Passengers flying between Europe and the United States should get more choice and cheaper tickets if all goes as officials plan under a new EU-US aviation pact taking effect on Sunday. After more than four years of often tense negotiations, hopes are high that the new “open skies” agreement will usher in a new era […]
BA’s botched Terminal 5 opening is sadly typical of Britain’s transport system 29 March 2008 The destinations may have been different – Norway and South Africa rather than Norfolk and Suffolk – but the breathtakingly botched opening of Heathrow Terminal 5 was the week’s second example of corporate complacency in the face of transport meltdown. […]
A new low cost airline based in Milan, Italy will be flying direct to Athens, Rhodes and Heraklion, Crete. The fares that I saw were in the neighborhood of 75 euro each way. If you can get a good fare to Milan then it’s worth looking into Volareweb to get you on to Greece. As […]
More than an hour after arriving at a gleaming new Terminal 5, and still waiting to be reunited with her luggage, a frustrated Karina Lehnen declared: “It’s a shambles”. On a day that had been trumpeted by BA and BAA executives as heralding the future in air travel, most of her fellow travellers agreed. Despite […]
Now that London Heathrow International Airport’s Terminal 5 is open for business, as many of 50 of the 90 airlines that operate from Heathrow will begin transferring operations to their new home in Terminal 5. British Airways will move 70 percent of its Heathrow operations to the new terminal, and also moving some of its […]
A massive strike in Greece is causing headaches for tens of thousands of travelers in this southeastern European country. Over 100,000 workers walked off the job in all sectors, in order to express their opposition to government plans aimed at reforming the country’s pension scheme. Well over 60 flights operated by Olympic Airlines were cancelled, […]
ATHENS: Millions of Greeks walked off their jobs Wednesday in a show of defiance against a pension overhaul. The national strike – the third since December – capped nearly a month of labor unrest that has brought power blackouts, heaps of uncollected garbage and transport disruption. Tourists bound for Greece for the Easter holidays faced […]