Low cost carrier Jet2 has announced it will be making flying easier for taller passengers by fitting all its aircraft with new ergonomically designed seats. By making them thinner than usual there is now more space in front and the way they have been sculpted means there is more leg room which allows taller customers [...]
Chief Executive Willie Walsh of British Airways announced plans to raise the number of flights to five round-trips a week between Tokyo’s Haneda airport and London when the new route is launched next February. Talking to Kyodo News, Walsh confirmed daily services between London and Haneda will be established in due time. In October, Haneda [...]
A female crew member was asked to go home after collecting money for fired and suspended colleagues, sending the Unite trade union into fits of anger and dispirit. The union warned the dispute with British Airways is likes to deepen following the suspension. But industrial action over the holiday season is highly improbable considering the [...]
Qantas, Australia’s largest airline, announced that it would gradually bring its grounded Airbus A380s back into service starting at the weekend. One of the superjumbos is due to fly via Singapore to London from Sydney on Saturday. It was just after leaving Singapore in the other direction that a Qantas A380 experienced massive engine failure [...]
As councils struggle to balance the books due to spending cuts the government has been asked by a number of local authorities to raise the cap on parking fines. If allowed, six councils outside London will raise parking penalties from £70 to £120. Motoring groups have slammed the plans saying that it is just another [...]
Early in the New Year, Nissan will be launching its new electric car for the mass market – the Leaf. Instead of a petrol driven engine the hatchback runs on a bank of batteries capable of powering the vehicle for 100 miles on a single charge. The company claims this will make it perfect for [...]
European airline giant Air France-KLM has declared its second straight quarter of profit. For the three months ending 30 September, the carrier published a €290 million net profit. This figure exceeds analyst’s expectations of a €248 million announcement. Paul Butler, an analyst at Macquarie Research, London, said the results were excellent and has rated the [...]
Loss-making Spanish airline Spanair has confirmed that it is seeking investment from one or more of its partners in the Star Alliance in return for a stake in the Barcelona based carrier. The airline recently angered other European budget competitors after it received investment from the regional government of Catalonia. Last month, Spanair received €10 [...]
A technical fault which caused smoke to fill the cockpit of a Qantas Boeing 747-400 has caused it to return to Sydney just an hour into its journey to Argentina. The airline claims it was a minor electrical fault which caused the problem. Having put on oxygen masks, the pilot and crew safely brought the [...]
Thrifty Car Rental in Oman has announced that in order to keep up with expected demand it will be increasing the size of its rental car fleet by at least 10 per cent. Deputy managing director of the Dollar Thrifty franchise, Mehdi Jaffer, said the weather conditions over the next couple of months will be [...]
