A recent report has said that children held at Heathrow’s border checkpoints are forced to deal with “degrading and disgraceful” conditions. The comments come this week via the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB), a special group set up by government officials five years ago to oversee the conditions in which immigration detainees face at Heathrow airport’s [...]

More than 2 million public sector workers are set to stage the largest strike for a generation on Wednesday. Extensive disruptions at airports, schools, government agencies and ports are expected alongside more than 1,000 public employee demonstrations expected to take place throughout the United Kingdom today. The union-prompted action comes in response to recently proposed government [...]

Europe’s busiest airport has announced that a special terminal would be put in place to accommodate next summer’s Olympics. Heathrow officials said that the extra terminal would be set up in a cargo section of the airport and would be utilised solely by athletes, coaches and other official personnel departing the global event. Dubbed the [...]

Hotels near London’s Heathrow International airport have recently seen a sizable spike in rates, according to a new report. The news comes via corporate service firm HRG, which has reported that over the last six months that the average nightly rate for Heathrow hotels was just over £110, an increase of six per cent over [...]

Bestselling writer Tony Parsons will be a temporary resident this week at Heathrow airport ahead of his new ‘airport fiction’ novel. Mr Parsons, who is best known for his Man and Boy novel, will be lurking in the terminals of London’s largest airport looking for characters to be featured in Departures: Seven Stories from Heathrow. [...]

UK airports are preparing for a mad rush this weekend as schools break up and families jet off on their summer getaways. Dreary weather in Britain and a flurry of special offers from travel agents has encouraged many people who were planning on a ‘staycation’ in the UK to pack their bags for sunnier climes. [...]

The scene on a Middle East Airlines plane erupted into chaos this weekend when passengers were forced to wait almost seven hours on the runway. Two take off slots were missed from London Heathrow Airport because of thunderstorms, prompting a Lord of the Flies-style mutiny, according to reports. The Beirut-bound plane was originally scheduled to [...]

MPs have said that a ‘snow supremo’ is necessary to avoid repeating crippling winter travel delays seen late last year. The plea comes via the Transport Select Committee, which after a heavy investigation into last year’s series of snow-related debacles that major cultural changes must be implemented. Among changes, the group said that airports needed [...]

A watchdog group has said that children are still being detained overnight in conditions deemed ‘wholly unsuitable’ at Heathrow Airport. The news comes via the independent monitoring board for the airport (IMB), which said that children were among some 15,000 individuals held in 2010 by UK immigration officials in rooms without proper ventilation, no natural [...]

Following airport chaos last month, many passengers are still waiting for lost luggage. The news comes after major snowstorms wreaked havoc at Manchester airport in late December, creating a backlog of lost bags so large they’ve had to be stored in the airport’s cargo centre as terminal space has run out. The majority of remaining [...]