The London Daily News

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. ...

Travel Desk

In an escalation in the war of words between London Underground and tube drivers union Aslef, Mike Brown the Managing Director for London Underground in a  letter to The Guardian said that "Londoners and businesses would rightly never accept us "bribing" out staff to come to ...

By Anastasia Paphitis

Described by Homer as a ‘rich and beautiful land’, the Greek Ionian island of Corfu has delighted the senses of its inhabitants and visitors for centuries.  With a rich history deeply entwined in ancient Greek mythology and later subject to numerous battling civilisations, the ...

-  60 pc of Heathrow flights "stuck" in holding patterns

News Desk

The Coalition Government is being put under renewed pressure today to look again at its rigid stance of opposing expansion to Heathrow airport, and supporting high-speed rail links with news that ...

Travel Desk

The planned industrial action on the tubes have not resulted in any significant delays in the tube with London Underground claiming there was "minor service alterations" this morning.

The strike action began at 21:00hrs on Sunday night and ran until 03:00hrs today, but only  occurred ...

Travel Desk

London airports who run above 75% capacity should have a tax imposed on them similar to a congestion charge, according to a collective of regional airports lobbying the Chancellor George Osborne to impose a higher rate of air passenger duty tax on all flights ...