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Night flights over London to be allowed during Games

11.11.09
Latest: London residents fear a 'relentless noise nightmare' during the Olympics as air industry bosses consider using night flights to cope with the surge in travel to the capital... more

Give London's air passengers a real choice

22.10.09
Britain's tourism industry has been in decline for over two years now thanks to a combination of high and increasing airport charges and the regressive Airport Passenger Duty, introduced by Gordon Brown... more

Adonis U-turn on Hoon airport plan

13.10.09
Transport secretary Lord Adonis has scrapped his predecessor Geoff Hoon’s plans to take London’s major airports into “special administration” if BAA got into financial difficulty... more

EasyJet fighting Gatwick's 'rip-off' fees

26.06.09
Travellers using Gatwick are being ripped off, the biggest airline at London's second airport has warned... more

Flying more punctual thanks to recession

12.06.09
London's airports and the airlines that use them have found a solution to the congestion and chaos they cause for paying passengers: the recession ... more

Watchdog unlawful over BAA– easyJet

17.03.09
The Civil Aviation Authority has been accused of giving special treatment to BAA, which last year won a huge rise in airline charges — airport fees that are routinely passed on in higher passenger fares... more

Airports could be fined for keeping passengers waiting

09.03.09
The Government has demanded the end of "Heathrow Hassle" by outlining rules forcing airports to put passengers first... more

Passengers put first in Hoon shake-up of airport rules

09.03.09
The government has demanded the end of the Heathrow Hassle with a shake-up of the queues and regulation at leading airports... more

Bad deal for the Spanish but they deserve some sympathy

25.02.09
Commentary: Little Englanders can be excused for sniggering at this cautionary tale of corporate comeuppance... more

Third runway plan could still be halted, says watchdog

27.01.09
A third runway at Heathrow may never be built despite being given the go-ahead by the Governmnt, says Britain's environmental watchdog... more

Stansted will face big fines for repeat of security breach

09.12.08
Aviation: Stansted Airport will be hit for millions of pounds in fines in the future if Monday's huge security fiasco is repeated... more

Threat of legal bid over forced Gatwick sale

25.09.08
BAA is threatening to launch a legal challenge to the forced sale of Gatwick airport... more

Now Lloyds sends in the old-fashioned bankers

18.09.08
It's painful to say so, but HBOS really doesn’t deserve to survive as an independent bank... more

Branson to bid as Gatwick is put up for sale at £2 billion

17.09.08
Gatwick airport has been put up for sale for an estimated £2 billion... more

Scores stuck as another tour operator goes bust

15.09.08
Hundreds of British holidaymakers are stranded in Turkey after another tour operator went bust... more

Anger of families after airline collapses at 3am

12.09.08
Up to 85,000 British holidaymakers were left stranded after the UK's third biggest tour operator went bust... more

300,000 hit by collapse of holiday giant XL

12.09.08
Almost 300,000 holidaymakers have been hit by the biggest ever collapse of a tour operator in Britain... more

Thousands stranded as budget airline folds

29.08.08
Hundreds of passengers have been stranded and tens of thousands more left with worthless tickets after the collapse of the transatlantic budget airline Zoom... more

Comment: BAA break-up is good for London

20.08.08
The Competition Commission has, as expected, said that the BAA airports monopoly must be broken... more

Ryanair grounds quarter of its planes at Stansted

17.07.08
Ryanair is to stand down a quarter of its fleet at Stansted and close seven continental European bases before Christmas... more

Silverjet staff axed as rescue fails

13.06.08
All 300 employees of collapsed business class-only airline Silverjet have been laid off... more

Half of flights late in dire Heathrow hassle

12.06.08
The airport is grinding to a halt with close to every second flight departure running late... more

Heathrow a joke, says airline chief

02.06.08
Heathrow was branded "a national embarrassment" by the head of the world's airline community... more

Failing BAA 'will be forced to sell Gatwick for £3 billion'

22.04.08
A £3 billion sale of Gatwick airport came a step closer following a damning official report into BAA... more

Comment: break up BAA

22.04.08
Today's announcement from the Competition Commission argues that BAA's ownership of seven airports, including Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted, is not serving airlines or customers well... more

Official ... Heathrow gets worse all the time

16.04.08
Official figures have confirmed the existence of "Heathrow hassle" and showed more planes are late at London's largest airport than at any time since its privatisation 20 years ago... more

Comment: Aviation industry is under fire

11.03.08
The deal between the Civil Aviation Authority and airports operator BAA on landing charges is bad news for holidaymakers... more

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