Third Sydney Route Announced Today Bringing Gold Coast Five Flights Per Day

Tiger Airways announced it will launch flights between Sydney and Gold Coast from this December.  Read more...

Thousands of British Airways staff voted to strike from 22 Dec to 2 Jan, a move that will impact the travel plans of a million passengers. Its a no-brainer that this is one of the busiest time of the year for the travel industry, and this strike will lead to cancellations of most of the flights. This has been triggered by a dispute over changing working conditions including a cut in the number of staff on board each flight, a freeze on pay and new recruits getting less favourable contracts, something deemed essential for British Airways to overcome its reported annual losses.  Read more...

easyJet, Europe’s leading low-fares airline, today became the first airline to call for tough, mandatory emission standards for aircraft that would lead to a 40% reduction in CO2 emissions from the next generation of aircraft.  Read more...

Passengers will check in at Heathrow’s Terminal 2 for the last time on Monday as, after 54 years of service, it is closing to make way for a stunning £1 billion replacement.  Read more...

China Eastern Airlines, the country’s third biggest carrier, said yesterday that it would complete its merger transaction with Shanghai Airlines by the end of the year.  Read more...

25 November 2009

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