British Airways is blaming soaring high oil prices for a further increase in its fuel surcharges. Thi means surcharges have now risen to a maximum of £218 (€277) return for long haul.
The price hike will be added to all tickets bought from this Tuesday 3rd June 2008.
The airline said it will also increase its fuel surcharges by […]
American Airlines has just announced that is pulling out of its Stansted-New York route after just nine months.
The airline is cancelling daily flights which launched last October on July 2.
The decision came following the downfall of US business class airlines MAXjet and Eos which both flew from Essex Airport to New York.
This is the second […]
Budget airline Ryanair has just announced that it is adding five new routes as part of its expanded European winter programme. Brand new flight destinations include routes from Bournemouth to Milan and Paris and from Glasgow to Faro, Malaga and Tenerife. In total, 14 new routes will be introduced including services to four new destinations: Lille in France […]
If you’re travelling to Australia over the next few months, you might want to check your flight tickets, as the rising price of fuel has forced Australian airline Qantas to ground a number of its domestic flights from July and rethink its international schedule.
Qantas chief executive Geoff Dixon said the airline plans to cut some […]
The soaring price of fuel is making waves across the airline industry with BA boss Willie Walsh coming out this week saying that many airlines would not survive a life-threatening combination of expensive fuel and a drop-off in demand as passenger numbers decline due to expensive fares and dwindling consumer confidence.
The story is the same […]
OpenSkies, the subsidiary carrier of British Airways has won the right to begin flights from the Continent to the US.
The carrier will start offering flights from Paris Orly Airport to New York JFK from June, following approval from the US Department of Transportation.
OpenSkies will be able to begin selling tickets and will begin taking bookings […]
A man who was refused a seat on a five-hour jetBlue flight and told to “hang out” in the plane’s toilet has sued the airline for $2 million (€1,296,677.46 million) on the grounds of “extreme humiliation”.
The passenger in question, Gokhan Mutlu was flying from San Diego to New York in February, when he was told […]
One in three customers who book their flights online are being conned by confusing adverts, according to a new report by the European Commission. A check on hundreds of airline and travel agency websites found “serious” problems such as hidden charges on one in three of the sites monitored. Airlines and travel companies have been […]
In a BBC interview, Don Langford, the head of customer services Europe for American Airlines this week branded Heathrow Airport as “a bit of a dump”.
Adding insult to injury he said: “the airport was no longer bursting at the seams because the seams have burst”.
He didn’t pull his punches either when he said that Heathrow is […]
Ryanair is to further increase fees for checking in at the airport and for carrying luggage in the hold.
The budget airline is threatening to add further increases until half of all passengers use the internet to check-in.
Rates are due to rise from May 5 from £6 to £8 for checking in baggage while the airport […]