Comtel Air, the carrier which found itself accused of asking passengers to hand over extra cash in order to get home this week, has cancelled services between the UK and India this weekend. The incident happened on Tuesday when the plane was making a stopover in Vienna. Due to financial reasons, passengers were asked to [...]

EADS, the owner of European planemaker Airbus, has said that operating profits for the third quarter of the year are down by 15 per cent to 322 million euros. The company has also announced that there will be delays to the delivery of its A350 jets. Revenues for the aerospace giant have also fallen by [...]

The government has been examining proposals which would make classic cars exempt from having to undergo an annual MoT inspection. The legislation would apply to all motor vehicles built before 1960. Ministers said the exemption made sense, because most owners of classic cars are meticulous about their upkeep. There are currently an estimated 162,000 cars [...]

Spanish tourism received a much needed reversal of fortune this summer, as foreign visitors returned in their droves. According to a survey, between July and September, the country welcomed 20.9 million tourists. The figure is an 8.5 per cent improvement on last year, and represents the third busiest summer period since records were first begun. [...]

Concerns over safety on the London Underground have caused train drivers to vote in favour of industrial action. Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union apparently voted four to one in favour of action, which will fall short of an actual strike. The union has blamed London Underground for dramatically reducing staff numbers and [...]

The controversial proposals to build a high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham have been slammed by Conservative MP for South Northhamptonshire Andrea Leadsom. She described the project as a white elephant and said that at £32 billion it was also incredibly expensive. If it follows the route which has already been propose, HS2 will [...]

British Airways’ parent company International Airlines Group has announced that it has established a new airline in Spain which will cater for short-haul and medium-haul travel. IAG was formed at the beginning of the year after BA and Spanish flag carrier Iberia joined forces. The new airline is to be called Iberia Express. The group [...]

Nikolas Sarkozy, the French President, has joined King Mohammed IV in Morocco to celebrate the launch of a rail project which will see Tangiers, Rabat and Casablanca linked by high-speed trains. The French-Moroccan agreement was first signed when Mr Sarkozy was visiting the country in 2007. The TGV project is scheduled to be completed in [...]

The UK’s leading travel operator is warning that a hike in holiday prices next year of around five per cent could mean that many families will not be able to afford any time away. TUI, the travel firm which owns First Choice and Thomson Holidays, said that increasing accommodation and fuel costs meant headline prices [...]

The UK’s Air Passenger Duty has again been attacked for having a negative affect on tourism. This time it was the turn of the WTTC which urged the government to revise pricing on journeys to the Caribbean. According to World Travel and Tourism Council boss, David Scowsill, something needs to be done immediately to protect [...]