As it continues to recover from bankruptcy, Japan Airlines has reportedly said that it is planning to release shares worth up to 1 trillion yen as it relists on the stock exchange in Tokyo. A sale of this size would turn JAL into one of the biggest listed airlines on the planet. At the beginning [...]

Small cracks recently found on wing components of A380 super-jumbo aircraft pose no safety risks, Qantas and Singapore Airlines said today. The news comes after the aircraft model’s manufacturer, Toulouse-based Airbus, said on Thursday that tiny hairline cracks had been spotted on several A380s but said the issue would not affect the plane’s ability to [...]

US-based airlines have just completed the country’s safest ever decade for air travel. According to a recent study conducted by the Associated Press, 153 people died in commercial aviation accidents over the last ten years, which amounts to two lives for every 100 million passengers flown. The figure marks a substantial improvement over years prior. [...]

As people across the UK prepare to return to work, the Met Office is warning that it could be a chilly start to the year as a storm brings with it heavy rain and strong winds. A severe weather warning has been issued for parts of the country. The heaviest showers are likely to be [...]

A Briton was attacked and killed on Sunday at a resort in Sri Lanka. The Foreign Office has confirmed that Kuram Shaikah Zaman on Christmas Day and said his next of kin have been advised, but the agency has released no other details. According to local police, the incident occurred early in the morning at [...]

Car rental giant Avis has announced that it will soon feature British-made MG6 cars as part of its rental fleet. Avis UK said in a statement released on Wednesday that MG had delivered 100 of the Magnette sports saloon and GT fastback versions of the MG6 and that they were being prepared to become immediately [...]

A snow and ice warning has been issued by the Met Office and severe weather is expected to hit some areas of Scotland. The Multi Agency Response Team has said that it will be continuing to monitor the situation. Kinross and Perth are expected to be affected, as is Dumfries and Galloway, some roads in [...]

An inquiry regarding the sky-high cost of car cover has been launched by the Office of Fair Trading. The regulating agency said the move comes as a result of its finding that premiums in the UK’s £10 billion car insurance industry had risen 21 per cent in just the past two years. OFT officials said [...]

The Department for Transport has found that thousands of drivers who should not have been permitted to get behind the wheel because of a drink driving conviction have been given their licenses back. An internal investigation has found that many ‘high risk’ offenders have been permitted back onto the roads without first undergoing a required [...]

British Airways has said that it will hire half as many workers in 2012 as previously thought because of scheduled 8 per cent rise in Air Passenger Duty rates. Willie Walsh, chief executive of IAG, BA’s parent firm, told reporters that the benefits of the government’s efforts to raise the tax would be overshadowed by [...]