1) Bmi has announced
that from
the start of the Summer schedule on the 30th March 2008,
the daily service from Heathrow to Inverness will be
cancelled and flights between Heathrow and Leeds
Bradford will reduce to 4 times daily with the
suspension of the late evening flight, despite these
cuts Bmi has doubled the number of services between
Heathrow & Moscow Domodedovo from the 30th March 2008 and
the new time table will also see additional flights
between Heathrow and both Manchester & Durham Tees
Valley.
2) Ryanair The no-frills
carrier is to open 50 new routes in total this year
bringing its network for Summer 2008 up to more than 600
routes. New services from the UK will run from
Birmingham, Durham Tees Valley, Edinburgh, Liverpool,
Stansted, Manchester &
Newquay.
The new routes
from UK airports are:
Birmingham to
Barcelona (Girona), Marseille &
Pisa
Durham Tees
Valley to Alicante
Edinburgh to
Alicante, Bremen, Frankfurt, Marseille &
Pisa
Liverpool to
Malaga & Nantes
Stansted to
Angouleme & Faro
Manchester to
Barcelona (Girona), Bremen, Marseille &
Milan
Newquay to
Alicante & Barcelona (Girona)
3) Eos
Airlines passengers can use an 8 minute
helicopter link between Manhattan and New York JFK
airport from the 7th January 2008. The business class
only airline has inked a deal with US helicopters
providing complimentary flights from downtown New York
to JFK for passengers holding unrestricted EOS tickets.
Business travellers will be able to access helicopter
services from Manhattan Heliport (Wall Street) or East
34th Street Heliport, where security and luggage
screening will take place and bags can be checked
through to the final destination.
4) Virgin Atlantic Boeing
747 is to fly using Biofuel on a demonstration flight
next month. The 747 will fly from Heathrow to Amsterdam
with no passengers on board, using a "truly
sustainable" type of Biofuel that does not compete with
food and fresh water resources according to the airline.
Virgin claims it will be the first time that a
commercial aircraft has run Biofuel in-flight and is
part of an initiative by airlines and manufacturer
Boeing to discover sources of sustainable aircraft fuel
for the future.
5) Airport Baggage Allowance The one
piece of hand luggage restriction has been lifted
at the following airports:
Aberdeen,
Birmingham, Cambridge, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow,
Heathrow, Inverness, Kirkwall, London
City, Manchester, Newcastle, Plymouth, Prestwick,
Southampton, Southend, Stansted, Stornoway, Sumburgh
& Wick.
Passengers can now keep laptops
in their bags at Heathrow & Glasgow. New
procedures for security screening have been introduced
that allow passengers to stack bags in trays for x-ray
machines. Previous restrictions limiting liquids to
100ml containers in transparent plastic bags have not
changed.
6) Virgin Atlantic - the future of
travel; as the new check in experience at London Heathrow's
Terminal 3 is now open to explore. The new check in area is
modern, spacious and welcoming, creating a hassle free
passenger journey. Customers can use our simple self
service kiosks within the terminal to check in and print
their boarding cards. Everything is in one place,
and staff are on hand to offer help and
guide you, to
make your time in the terminal as relaxing as
possible.
7) Etihad Airlines is to add a daily flight from
Dublin to Abu Dhabi from 30th March 2008.
8) China Airlines - Taiwan's largest carrier has
signed a contract with Airbus for 14 A350-900s with
another six on option.
9) Lufthansa is to start a new twice-daily
service from Frankfurt to Bergen-Norway's second largest
city on 30th March 2008.
10) American Airlines will increase its service
from Dallas/Fort Worth to Roswell, New Mexico by adding
a third daily route, with passengers able to earn 60,000
Bonus miles between the US and the UK if they book and
fly by 15th May 2008.
11) Emirates will launch daily services from
Dubai to Cape Town from 30th March 2008 using Airbus
A330-200 aircraft.
12) SAS adds extra daily flight between
Heathrow and Copenhagen between the 31st March and
October 24th 2008.
13) Butterfly Hotels is to manage the 120-room
Express by Holiday Inn, Banbury with a June 2008 launch.
14) Ebbsfleet Opened
29th January Heralding the new Eurostar
station just off the M25 as the Gateway from Southern
and Eastern England to mainland Europe. Eurostar
travellers enjoy a Business Class check-in of just 10
minutes and up to 2 hours' working time onboard and
their journeys generate one-tenth of the amount of
carbon dioxide produced by an equivalent flight.
Ebbsfleet International is well signed from Junction 2
of the M25 and lies close to Bluewater shopping centre.
Eurostar offers 7 services a day to Paris and 5 a day to
Brussels, with non-stop journey times of 2 hours 5
minutes and 1 hour 41 minutes respectively. Eurostar is
the high-speed train service linking St Pancras
International, Ebbsfleet International, Ashford
International, Paris, Brussels, Lille, Calais,
Disneyland Resort Paris, Avignon and the French
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