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| MPs fear danger in queues at airports |
| Published: July 25, 2007, 7:02 pm |
| Tags: Uk News, The Airline Industry, Politics, Terrorism, Politics And Terrorism, Travel, Travel News |
| Queues in airport terminals pose a 'significant security threat' and could become terrorist targets, MPs have warned. |
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| Internet access for all on new Qantas planes |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 4:49 pm |
| Tags: Technology, Internet, The Airline Industry, Travel |
| The airline Qantas is to offer web access and email for all passengers on its new aircraft next year. |
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| City fearful over Heathrow problem, minister says |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 6:56 am |
| Tags: Business, Transport In The Uk, The Airline Industry, Travel, Business Travel |
| Excessive delays and concerns about the airport's sprawling layout could threaten London's status as one of the world's leading financial centres, new City minister Kitty Ussher has warned. |
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| Ryanair blames airport charges as it cuts winter flights from Stansted |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 6:30 pm |
| Tags: Business, The Airline Industry, Travel, Travel News |
| Low-cost carrier's profits rise by 20% Aviation watchdog ends long haul fare regulations |
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| BA fined 121.5m for price fixing |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 3:44 am |
| Tags: Business, The Airline Industry, Transport In The Uk, Money, British Airways, Travel, Travel News |
| 8am: Airline hit by record OFT penalty after it admits colluding with Virgin Atlantic over the surcharges added to ticket prices in response to rising oil price. by Fiona Walsh. |
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| BA fined 270m and now faces 300m lawsuit |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 6:57 pm |
| Tags: Uk News, The Airline Industry, British Airways, Business, Travel, Front Page News, Travel News |
| Virgin escapes punishment for its part in price fixing, but both airlines to be sued in class actions by passengers in UK and US. |
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| Leader: The high cost of cheap flights |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 6:57 pm |
| Tags: Travel, Travel News, Environment, Leaders, The Airline Industry, Comment, Comment Free |
| Leader: News that British Airways and Virgin Atlantic colluded to jack up airfares met with understandable outrage: how dare they add to the expense of flying? |
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| Row over dirty tricks led to decade of hostilities |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 6:56 pm |
| Tags: Uk News, The Airline Industry, British Airways, Travel, Travel News |
| A history of tensions between British Airways and Virgin Airlines. |
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| Another blow to image of 'world's favourite airline' |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 6:55 pm |
| Tags: Uk News, The Airline Industry, British Airways, Travel News, Travel |
| British Airways was facing a battle to restore its reputation among passengers yesterday after the price-fixing affair cast a shadow over its good name. |
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| How arch rivals colluded to hike up cost of air travel |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 6:55 pm |
| Tags: Uk News, The Airline Industry, British Airways, Travel News, Travel |
| Whistle blown on illicit contacts which led to soaring fuel levy. |
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| BAA denies seeking blanket ban on airport protest |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 7:03 pm |
| Tags: Environment, Travel Transport, Activists, Climate Change, Travel, The Airline Industry |
| Injunction request targets climate change activists Application opposed by Transport for London |
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| Dirty dealing: how the airlines colluded |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 6:49 pm |
| Tags: Business, The Airline Industry, British Airways, Transport In The Uk, Travel, Travel News |
| British Airways (BA) and Virgin Atlantic Airlines (VAA) are not alleged to have colluded with each other over the introduction of the long-haul passenger fuel surcharge (PFS) when it was first imposed in May 2004. |
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| Lionel Shriver on the Heathrow farce |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 6:55 pm |
| Tags: Terrorism, Columnists, The Airline Industry, Comment, Comment Free, British Airways, Travel, Travel News |
| Lionel Shriver: The danger is not terrorism, but the extravagant efforts to combat it. With farcical cancellations, delays and closures, air travel in the UK can't get much worse short of collapse |
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| BAA wins injunction to stop Heathrow protest |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 7:57 am |
| Tags: The Airline Industry, Uk News, Climate Change, Business, Travel News, Transport In The Uk, Travel |
| Airports operator succeeds in high court bid to ban direct action demonstration. |
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| George Monbiot: Because it is illegal, the climate camp is now also a protest for democracy |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 3:00 am |
| Tags: Environment, Travel, Activists, Climate Change, Comment, Columnists, The Airline Industry, Comment Free, Politics, Political Columnists, Green Politics, Business |
| George Monbiot: The ban on next week's Heathrow demonstration will not deter us. It will only boost the profile and raise the stakes. |
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