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Virgin launches campaign to spoil BA’s party
British Airways, a business competitor of Virgin Atlantic has plans to sign a transatlantic combined venture with American Airlines. Towards this attempt, this week British Airways is filing an anti-trust immunity application to the United States Transport Department so that they can actualize a
by Dave Humphries August 10th, 2008
Airport delays on the increase
If you tend to be irritable about delays in air travel, a new report issued by the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) suggests that you’d best avoid heading to Dubai for your holiday and choose Guernsey instead. Less than ...
by Andrew Mayer June 17th, 2008
Gatwick improves punctuality as Heathrow plummets
Heathrow experience more late flight departures in the first three months of 2008 than in any other time period since heightened security measures were introduced in August 2006. Delays were significantly worse than in the same time period in 2007, and ...
by Dave Bess June 16th, 2008
Bad publicity for Heathrow
Airport operator BAA continued to receive negative publicity for its management of Heathrow airport today from IATA as well as other critics whom have come to call the airport under BAA’s management, “Heathrow ...
by Katy Davies June 2nd, 2008
Heathrow smuggler convicted
A woman from Mexico was sent to jail on Friday for drug smuggling. She received a sentence of nine and a half years. The sentencing was the result of a drug discovery at Heathrow Airport in early March. Police found nine ...
by Katy Davies May 24th, 2008
Campbell could be charged for T5 assault
Reports indicate that supermodel Naomi Campbell is likely to have to face charges for her behavior at Heathrow’s Terminal 5 last month. The supermodel with the legendary temper was asked to leave her British Airways flight because one item of her ...
by Andrew Mayer May 23rd, 2008
BA officers heroes in crash landing
On January 17th British Airways flight 38 from Beijing crash landed at Heathrow. An internal investigation into the accident recently revealed that the crash could have been a disaster if it hadn’t been for the actions of the officers on ...
by Emily Welch May 21st, 2008
Virgin Atlantic’s Terminal 3 success
This week, Virgin Atlantic released its performance results and the feedback it had received from customers using the airline’s new location in Terminal 3 at Heathrow Airport. The results showed an increase of four percent in the number of long haul ...
by Paul Fenrich May 19th, 2008
Queen Elizabeth opens T5
London’s Heathrow International Airport is the busiest travel hub in the world, and with the record delays frustrating passengers to no end, a new terminal to ease some of the stress in the heavily over-crowded terminal is, according to some, ...
by Dave Smith March 18th, 2008
They had to exist: proponents of the Heathrow expansion
With the most media noise being made by protesters about the proposed new third runway at Heathrow International Airport, a pro-Heathrow group has struck back with a poll that says while 30 percent of nearby residents do in fact oppose ...
by Dave Bess October 10th, 2007