The UK flag carrier and Ryanair have cancelled numerous flights amid significant snowfall in London. According to officials from the BAA, around 30 per cent of all scheduled departures at Heathrow airport had been cancelled on Sunday; about 850 flights left the normally overcrowded facility through the day, compared to 1,230 departures seen on a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

International Airlines Group, the parent of British Airways and Iberia, has published a rise in traffic during December. Premium-class travel was up by 13.6 per cent up on the same month a year earlier and non-premium traffic rose by 12 per cent. Passenger load factor was also up to 77.6 per cent, a rise of [...]

Top airline executives in the British Isles are once again urging the Government to axe the UK’s air passenger duty (APD) tax. Willie Walsh, the head official for International Airlines Group (IAG), the parent company of British Airways and Iberia, has united with Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary, Carolyn Mcall of easyJet and Steve Ridgeway, chief executive [...]

Consumer group Which? has revealed its latest list of the best airlines for travel to destinations around the world. Among carriers heading to the Spanish mainland and Balearics, which is the international region that host the largest number of British holidaymakers worldwide, Jet2.com took the top spot, followed by UK flag carrier British Airways, Monarch [...]

Bosses of four major airlines in the UK have slammed the government’s consultation over Air Passenger Duty, calling it a sham. Despite powerful figures in the travel industry repeatedly asking that the tax be scrapped, the government has announced that there will be no significant changes. Willie Walsh, chief executive of British Airways and Iberia [...]

Low-cost airline Ryanair has begun paying airport workers a bonus for catching passengers with oversized and overweight hand luggage. The company’s contracted employees at John Lennon Airport in Liverpool now have a financial incentive for charging passengers for checked baggage that may have previously been overlooked as being acceptable as hand baggage despite being too [...]

Low-cost carrier Ryanair has said that it would continue along a path of expansion as it announces a significant rise in profits for the second quarter. Results were up by 23 per cent, and the airline said it expected full year results to be better than previously forecast. In the three months ending 30 September, [...]