The cost of booking a hotel room in London during this summer’s Olympic Games has soared. This is in spite of the fact that the organisers have handed back a large volume of rooms they no longer require. VisitBritain’s head, Sandie Shaw, said that she believed that many hotels were deliberately waiting before offering rooms [...]

As a way of helping to keep congestion to a minimum during the Olympic Games this summer, Transport for London has unveiled a new website which will allow passengers to use an interactive map, select travel dates and see just how busy stations are expected to be during the event. Details on the Paralympics will [...]

American Airlines’ parent firm has announced plans to cut its workforce by 13,000. The major US carrier, which employs nearly 100,000 people worldwide, said on Wednesday that the move would come part of its restructuring plans in the wake of filing Chapter 11 bankruptcy. AMR said it wants to cut its labour costs by 20 [...]

The IATA has said that passenger traffic on flights worldwide climbed by 5.9 per cent in 2011. Officials from the International Air Travel Association said on Thursday that last year’s increase came despite difficult conditions and said 2012 is likely to be another tough year for airlines around the world. The organisation said in an [...]

The growing trend of online shopping in the Middle East is likely to spread to car hire bookings, Hertz UAE has said. The prediction comes this week via an official release from one of the region’s largest car rental providers, which said that following a 35 per cent increase in internet bookings over the last [...]

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 [...]

The Rail, Maritime and Transport union has turned down an offer of a bonus of £500 to be paid to workers on the London Underground who do their jobs during the Olympic Games this summer. The union said that the offer was too little. George McInulty, the Tube’s director said that discussions on the matter [...]

Problems with one of the main booking systems for airlines caused significant disruptions early this week. The glitch in the Amadeus system hit the industry for around three hours on Monday causing major backups for check-in procedures on numerous Oneworld carriers including Cathay Pacific, Iberia, Qantas and British Airways. Officials said that the system’s automatic [...]

Thousands of passengers have been left stranded across Europe and Africa after the collapse of Spanair, Spain’s fourth biggest carrier. Operations were halted on Friday resulting in the sudden cancellation of 200 flights. The collapse could possibly lead to the airline being fined as much as 9 million euros by the Spanish authorities. For the [...]

Budget airline Ryanair has announced profits of 14.9 million euros for the final quarter of 2011. The increase in profit compared to a year earlier has been due to higher ticket prices and better winter weather. Cancellations because of ice and snow meant that the airline issued a loss of 10.3 million euros at the [...]