The London Daily News

Mayor Boris Johnson has told bungling Tube chiefs to get their act together after a week of hell on London Underground.

He was reported to be furious during face-to-face meetings with Transport Commissioner Peter Hendy and LU managing director Mike Brown.

Thousands of passengers had to be led through ...

By Paula Planelles Manzanaro

The installation of electronic migration controls, known as “e-gates”, at Heathrow airport will be delayed until the results of an investigation which has caused turmoil at the UK Border Agency last autumn. The E-Gates would reduce queues of up to three hours ...

Travel Desk

Heathrow airport’s operator, BAA came under a barrage of criticism for cancelling flights on Sunday because of 10cm of snow, and has confirmed that flights on Monday resumed to fly out stranded passengers.

Hundreds of flights were cancelled on ...

News Desk

With mounting fears that there will be major traffic disruption during the Olmpic Games, Transport for London (TfL) and Olympics organisers have decided to open the “Games Lanes” during off-peak times. Originally only 80,000 people involved in the Olympics, such as athletes, officials, sponsors ...

New Desk

Travellers to London during the Olympic Games are today learning of the industrial strife that is engulfing London, with renewed threats by the RMT the tube union to reject a pay deal for its members during the summer games.

RMT General Secretary Bob Crow ...

Travel Desk

Flights taking off and landing at Heathrow will be cut by up to a fifth during the Olympic Games, to avoid standstill at the world's busiest airport. Every airport in the South East of London will be regulated as London will have to face ...

By Paula Planelles Manzanaro

Heathrow’s future could be threatened if the construction of a new hub airport in the Thames Estuary goes ahead, leading airlines have warned. More than 75,000 workers at Heathrow and those employers in businesses dependent on the airport, such ...

Travel News Desk

The Prime Minister David Cameron is believed according to a report in the Daily Telegraph to announce a consultation on the creation of a new airport for London on the Thames, also known as "Boris island airport".

The Conservative party blocked plans for ...

Travel Desk

Heathrow airport’s capacity reached a record of 69.4m passengers in 2011, increasing 5.5 per cent compared with 2010. The airport is at 99.2pc capacit with 476,197 flights in 2011, when the annual limit is 480,000. Last month was the busiest with December the busiest in 2011. ...