Rolls-Royce gives staff £2k to help with cost of living crunch June 20, 2022 Rolls-Royce is set to pay three-quarters of its workers £2,000 help with the cost of living crunch.
Qatar Airways chief: Aviation net-zero targets will be ‘very challenging’ June 20, 2022 Qatar Airways’ chief executive has suggested that the industry’s net-zero 2050 target may be hard to achieve. Despite the targets being set last year, Akbar Al Baker said in a press conference it was going to be “very challenging”. He told a press conference at the International Air Transport Associations (IATA) annual meeting of airline [...]
Airlines blame ‘shambolic’ government Covid response for travel disruption June 20, 2022 The airline industry has blamed world governments’ “shambolic” response for the ongoing travel disruption. “The cost of government mismanagement was substantial. It devastated economies, disrupted supply chains and destroyed jobs,” Willie Walsh, director general of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), said today during an industry summit. According to Willie Walsh – former chief executive [...]
Swissport threatens to sue as hubs axe hundreds of flights June 20, 2022 Airport service provider Swissport has threatened to take airports to court following the ongoing reduction in the number of daily flights at European hubs. “I think that there’s going to be some challenges, I suspect legally, to putting caps on airlines,” said chief executive Warwick Brady. “We recruited enough people for the summer schedule and they [...]
Heathrow urges airlines to cut 10 per cent of flights following luggage chaos June 20, 2022 Heathrow has urged airlines operating from terminals 2 and 3 to cut 10 per cent of flights after on Friday it reported significant luggage issues. “The technical issues affecting baggage systems have led to us making the decision to request airlines operating in terminals 2 and 3 to consolidate their schedules on Monday June 20,” [...]
Train strikes: Disruption set to cost hospitality £540m and have ‘catastrophic’ impact on night economy June 20, 2022 This week’s rail and tube strikes are set to cost the hospitality sector £540m, as the nighttime economy will suffer a “catastrophic impact”. Trade union action on the transport network this week will “set back the recovery of our high streets and deter people from going out in the evening”, leading to hundreds of million [...]
easyJet has no clue how many flights will be cancelled as airline gets caught up in travel chaos June 20, 2022 easyJet said it didn’t know how many flights it will have to cancel to best manage the ongoing travel chaos at airports across Europe, including Gatwick and Amsterdam Schiphol. The news comes after the London hub said on Friday it would be forced to axe daily flights from more than 900 to 825 and 850 [...]
Rail unions plot six months of strikes ahead of transport chaos this week June 20, 2022 Rail strikes could continue for the next six months if a pay row fails to be resolved, which may strikes all the way up until Christmas if the pay row isn’t resolved. It comes amid the largest bout of industrial action in nearly 30 years, as members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union rail [...]
Norton Motorcycles clinches £8.5m funding to build electric bikes in UK June 19, 2022 Norton Motorcycles is set to receive a £8.5m cash injection from the government in order to build new electric bikes in the UK. The chief executive of the iconic brand, which was founded in Birmingham in 1898, told The Telegraph newspaper that the UK was the ideal location for production. There was a “very high [...]
Shapps says unions ‘gunning’ for strikes as summer of discontent looms June 19, 2022 Transport secretary Grant Shapps has accused the UK’s unions of “gunning” for strikes as a major union boss warns that widespread industrial action is likely this summer. When asked if there could be a so-called summer of discontent, National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) boss Mick Lynch said: “I think there are [...]