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New reports have shown that hotels all over the world are still having a hard time dealing with the economic downturn. This is due to the fact that many people are simply not traveling right now. However, it seems now that no city knows this better than Moscow and Mumbai. This news came by way of Hotels.com’s Hotel Price Index.
In a list of the top 15 cities with the biggest hotel price drops, Moscow ranked at the top of this list. This was followed by Mumbai. Apparently prices in Moscow actually went down from the average rate of $452 in [...]

Reports have come in that show that a mother has given birth on a flight flown by budget carrier AirAsia. The Malaysian woman apparently gave birth to the baby just minutes before the plane landed. It has been reported that AirAsia will be giving the child that was born on the plane free flights for life. The child was born on the plane just this past Wednesday, officials revealed on Friday.
The Malaysian lady, Liew Siaw Hsia, who gave birth on the plane was just 31 years old. A spokesman for the airline, Nazatul Mokhtar, said that the flight was [...]

New reports from Dublin Airport show that airport security staff came across a man that appeared to be trying to smuggle in a Chihuahua. The staff made this discovery after passing a handbag that the man was carrying through an x ray scanner and seeing that their appeared to be a dog hidden inside.
The customs officers at the Dublin Airport said that they first believed that the dog, which was a Chihuahua, was nothing more than a stuffed toy when the outline showed up on the monitor. However, they later found out that it was indeed a live animal [...]

The latest report on online travel in Europe shows the industry set to show a slight growth for 2009. A projected figure of 0.6% growth has been announced in the soon to be released European Online Travel Overview Edition 5 from research group PhoCusWright.
The figures are in stark contrast to the overall European travel industry which is expected to see a decline of close to 10% for this year.
Online travel companies generally have lower overheads due to a smaller wage budget and therefore have managed to stay afloat in the recession far easier than traditional operators. However, even with the [...]

‘Crash for cash’ scammers are earning an average of £16,000 per accident, according to the body set up to combat this type of fraud.
Deputy Chairman, Richard Davies, of the Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB) has estimated that fradulant ‘crash for cash’ claims amounted to about £350 million per year.
He said that ‘Crash for cash’ is becoming [...]

Business owners are turning to alternate car schemes as the recession continues to affect expenditure, with pay-as-you-go car clubs proving ever more popular.
Large corporations are frequently discarding their business fleets in the face of high fuel and maintenance costs in favour of shared arrangements.
Streetcar, a car sharing rental business that operates in seven major cities has revealed that membership has doubled in the past year with latest figures placing numbers at around 75,000. The group is aiming to reach quarter of a million members in the next three years. Streetcar was founded five years ago by partners Brett Akker and [...]

Figures that have been released by a survey, which was taken by members of Priority Pass, show that Heathrow Airport has been voted as the worst in the world. Priority Pass is one of the world’s leading independent airport lounge programs. The survey included responses from 160 countries and only respondents that took, on average, 17 flights this year were allowed to take part in the survey.
This would not have been as bad had this not been a repeat of last year’s results, as well for Heathrow Airport. Last year the airport was till recovering from the very ill fated [...]

It now seems that air rage, or bad behavior on airplanes, is on the increase. Reports go on to show that the main cause of this bad behavior on airplanes seems to be linked back to alcohol. Government figures went on to show that 3,485 reported incidents of disruptive behavior were reported aboard UK aircrafts in the months between April 2008 and March of 2009. This is a rise from the 2007 to 2008 figures, which only showed 2,702 cases reported.
The number of incidents classed as very serious rose from 31 in 2007 to 2008 to 44 in 2008 to [...]

Well, it seems like German scientists have done it again. This time, however, they have come up with a new type of technology that can allow air passengers to take liquids on planes. The good news is that airlines do not have to worry about the liquids being explosive, because the new technology developed by scientists can instantly tell if the liquid is explosive or not.
The head of a team of physicists from the Juelich research center, Knut Urban, said that the prototype that they have developed can identify explosive ingredients in a fraction of a second. Thus, this could [...]

A survey conducted by car hire giant Europcar has revealed that Britons love their cars more so than drivers across the rest of Europe.
The survey revealed that nearly three-quarters of drivers in Britain love having their own car, compared with only 60 percent of the other six countries that were surveyed.
Europcar surveyed over 5000 motorists [...]

The Mayor of London Boris Johnson has announced changes to the pricing schemes of public transport which will see widespread fare rises and reduced services with the outer boroughs of the city being hit the hardest.
The new fares will see a rate rise of 20% for users of single bus fares on the Oyster card. In addition, tube travel from the outer suburb of Richmond to inner-London will rise by 10p per journey to a cost of £3.80 each way during rush hour, with off peak fares rising by 20p to reach £2.40 each way.
Mayor Johnson has also reduced or [...]

The move by Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) to purchase Gatwick Airport has been met with mixed response but the group has promised to make extensive improvements.
Already the owners of London City Airport, GIP has promised passengers and improved airport experience after announcing their purchase for £1.51 billion of the world’s busiest single runway airport.
According to GIP they will modernise and upgrade the airport and hope to transform the airport experience for leisure and business travellers alike. The group has pointed to their success in operating London City airport as an indicator of their commitment and has claimed that they will [...]