Transportation in United Kingdom
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UNITED KINGDOM, 2017/06/02
Passengers faced a third day of disruption at Heathrow on Monday as British Airways (BA) cancelled short-haul flights next a world computer crash that unions blamed on the outsourcing of IT services to India.
The embattled airline said it was cancelling 13 short-haul flights from Heathrow Airport, Europe’s busiest, but was aiming to operate a full long-haul schedule from the hub and was operating a full service from Gatwick Airport.
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UNITED KINGDOM, 2015/11/13
The London Taxi Company (LTC) unveiled the new design for its next generation zero emission capable Black Cab, the TX5, at a VIP event celebrating creative industries and design held at Lancaster Home, London, as part of the national visit to the UK by Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The TX5 design concept captures the spirit of completed generations of LTC models such as the Fairway series and draws on additional than sixty years of style that has made the Black Cab an iconic sight on the streets of London. While maintaining recognisable key features, the new zero emission capable TX5 has been updated to reflect the needs of today’s passengers and the move towards a low-carbon economy.
The prototype of the new model was unveiled in the presence of the Chinese President Xi Jinping, who is on a four-day national visit to the UK, and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
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UNITED KINGDOM, 2014/09/12
Eastern Airways, Europe’s leading provider of fixed wing air services for the oil and gas industry, will offer non-stop flights between Norwich International Airport and Aberdeen on Sundays with a additional convenient later departure time from 14 September 2014.
The Sunday service will depart Norwich at 6.15pm, arriving in Aberdeen at 7.35pm. From Aberdeen, Sunday flights will depart at 8pm, arriving in Norwich at 9.20pm. It is as well expected to attract leisure travellers, but will particularly appeal to oil workers heading offshore early on a Monday morning and business commuters with Monday morning meetings.
The Sunday service will continue to complement Eastern Airways’ year-round choice of weekday departures with up to three flights a day from Norwich to Aberdeen.
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AUSTRIA, 2014/06/01
The number of flights running between Salzburg and London is set to increase this coming winter, British Airways has announced.
From the end of October there will be a daily flight between Salzburg and London's Gatwick airport.
From the middle of December, as the winter season really kicks in, up to nine flights per week will run between Salzburg and London. Five of these flights will be run during the week and two will run on both Saturdays and Sundays, an additional four services compared to the previous winter.
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CANADA, 2013/08/24
Holidaymakers in the north of England and Scotland have been given a boost by the launch of new transatlantic services by Jet2.com.
The low cost airline is running a handful of direct flights and package holidays to the US next spring, flying from Leeds Bradford and Newcastle airports to New York, and from Leeds Bradford and Glasgow to Boston.
It will as well be provide a service from Leeds Bradford and Newcastle to the Canadian city of Toronto.
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UNITED KINGDOM, 2013/07/22
London's Heathrow Airport has a problem: It's too small. One proposed solution? Raze a few villages inclunding a 15th century barn, some homes and a pesky lake for a new runway.
According to the UK's Department for Transport, request for air travel in South East England will rise to 300 million passengers per year by 2030. Current request is 127 million. The debate over how to expand capacity has two basic camps: Those who want to add a third runway, and those who want to build a new airport.
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UNITED KINGDOM, 2013/07/03
British Airways is deploying on trial a new electronic bag tag that could do away with the need to have a new paper tag each time you fly. Once checked in, customers just need to hold their smartphone over the electronic tag, which automatically updates with a incomparable barcode containing their flight details and an easy-to-see view of their bag's destination.
Not requiring a traditional paper tag to be printed and attached, customers can again save precious time by having their electronic tag quickly scanned at the bag drop, going straight through security to relax before catching their flight.
It is intended that the patent-pending hi-tech tag can be used time and time again.
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UNITED KINGDOM, 2013/05/31
Maersk Oil UK reported Wednesday that its Gryphon FPSO (floating production, storage and offloading) vessel is back in production next a major overhaul. Maersk added that it expects that, once amount the Gryphon fields associated with the FPSO become fully operational over the coming months, production will ramp up to additional than 20,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (bopd).
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UNITED KINGDOM, 2013/03/22
International accountant and shipping adviser Moore Stephens says the UK Budget 2013 contains generally good news for the shipping sector. Measures which will have an impact on the shipping industry include a reduction in the major rate of UK corporation tax from 23% for the year ended 31 March 2014 to 21% from April 2014. A further reduction to 20% from April 2015 has instantly been announced.
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EGYPT, 2013/03/17
Egypt’s Ministry of Civil Aviation and Icon, a British airline company, are ready to complete assessing strategies to build a $20 billion new ‘airport city’ on 2288 acres of land at Cairo airport by mid-April this year. This is according to Minister of Civil Aviation, Wail al-Madawi, who said these plans comprise a number of restaurants and hotels, intended to accommodate next expansions in Cairo airport’s passenger capacity, which is expected to reach 70 million.
