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New pre-pay baggage facility from easyJet Friday, June 20th 2008

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to the Travel News RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Suggestions, comments and feedback welcome.If you are travelling with easyJet and want to pay for excess baggage weight, then you can now do it before you arrive at the airport thanks to a new system being [...]

Posted in Airline News, Airport News, Easyjet Flights, Holiday Ideas, New Technology


New Sharm el Sheikh Flights for Jet2 Tuesday, June 10th 2008

Jet2.com has announced that it will begin flights to Sharm el Sheikh in February.
The new route will be between Leeds Bradford Airport and Sharm el Sheikh making the first link from the Yorkshire region to the Egyptian resort.
Sharm el Sheikh has year round sunshine and is home to some of the best beaches with crystal [...]

Posted in Airline News, Airport News, Jet2 Flights


Heathrow to Receive More Airbus A380 flights Wednesday, June 4th 2008

London Heathrow is going to be having an increased number of services involving the new Airbus A380’s.
A total of 11 services will be flying into Heathrow 4 times a week according to Singapore Airlines who now own a fleet of the superjumbos.
From July 16th, the route, Singapore to London will have additional departures on Monday’s, [...]

Posted in Airline News, Airport News, Longhaul flights


More Airlines are Increasing their Fuel Surcharges Monday, June 2nd 2008

Two large airlines have now increased their fuel surcharges on passenger fares. Flyglobespan and Virgin Atlantic are the latest in a long line of airlines to charge passengers more.
On May 22nd the price of one barrel of oil went up to £68.85 meaning the airlines had no choice but to increase their surcharges.
The prices on [...]

Posted in Airline News, British Airways, Customer News, Environment, Virgin Atlantic


BA longhaul flights move decided Friday, May 30th 2008

British Airways has decided to move the remaining long-haul flights  from Terminal 4 to Terminal 5 of London Heathrow in two seperate stages.
The decision was made together  with airport operator BAA that a number of the remaining flights will be moved on September 17th 2008. Flights moving on this day include ones flying to Mumbai, [...]

Posted in Airline News, Airport News, BAA, British Airways


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