boeing 757 is a twin-engine design, and one of the engines was running off a mixture of 50 per cent fatty acids and hydroprocessed esters and 50 per cent aviation [...]

As British Airways owner IAG announces and increase in passenger traffic for September it also says that Spain will get a new low-cost airline. IAG was formed at the beginning of year after BA joined with Spain’s Iberia. The new carrier is set to launch in March next year and will be called Iberia Express. [...]

International Airlines Group, the mega-airline created by the merger of British Airways and Spanish flag-carrier Iberia, has said that passenger traffic was up in September by 4.3 per cent compared to the same month a year ago, and that its load factor was up to 82.8 per cent, a rise of 0.1 per cent on [...]

Figures published by the Passenger Shipping Association suggest that the number of Brits deciding to book a cruise for their next holiday will soar in 2012. The PSA expects 835,000 people to board a liner at a British port next year, a 28 per cent increase in just two years. In order to cope with [...]

Members of British Airways’ Executive Club are being offered the opportunity to attend an advanced safety course. For around £125, customers will be taught advanced techniques which they can use in the case of an emergency. The session lasts for around four hours and shows trainees how best to evacuate their seats and where life [...]

Guests planning to stay in the Manchester Hilton over the weekend had to be booked into neighbouring hotels after a power cut which lasted for 48-hours. The Hilton, which is in the Beetham Tower, has guest rooms on the first 23 floors of the building. The upper floors are residential flats and experienced no issues [...]

The government is to look at proposals by the Department for Transport to raise the legal speed limit on motorways in England and Wales to 80mph. According to Philip Hammond, secretary for transport, the 70mph restrictions which were introduced in 1965 have become outdated. He said that advances in technology and safety meant that the [...]

The case of Matthew Taylor, a 30-year-old Brit recovering from a motorcycle accident in a Singapore hospital, has prompted an MP to request the government makes it compulsory for holidaymakers to have travel insurance. Mr Taylor was working as a teacher in Bali when he suffered acute head injuries after crashing his motorcycle. Because he [...]

The level of Air Passenger Duty on international routes from Northern Ireland is to be cut after the only US service from the region threatened to pull out. Continental Airlines, which flies from Belfast to Newark, said it would have to consider cancelling the service as the £60 level of APD on tickets failed to [...]