(AFX UK Focus) 2007-08-01 11:09 GMT: Brussels Airlines, Flybe launch codeshare accord on UK-Belgium routes (Interactive Investor)
BRUSSELS (Thomson Financial) - Belgian flag carrier Brussels Airlines and regional airline Flybe said that they will launch a codeshare agreement on flights between the UK and Belgium from Sept 2....more...Cheap Flights And Booze Make Brits Behave Badly (FOX 35 Orlando)
Cheap flights and alcohol are partly to blame for the increasing number of Britons who are arrested or taken to hospital in Eastern Europe, according to the Foreign Office....more... (AFX UK Focus) 2007-07-31 09:03 GMT: Nepal Airlines suspends international flights (Interactive Investor)
KATHMANDU (Thomson Financial) - Nepal Airlines is suspending all international flights for a week, with its two long-haul planes out of action with technical problems, the troubled airline said Tuesday....more... (AFX UK Focus) 2007-08-02 03:03 GMT: Powerful typhoon churns towards Japan (Interactive Investor)
TOKYO (Thomson Financial) - A powerful typhoon swept closer towards Japan on Thursday, bringing strong winds and heavy rains to southern islands and forcing airlines to cancel more than 100 flights....more... Q & A: British Airways and Virgin Atlantic price-fixing (The Scotsman)
The UK's Office of Fair Trading (OFT) said the airlines colluded over increases in fuel surcharges on long-haul flights. It fined BA a record £121.5 million. BA staff contacted Virgin Atlantic over the level at which fuel surcharges were to be set....more... British Airways fined $640 million for price fixing (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
British Airways (BA) has been fined a record $640 million for fixing ticket prices on flights between the UK and the USA....more... Fallout begins over airline price-fixing (Financial Times)
Sir Richard Branson?s Virgin Atlantic approached the US Department of Justice and the UK Office of Fair Trading in spring last year to confess its role in fixing the price of fuel surcharges for long-haul flights out of the UK....more... (AFX UK Focus) 2007-08-01 17:27 GMT: ROUNDUP BA fined 270 mln stg by US Dept of Justice, UK OFT for price fixing (Interactive Investor)
LONDON (Thomson Financial) - British Airways PLC has been fined a total of about 270 mln stg by US and UK competition authorities after it admitted colluding to fix the prices of fuel surcharges with Korean Air and Virgin Atlantic....more... Tourism: Call to fight UK climate change penguins (News Interactive)
A CLIMATE change campaign masterminded by environmentalists to stop British travellers making long-haul flights threatens to erode tourist numbers from the United Kingdom, the federal government says....more... |