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Transportation in Northern Europe

  • Passengers arrive with their luggage in Terminal 5 of London’s Heathrow Airport

    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.

  • Londons black taxis to be replaced by new electric cabs

    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.

  • Kazakhstan to increase cargo transit on China-Europe route

    CHINA, 2015/08/05 Kazakhstan Temir Zholy national railways company plans to transit 42,000 containers on the China-Europe-China route, and this figure is almost 40 times additional than in 2011. This remark was made by company President Askar Mamin at a conference dedicated to the Transport Workers’ Day on August 3. Mamin said that the additional volume of container transportation from China to Europe and vise-versa in 2014 allowed for an increase of revenues from transit traffic by 13.7 % compared to 2013, Kazakhstan’s Samruk-Kazyna National Welfare Fund reported.

  • Swedish King and Queen tour Airbus during state visit

    FRANCE, 2014/12/05 His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf and Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden, were given a guided tour of the A350 XWB Final Assembly Line (FAL) in Toulouse as part of their official three day National visit of France. The King and Queen were accompanied by the Swedish Minister for Employment, Ylva Johansson, the Swedish Minister for Energy, Ibrahim Baylan, the French Secretary of National Carole Delga, in charge of Trade and in presence of Swedish and French ambassadors.

  • Norwich International Airport and Aberdeen air service

    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.

  • The number of flights running between Salzburg and London is set to increase this coming winter,

    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.

  • New transatlantic services by Jet2.com.

    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.

  • Norwegian carrier

    AUSTRIA, 2013/08/11 Scandinavian airline Norwegian Air Shuttle is seeking the go-ahead from regulators to establish its long-haul subsidiary in the Republic. The airline, known as Norwegian, was reported before this year to have been considering a number of locations, inclunding the Republic, for a proposed long-haul subsidiary to get around costly regulations in its homeland. Spokesman Lassek Sandaker-Nielsen confirmed yesterday it is in talks about the possibility of obtaining an Irish Air Operator’s Certificate (AOC) for the new business. However, Mr Sandaker-Nielsen insisted that “this is not the same as opening an operational base”.

  • London's Heathrow Airport

    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.

  • The global air cargo market growth

    ANGOLA, 2013/07/03 The International Air Transport Association (IATA) says the world air cargo market increase continued to flat line in May, broadly following the trend of the last 18 months. World freight tonne kilometers increased just 0.8 % in May compared to a year ago, IATA said in an official release on Wednesday. Capacity, however, increased by 2.1 % causing load factors to fall to 44.9 % — their lowest level since the post crisis recovery. As about 60 % of world air cargo utilizes capacity in the belly of passenger aircraft, managing capacity at a time at the same time as increase in air travel is outpacing that of cargo is particularly challenging.
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