Gatwick bosses have clashed with a watchdog over claims that the airport tried to 'distort' security queue figures by rushing passengers through... more
Work on the skyscraper that will become the City's tallest building will resume after developers stopped construction when they ran out of funds... more
Air transport bosses have demanded to know why a crucial ash cloud monitoring plane was not being used as thousands of holidaymakers faced travel chaos... more
Airport operator BAA's response to the pre-Christmas snow was 'initially ineffective' leading to 'distress' to passengers, a report into the December 2010 travel chaos said... more
Threat of flight restrictions from volcanic ash will be reduced with the introduction of new measures allowing planes to travel at higher ash densities
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Doesn’t your heart bleed for Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary? He has stopped on the verge of refusing reimbursement to stranded passengers of their hotel and food bills... more
The Icelandic volcano that turned nearly all of Britain into a no-fly zone for six days is still active, but planes are now returning to the skies... more
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
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
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
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
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