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The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is going to allow BAA to increase landing charges.
The plans mean that BAA will be able to raise charges by 15.6% at Heathrow and 8.2% at Gatwick over the next 2 years.
This is likely to lead to higher ticket prices as airlines will have to pay £11.97 per passenger to [...]

For the first time, the annual number of passengers passing through UK regional airports has exceeded 100 million.
The CAA have released figures that show this is 3 times more than those who passed through in 1990. The strongest increase is coming from passengers wishing to travel to international destinations.
Most regional airports offer daily scheduled flights [...]

Business travellers have expressed their concern about the idea of in-flight mobile calls. Only 16% of travellers said that they would like mobiles to be used on aircrafts, compared to 56% that said they didn’t want it.
The plans were to take affect next year and would involve passengers being able to send and receive phone [...]

Flyglobespan have had their transatlantic license suspended after the CAA revealed that the airline was not meeting requirements.
Flyglobespan are now under strict rules to take routes nearer to Iceland and Greenland when flying to Canada and the USA. This however, increases flight times. The requirements that Flyglobespan were not meeting included maintenance requirements and other [...]