Posts Tagged ‘air travel’

Air passengers to get a new champion

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

Good news for holiday travellers as the Transport Secretary has announced new Government plans for a new champion for air travellers when things go wrong with flights. Rail watchdog, Passenger Focus, will become responsible for upholding passengers rights.

In further good news for holiday travellers and a further rebuke to the Civil Aviation Authority, the minister Geoff Hoon said that the CAA has to put travellers interests first and do more to meet environmental obligations. Feedback from travellers has been that they want more toilets and baggage carousels and these are the issues the CAA will be expected to address.

British Airways to reduce capacity this summer

Monday, March 9th, 2009

British Airways has given another warning that its revenues in the coming financial period will fall by approximately 5% and would as a result be posting another loss next year.  BA’s response to this and the falling passenger numbers caused by the recession is to reduce capacity this summer by up to 2%.

The company, which expects losses of £150million in 2008/9, is said to be considering a pay freeze and voluntary redundancies to see it through this difficult trading period.

Ryanair moves to online check in only

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

In a drive to reduce costs and cut air fares Ryanair has announced that this year it will close all of its check in desks, moving to online check in.

Government to track your holidays?

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

The Government have announced the intention to log all foreign travel of all Britons for up to 10 years.  Among the information to be collected are itineraries, credit card details and contact information for all 250 million rail, air and ferry journeys in to and out of Britain each year. Ministers claim the move will help protect borders and fight crime and terrorism. 

While we are all supportive of the fight against terrorism is tracking our holiday plans really a way to achieve this, as a spokesman for campaign group NO2ID said “you have to ask yourself just how free is this country”.