The closure of Heathrow Airport on Sunday has caused travel misery for many flying to and from Kuala Lumpur on Malaysia Airlines. A flight due to take passengers from London to the Malaysian capital was stranded at Heathrow on Saturday as the airport was forced to close down because of snow. Another Malaysian Airlines flight [...]

The ban on taking liquids through airport security will begin to be phased out in April next year according to Philip Hammond, the country’s minister for transport. However, a full European wide phasing out of the restrictions will not happen until 2013. Currently passengers are not allowed to board an aircraft with containers greater than [...]

Budget airline bmi is looking to go head-to-head with British Airways as it announces plans to run a daily service from London to Libya. The new competition between the two rival carriers could lead to great prices for customers.   The new bmi route is set to run between London Heathrow Airport and Tripoli Airport. [...]

Europe’s third biggest airline, British Airways (BA), said that it will operate the majority of its flights from Heathrow Airport after a second walkout of cabin crew ended at midnight. BA cancelled a hundred of its flights when its staff made a three-day strike this week and last. The walkout, which began on 20 March, was eventually followed [...]

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 [...]

Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) has expressed no shock at Chancellor Alistair Darling’s pre-election budget, but rather voiced satisfaction over the help he extended towards small enterprises that would greatly benefit many of ABTA’s members. The chancellor declared that financial institutions with large public sector ownership will lend £41 billion to small firms in [...]

British Airways (BA) is planning to squeeze its passengers into planes that offer less legroom and no in-flight meal service to lessen flight cancellations during the scheduled three-day strike by its 12,000 cabin crew. BA spokesman James von der Fecht said that the company’s plan includes substituting its Airbus SAS A319 aircrafts with rented A321 [...]

Passengers using the Heathrow Airport will soon be enjoying the latest boarding pass technology offered by Continental Airlines. Continental will be the first airline to be offering paperless boarding for its flight from the UK to the US. Under the initiative, passengers will be given a boarding pass directly to their mobile phones or PDAs, [...]

Britain’s Got Talent singing sensation Susan Boyle recently collapsed at London’s Heathrow Airport. Boyle fell unconscious when she was waiting for her flight to Nice. Reports said that Boyle fainted while she was inside the British Airways Club Lounge. She was then given medical attention and was later allowed to board her flight to Nice. [...]

Apparently, armed police stormed a plane at London Heathrow Airport just recently due to fears of a terror threat. The police swarmed the Dubai-bound Emirates plane as it was taxiing on the tarmac before take off. Passengers that were on the plane were terrified as they watched police, which were apparently armed with aromatic weapons, [...]