Avis Budget Group, operator of the world’s most widely recognized brands in the vehicle rental industry, was recently named as Salvage Direct’s newest selling partner. With the new partnership, the car hire firm can now utilize Salvage Direct’s website, its principal auction platform, to sell Avis and Budget cars to buyers around the world. Dan [...]
Last weekend’s earthquake in Chile killed 700 people. All forms of communications were down though electricity, phone lines and public transportation had been restored in Santiago, which is situated about 200 miles to the northeast of the central Chilean city of Concepcion. Damage control was also carried out in the port city of Valparaiso that [...]
Pinnacle Airlines cancelled one of their flights recently for a very novel reason, two flight attendants got into a debate that according to some witnesses led to fisticuffs. The spat began just before takeoff.
The pilot ordered the travelers on board the flight to leave the plane just after the two women decided to go at [...]
Last year the car hire world was rocked by the consequences of the global economic downturn. In countries like Spain and Portugal the lack of funds being made available to rental firms to replace the vehicles in their fleets meant that the price of car hire sky rocketed. This year will be a year of [...]
New full-body scanners are set to be installed in each of Heathrow’s five terminals next week. Even though the government’s Equality and Human Rights Commission has warned that the machines could very well breach a persons right to privacy under the Human Rights Act, ministers have said that no passenger will be allowed to refuse [...]
The Ethiopian Airlines jet which crashed into the sea shortly after taking off from Beirut Airport on Monday was allegedly previously the property of Ryanair. Witnesses say that the jet burst into a ball of flames as it crashed into the sea. All ninety passengers on board are thought to have been killed. Michael O’Leary, [...]
Those deciding to rent a car for their holidays have been advised to read and understand the terms and conditions outlined in the hire contract before committing their signature to the dotted line. Recent research by Which? Holiday has found that many car hire companies are severely lacking in the amount of information they offer [...]
As British Airways cabin crews return to the polls this week to cast their ballots the airline has announced that anyone who decides to walk out will immediately have all travel privileges revoked. They will also lose any days off that would have been earned by flying as well as their pay. BA say that [...]
With the football World Cup just around the corner managers of car rental companies in South Africa are feeling upbeat about the future. As with everywhere else in the world South African car hire has been feeling the pinch of the global economic downturn. Many companies struggled to remain profitable as business and leisure customers [...]
British Airways seems to be unimpressed by the fact that Len McCluskey, assistant general secretary at the trade union Unite has said that if a strike by BA cabin crew goes ahead it will not take place during the Easter holidays. McCluskey announced that the union wanted to avoid dates when families were most likely [...]
