By: Guy Taylor

Transport Reporter Guy Taylor is the Transport and Infrastructure Correspondent at City A.M. He has interviewed key figures in UK aviation and rail and has a particular interest in investigative reporting. He was highly commended in MHP's 30 to watch award for young journalists in 2025.

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HS2 chief executive quits as soaring costs and delays continue to mount

July 12, 2023

HS2 Ltd’s longest serving chief executive has announced his resignation from the project amid ongoing criticism over soaring costs and delay. 56-year old Mark Thurston – who was paid a salary of £617,300 in 2021/22 – will depart at the end of September after six and a half years at the helm. In a statement [...]
Renault and Aston Martin backer Geely to launch UK firm injecting £6bn and creating 19,000 jobs

July 12, 2023

Renault and Aston Martin backer Geely have announced the launch of a new UK-based powertrain technology company, to manufacture low-emission hybrid and internal combustion engines. An investment of up to £6bn will injected into the new outfit, which will employ 19,000 workers. The two automakers said the new group would operate 17 engine plants and [...]
Michael O’Leary slams aviation minister as Ryanair quits ‘waffling and useless’ govt advisory group

July 12, 2023

Ryanair pulled out of a key advisory group launched by the UK government to support its aviation strategy, slamming the body as a “talking shop” that delivered no real change for passengers or the sector. Michael O’Leary, the budget airlines combative CEO, said yesterday that aviation minister Baroness Vere should disband the “useless council,” instead [...]
Hostelworld has record revenues thanks to ‘bed price inflation’ and return of Aussie holidays

July 12, 2023

Hostelworld reported record revenues of €51.5m (£43.3m), on the back of resurgent demand for big trips to Asia and Australia and “bed price inflation” helped prop up its margins. The travel platform saw revenue growth of 57 per cent year on year, on the back of 3.4 million bookings across Europe, Asia and Australian markets [...]
Interview: Businesses need to get their ‘pound of flesh’ from home workers, says Addison Lee chief

July 12, 2023

“We are a real barometer for the London economy,” Liam Griffin, the boss of Addison Lee, says as we chat in the firms’ Paddington offices. The private hire taxi firm has been a stalwart of London for nearly 45 years now, ferrying customers through the boom of the early 2000s, the financial crash of 2008 [...]
Bolt to relocate driver hub to the City as UK users hit 9 million milestone

July 12, 2023

Ride-hailing platform Bolt has relocated its driver hub to a city centre location on the back of racing demand for its taxis, City A.M. has learned. Bolt told City A.M. that it has relocated the hub from Chiswick to Bermondsey due to soaring passenger demand and increase in drivers, revealing that it now has 100,000 [...]
London business backs Gatwick’s £2.2bn second runway proposals

July 11, 2023

London business groups have backed Gatwick’s proposals for a £2.2bn second runway, arguing the expansion plans would be a boon for the capital’s connectivity, jobs and trade. Last week, the West Sussex hub submitted proposals to the UK Planning Inspectorate to bring its emergency northern runway into routine use, forecasting this would create 14,000 new [...]
Heathrow: UK-US flights power summer travel surge – but it’s STILL 200,000 behind pre-pandemic levels

July 11, 2023

Heathrow Airport reported seven million passengers passed through the hub last month thanks to UK-US flights, a massive uptick on last year but still 200,000 behind pre-pandemic levels. The figure, which comes as airports and airlines are in full swing with summer travel, still falls short of the equivalent month pre-pandemic – but marks a [...]
Gatwick’s £2.2bn second runway would boost important long-haul flying, says airport chief

July 10, 2023

Gatwick’s £2.2bn expansion plans represent an “opportunity for us to encourage more long-haul flying,” its chief executive has said, as the West Sussex airport looks to muscle in on Heathrow’s dominance in the long-haul market. “Certainly this will be an opportunity for us to encourage more long haul flying to and from Gatwick and to [...]
Easyjet cancels 1,700 summer flights amid French air traffic controller strikes

July 10, 2023

180,000 holidaymakers have been hit by Easyjet summer flight cancellations this morning, as the airline battles with the ongoing impacts of French Air Traffic Controller (ATC) walk-outs and the war in Ukraine. Around 1,700 departures in July, August and September are set to be grounded, with the majority of flights affected at Gatwick Airport, where [...]

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