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Mayor tells tube bosses: "Pull your socks up" 
Posted on  22-10-2010 04:52:26 AM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  [email protected]

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 ...


  
"Inadequate" aviation links to cost London £14 billion 
Posted on  22-09-2011 10:06:54 AM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  Transport Desk


-  Heathrow provides fewer daily flights to emerging markets compared to Frankfurt and Paris
-  No flights from Heathrow to China's main manufacturing centre

Transport Desk


The coalition Government is under fire again over its aviation strategy with a report by Frontier Economics claiming ...

  
Corfu – An Exquisite Greek Island Destination 
Posted on  01-09-2011 09:21:42 AM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  Anastasia Paphitis

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 ...


  
Government slammed for not having a "coherent aviation policy" 
Posted on  28-06-2011 09:24:22 AM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  News Desk


-  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 ...


  
RMT fail to disrupt morning commute 
Posted on  20-06-2011 11:11:46 AM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  Travel Desk

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 ...


  
London airports "congestion charge" being proposed 
Posted on  16-06-2011 10:15:07 AM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  Travel Desk

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 ...


  
Strikes are on; Tube travel from Sunday will be hit 
Posted on  15-06-2011 03:31:05 AM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  Travel Desk

Travel Desk

Strikes scheduled for Sunday on the Tube are on, with last minute talks collapsing in deadlock, which will affect travellers to Wimbledon on Monday the first day of the All-England tennis championship.


The strikes on the Tube called by the Rail, Maritime ...

  
Barnet MP claims Northern Line upgrade "less disruptive" 
Posted on  15-06-2011 01:08:57 AM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  Local Politics Desk

Local Politics Desk

MP for Chipping Barnet, Theresa Villiers, has cautiously welcomed today’s announcement by Transport for London that upgrade work on the Northern Line will begin later this year.

Under the PPP set up by Labour, Barnet residents would have had to ...


  
75 flights put at risk by mobiles and laptops 
Posted on  15-06-2011 12:00:58 PM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  News Desk


News Desk

A confidential report leaked by a member of the International Air Transport Association has shown that the use of laptops and mobiles disrupted flight instruments of planes during the critical stages of flight, the takeoff and landing.


An IATA spokesman said:

"Our ...


  
Wasted days on the Tube 
Posted on  14-06-2011 05:00:49 AM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  Travel Desk


Travel Desk

The Managing Director of the London Underground today publicly
acknowledged problems with the performance of the London Underground
over the past year that have resulted in an increase in lost customer
hours on almost every Tube line.


Speaking before the London Assembly's Transport ...

  
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