Iraqi Airways has been forced to cancel all flights as its country’s government announced that the state-owned flag carrier is bankrupt and will have to close down. According to Iraq’s transportation ministry, the situation has been brought about because of a war reparations dispute with neighbouring Kuwait. Kuwait Airways claims that it is owed $1.2 billion by [...]

Rival airlines of the strike-hit UK flag carrier British Airways (BA) have been busy taking advantage of the situation by advertising their services as safe and strike-free. Some of the recent advertisements publicised are from Bmi, Emirates and Virgin Atlantic (VA) - BA’s most bitter rival. VA recently posted on its website the slogan ‘Avoid the [...]

Crowds went to Manchester Airport to receive David Beckham back to London. The midfielder was revisiting the country for the Champions League, where Beckham’s team AC Milan will compete with his old squad Manchester United. Upon his arrival at the airport, Beckham was given a wholehearted welcome by dozens of fans, reporters and photographers, even [...]

Leading car hire car broker Economy Car Hire has announced the release of a new fleet of eco-friendly hybrid cars across its UK airport locations, allowing customers easy opportunities to reduce their carbon footprint while avoiding congestion charges in the capital. Economy Car Hire, which features handy all-inclusive rates with no insurance excesses to eliminate [...]

It seems that airline easyJet will fill the slots at Gatwick Airport, which will be vacated by Aer Lingus later this year. The budge airline is adding three aircrafts to its fleet at Gatwick but has not revealed where they will be flying to. Aer Lignus, meanwhile, will take two of its Airbus A320′s out [...]

It now seems that the new owners of Gatwick Airport are set to eliminate long check ins and security queues as a top priority of taking control. As of right now, Gatwick Airport is the second largest airport in all of Britain. Global Infrastructure Partners, is the company that is set to buy Gatwick Airport [...]

The move by Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) to purchase Gatwick Airport has been met with mixed response but the group has promised to make extensive improvements. Already the owners of London City Airport, GIP has promised passengers and improved airport experience after announcing their purchase for £1.51 billion of the world’s busiest single runway airport. [...]

www.gatwickairport.com Earlier this year, the British Airports Authority (BAA) was ordered that it must sell off some of its airports in order to break up its monopoly. Among the airports that had to be sold, Gatwick Airport was one of them. Now this airport is being auctioned off, and it looks like it may fetch [...]

Two out of the 5 parties interested in bidding for the Gatwick Airport have pulled out of the bidding only 6 weeks before the final bids are due, which poses a problem for Ferrovial, the majority owner of the airport. On Monday, Babcock and Brown and RREEF, the infrastructure fund of Deutsche Bank, confirmed that [...]

Hochtief, a German construction giant, has withdrawn their bid from the £2 billion auction of the Gatwick Airport, which is owned by the British Airports Authority, only leaving 5 bidders entering the second round. Analysts think that bids for the airport, which is the second largest airport in Britain, may increase to as much as [...]