Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce has hit out at proposed amendments to airline laws in Australia. He said the changes were likely to mean a reduction in services and could force the flag carrier to dispose of its budget Jetstar brand. The pro-Australia airline bills being proposed by a Senate committee include amending the laws [...]

Ferry operations between Cork and Swansea are not to resume after the firm was unable to secure a rescue package. The firm officially went into receivership late last week after its owners were unable to come up with €1.6 million (£1.24 million) to keep it afloat amid ongoing financial turmoil after undergoing examinership in November. [...]

Caribbean tourism is being damaged by the high cost of travelling to the region from the UK. Over the past half-decade there has been a 16 per cent drop in the number of people stepping off a plane from the UK. One of the reasons for this is the Air Passenger Duty added on to [...]

Tory MPs are urging David Cameron to abandon his efforts of backing the Thames Estuary airport plan. Reports said this week that the Prime Minister had received a letter signed by six backbench MPs saying that the facility would entail “devastating” environmental impacts of global proportions and would also have adverse effects on residents living [...]

The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office has issued a travel warning to all Brits planning to visit Nigeria after 178 people were killed in recent attacks by terrorists. Boko Haram, a radical Islamist group, was responsible for the devastation at the end of last week in Kano, a city in the north of the country. [...]

Motor insurance premiums are once again on the rise, the AA has said. Recent figures show that the cheapest annual premium rate in 2011 was £971, marking a 15 per cent increase from the previous year, which included a 5 per cent spike in the three months leading up to the new year. AA officials [...]

The search is continuing for 29 people who remain unaccounted for after a cruise ship ran aground off the west coast of Italy last Friday. The capsizing of the Costa Concordia has already resulted in the death of six people, but the local coastguard said it was not giving up hope that more survivors will [...]

A body representing airlines in China has said that the country’s largest carriers will refuse to pay a new carbon tax which was imposed by the European Union at the beginning of this year. The emissions trading scheme requires all airlines flying to or from airports in Europe to pay a levy to offset the [...]

UK-based Virgin Atlantic has been named the top international airline in the Travel Weekly Readers’ Choice Awards. Among other award recipients, readers of the travel publication chose Delta Airlines as the best US-based carrier whilst Singapore Airlines was named as the best provider of first class and business class services. Meanwhile, readers recognised international hotelier [...]

Preparations for the start of the biggest civil engineering project in Europe are well under way as the first of eight enormous digging machines makes its way to London. The Tunnel Boring Machines will be used to excavate 21kms of tunnel beneath the capital for the Crossrail scheme. The digging part of the process is [...]