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A fresh two-day train strike began today (Wednesday 18 April) in France causing French rail chiefs SNCF to cancel scores of services across the country. One TGV train out of three is expected to be operating on Wednesday, as well as two TER and two Transilien trains out of every five and one Intercite train out of four. On international services, there will be four Eurostar trains out of five, one Lyria train out of thre...
Read MoreTransPennine Express (TPE) has confirmed rail improvements to take place across the North as part of its ‘transformational’ new timetable. Additional services will be introduced to enhance connectivity as part of the Great North Rail Project. Key changes: - TPE will operate on a new route from Manchester Victoria to Liverpool Lime Street (via Newton-le-Willows and Lea Green) reducing the journey time from 52 to 35 ...
Read MoreNational Air Traffic Services (NATS) are in the process of introducing a new electronic flight strip system called EXCDS in their London Terminal Control Centre, which manages the airspace over London and the South East. This system update is part of a £700m programme to cope with growing demand for air travel. According to NATS, it is essential that they modernise the tools and technologies they use to manage airspace i...
Read MoreA number of strikes are expected to affect air travellers in Italy on Saturday 24th March. Cabin crew at Blue Panorama Airlines plan to go on 24-hour strike on Saturday. A union representing ground staff at Pisa Airport, has called a four-hour strike on Saturday. The strike will run from 1 - 5pm, local times. Disruption to flight schedules is possible according to the airport. Handling staff at Marco Polo Airport i...
Read MoreTickets are now on sale for Carlisle’s first commercial flights in 25 years. Loganair will be operating flights between the Lake District and London Southend, Belfast City and Dublin from 4th June 2018. Kate Willard, head of corporate projects at the airport's parent company Stobart Group, said: "There is huge demand from London, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland to visit Carlisle, which is home to major busi...
Read MoreA multi-million pound upgrade is underway at Newcastle Airport, which is set to transform the international arrivals area. The renovations, scheduled to be completed by this summer, will bring five new ePassport gates to the airport. The self-service machines, which use facial recognition technology to check a traveller's identity against data stored in the chip in their biometric passport, are designed to make crossing ...
Read MoreTrain staff have announced two more days of strikes as a long-running industrial dispute continues in the run-up to Easter. Staff working for Arriva Rail north will walk out from 00:01 on Monday 26th March and Thursday 29th March. The workers' union RMT has been in talks with Northern (Arriva Rail North) for months in a row over plans to reduce the number of guards on trains, which it says will endanger safety. Rai...
Read MoreA union representing pilots at Air France's budget airline, Hop! has reportedly threatened a strike on Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd March in protest to the negotiation of a new trade agreement. Were it to go ahead, this would coincide with nationwide industrial action planned by railway workers on 22nd March and a strike planned by several unions at Air France on 23rd March. In addition, a union representing French a...
Read MoreAirlines have already begun to cancel flights ahead of the latest storm to hit America’s Northeast. Nearly 1,200 flights have been pre-emptively grounded for Wednesday 7th March and a further 175 for Thursday. Around 500 of those cancellations came from airline JetBlue, which operates its busiest bases at New York JFK and Boston. The wave of pre-emptive cancellations comes as the second powerful nor'easter in a week t...
Read MoreServices on some of Britain's busiest rail routes will be suspended during the Easter weekend due to engineering work. Network Rail will be carrying out more than 400 projects as part of a £118 million investment. Passengers travelling between London and Scotland on the West Coast Main Line between Saturday 31st March and Monday 2nd April will be required to use replacement buses between Glasgow and either Carlisle or Pr...
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